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Data Scientist III
Introduction to team
The Traveler Business Team builds and drives growth for our global consumer businesses—Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo. This division creates compelling and differentiated traveler value for each brand by setting the strategic vision, operating strategy, and plan. Responsibilities include investment allocation and prioritization, P&L accountability, and leading cross-functional teams across Expedia Group, who are all held accountable to a single scorecard.
We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join the Platform Analytics team that is working on Performance.
As a Data Scientist, you will help identify insights to improve the traveler experience and drive product growth. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team on a wide range of problems. You will bring scientific rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of business growth and product development.
What you'll do
- You will be expert with SQL, Python or R. Any other major machine learning programming language is a nice to have.
- You will design complex experiments and apply common methods such as linear and non-linear regression, multivariate analysis.
- You will display advanced domain knowledge (e.g., travel, online retail), business acumen (understanding the underlying business objectives) and critical reasoning skills.
- You will know and apply data visualization principles consistently resulting in clear and consistent outcomes.
- You will influence action and results, through clear writing, in an accessible way for a wide audience. Structure presentations around a clear narrative and be concise in what’s included. Present clearly and engagingly and anticipate questions.
- You will frame Expedia's most complex business problems as an analytics problem and a concrete set of analytical tasks.
- You will automate repeatable work to improve efficiency and scalability.
- Provides guidance and coaching to other team members on statistical techniques.
Who you are
- University degree in Mathematics, Science, Statistics, Engineering with 2-4 years of work experience or 4+ years of experience in a comparable data analytics role with relevant experience.
- A high performing individual contributor who consistently applies - and sometimes enhances - the analytics capabilities, principles and playbooks to solve complex business issues and opportunities.
- Develop and drive significant and sustained change and performance improvement from data-driven insights in a number of different areas or contexts.
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