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Data Scientist II (Marketing Testing)

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2 months ago
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Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Data Scientist II (Marketing Testing)

Introduction to team

If you’re as passionate as we are about using data to drive positive change and build an outstanding marketing experience, this may be the role for you!

We are looking for a hardworking and intelligent individual to fill the Data Scientist II role (Marketing Testing) within the Marketing Measurement Analytics team. You will provide powerful insights and recommendations that will shape how our EG brands advertise to customers. This is a great opportunity to join a fun, exciting, data driven and customer centric company. You will be instrumental in defining a relevant, dynamic and inspiring Incrementality and Testing strategy, powered by data insight!

You will work closely with the wider team and marketing partners to accelerate the improvement of many different areas within Testing and Incrementality. For example; the development and implementation of cutting-edge test measurement tools, or designing and evaluating incrementality tests.

In this role, you will:

  • Apply your knowledge with SQL, Python or R, or any other major ML programming language

  • Conduct hypotheses testing and design complex experiments

  • Demonstrate understanding of business domain and can recommend model changes, constantly evolving information and requirements

  • Clearly and confidently articulate decision-making rationale, solutions, methodologies and frameworks to team members and both technical and non-technical partners

  • Conduct exploratory data profiling techniques, common summary descriptive statistics etc.

  • Pick analytically valid approaches, appropriate in terms of level of effort, favoring iterative delivery that tackle the objective, not the ask

Experience and qualifications:

  • Bachelor's or Master's or PhD degree in Mathematics, Science, Statistics or related Technical field; or equivalent related professional experience (e.g. driving significant and sustained change and performance improvement from data-driven insights)

  • Demonstrates statistical competency and requires limited supervision

  • Familiar with SQL, Python or R, or any other major ML programming language

  • Experienced in the fundamentals of big data architecture (streaming events, data lakes, analytics engines) and relational database models

  • Display strong domain knowledge, business acumen and critical reasoning skills

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We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

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