Senior Data Scientist

KAYAK; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 55.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Join a forward-thinking travel company as a Senior Data Scientist, where your expertise will enhance marketing strategies and drive data-informed decisions. In this dynamic role, you'll manage comprehensive experiments, develop advanced analytics techniques, and collaborate with marketing leaders to optimize spending. This innovative firm values your contributions and offers a supportive environment for professional growth. With the opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 20 days a year, focus on mental well-being, and enjoy generous vacation time, this position is perfect for those passionate about data and travel. Embrace the chance to make a significant impact in the travel industry!

Leistungen

Work from anywhere for 20 days

Company-paid therapy sessions

Generous paid vacation

Paid parental leave

Free lunch 2 days per week

Pension plan contributions

Public transportation subsidies

Monthly social events

Bike leasing program

Leadership development

Qualifikationen

• Advanced degree in Data Science or Statistics required.
• Extensive experience with SQL and data manipulation is essential.

Aufgaben

• Manage end-to-end experimentation and analyze results.
• Develop models to optimize marketing spend effectively.

Kenntnisse

Data Manipulation

Data Extraction

Python

R

Story-telling

Causal Inference

Experimentation Methods

Time-Series Analysis

Econometrics

Regression Models

Ausbildung

Masters in Data Science

PhD in Statistics

Tools

SQL

Google Analytics

Jobbeschreibung

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

The Marketing Measurement team's mission is to improve KAYAK's ability to measure the efficiency of marketing efforts. This role works closely with marketing leaders to make better data-informed strategic marketing decisions.

As a Senior Data Scientist on this team, you will:

1. Manage end-to-end experimentation from formulating hypotheses, experiment design to collecting the right data, doing power analysis to finally implementing and analyzing experiment results.
2. Support initiatives towards building a robust framework for efficiently creating and evaluating creative, bidding, and landing page experiments.
3. Develop new models and advanced analytics techniques to measure and optimize the marketing spend in a robust manner.
4. Support the development of less senior scientists, collaborating with team members to assure timely delivery of high-quality work.
5. Build standardized and scalable solutions, and lead from the front in setting up the best practices.

Please apply if you have:

1. Advanced degree (Masters, PhD) in Data Science, Statistics or a related field.
2. Extensive experience with data manipulation and extraction using relational databases (SQL).
3. Ability to write high-quality, scalable, maintainable code (Python, R).
4. Strong story-telling and presentation skills to understand and communicate in the language of business partners, mostly within Marketing.
5. Strong foundation in experimentation methods and causal inference techniques.
6. Experience in marketing science measurement methodologies like Causal impact, geo-lift on Google, and Marketing mix models.
7. Proactive work style, needing minimal guidance and demonstrating good judgment.
8. Has a keen sense of success criteria and demonstrates success through end-to-end QA. Independently adheres to strong testing and validation principles.
9. Passionate about large data sets in marketing, finance, and economics. Skilled in paid marketing data, time-series analysis, econometrics, and regression models.

Benefits:

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year.
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth.
  • Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace.
  • Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!).
  • No meeting Fridays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday.
• Paid volunteer time.
• Focus on your career growth:
  • Development Dollars.
  • Leadership development.
  • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings.
• Travel Discounts.
• Employee Resource Groups.
• 6 weeks paid vacation.
• Free lunch 2 days per week.
• Pension plan contributions.
• Public transportation subsidies.
• Bike leasing program.
• Monthly social events, massages, Thursday happy hours, sports teams.
• An awesome office in Friedrichshain, Berlin.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At OpenTable/KAYAK, we aspire to be a workplace that fosters inclusion and reflects the diverse communities we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and perspectives is critical to innovation and to how we deliver great experiences for our users, partners, and teams. We strive to be an open and welcoming environment so that no matter who you are, you can be yourself.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation(s).