Data Scientist III, Analytics - Platform Analytics

Expedia, Inc.; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel technology company in Camden Town is seeking a Data Scientist to generate insights that enhance traveler experiences and drive product growth. The role involves applying statistical methods, designing experiments, and collaborating with diverse teams. Ideal candidates have a strong background in data analytics and are proficient in SQL, Python, or R. This position offers a competitive salary and a range of employee benefits including travel perks and career development resources.

Benefits

Exciting travel perks

Generous time-off

Flexible work model

Career development resources

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of work experience or 4+ years in a comparable data analytics role.
• Expertise in scientific rigor and statistical methods.
• Ability to automate repeatable work for efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Identify insights to improve traveler experience and drive product growth.
• Design complex experiments and apply statistical methods.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams on business challenges.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Data visualization

Statistical techniques

Education

University degree in Mathematics, Science, Statistics, or Engineering

Job description

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:

What you'll do:

• You will be an 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 aggression, multivariate analysis.
• You will display advanced domain (i.e., travel, online retail) knowledge, 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 is concise in what's included. Present clearly and engagingly and anticipates questions.
• You will frame Expedia's most complex business problems as an analytics problem and 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.
• 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.
• £67,982 per year - estimated?

Qualifications

• University degree in Mathematics, Science, Statistics, Engineering degree with 2-4 years work experience or 4+ years of experience in a comparable data analytics role with relevant experience.

Full time NEW 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.