Data Scientist II, Analytics

ENGINEERINGUK; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the travel industry seeks a Data Scientist II to join their Product Analytics team. You will analyze performance metrics, identify opportunities for improvement, and collaborate with product teams to enhance user experience. The ideal candidate has a strong quantitative background and experience with data analysis tools. Join us to shape the future of travel and enjoy a full benefits package.

Benefits

Travel perks

Generous time-off

Parental leave

Flexible work model

Career development resources

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in industry or equivalent.
• Experience creating and analysing drivers of performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Carry out weekly analytics of core performance metrics.
• Identify opportunities to leverage advanced analytics methods.
• Conduct exploratory analysis to identify friction across the funnel.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Logical Thinking

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Master's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Adobe Analytics

Google Analytics

R

Python

Job description

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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, Product Analytics

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.

The Performance Insights and Measurement Strategy team leads product performance related strategic analytics and customer experience advanced insight, ensuring that top level understanding of performance and the resulting decisions are being made are off the back of sound data and analytics principles. This results in simplification, efficiency improvement, consistency and clear accountability on product performance measurement.

As a data scientist II in the team, you will work closely with our Brands and Product teams on our efforts to understand performance of our products. Examples include investigating weekly performance trends alongside automating our capabilities for understanding and detecting changes in core metrics.

In this role, you will:

• Carrying out weekly analytics of core performance metrics with a focus on understanding the drivers of conversion and experience
• Identifying opportunities to leverage advanced analytics methods to develop a deeper understanding of performance for example through increased segmentation of metrics
• Understanding the interaction of key metrics and their relationship with strategic and performance goals
• Exploratory analysis to identify friction across the funnel impacting metrics, and quantify the business impact of this
• Working with the wider product analytics team at Expedia Group to get a deeper understanding of our performance

Experience and Qualifications:

• Excellent logical thinking, a very strong background (Bachelor`s/Master`s degree) in a quantitative field such as mathematics, physics, engineering, operations research, data science or similar and 2 years of experience in industry or equivalent.
• Experience creating and analysing drivers of performance metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to work through complex business problems and implement suitable solutions.
• Creative and analytical in thinking with a love for data, to both disagree with and convince senior partners backed by data.
• Experience in web analytics using tools such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics.
• Experience with large datasets and proficient in SQL and another programming language (e.g. R, Python).

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