Data Scientist II, Analytics

Expedia Group, Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in global travel is seeking a Data Scientist II to join their Product Analytics team. This role focuses on analyzing performance metrics and understanding product performance to drive strategic decisions. The ideal candidate will have a strong quantitative background, experience with data analysis tools, and a passion for data-driven insights. Join a vibrant team that values diversity and fosters an inclusive culture while shaping the future of travel.

Benefits

Flexible Work Model

Generous Time-Off

Parental Leave

Career Development Resources

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in a quantitative field.
• Experience creating and analyzing performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Carry out weekly analytics of core performance metrics.
• Identify opportunities to leverage advanced analytics methods.
• Understand the interaction of key metrics.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Logical Thinking

Data Analysis

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

SQL

Adobe Analytics

Google Analytics

R

Python

Job description

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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