Applied Sr Data Scientist - Fintech Foundation

Hopper; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel fintech company seeks an Applied Sr Data Scientist to optimize pricing and product construction. Responsibilities include collaborating with product teams, automating ML pipelines, and analyzing performance. Ideal candidates will have a quantitative degree and 2+ years of experience in data analysis and predictive modeling. The role is based in Los Angeles and offers a competitive salary package including equity. Come join us on our journey!

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pre-IPO equity packages

100% health insurance premiums

Generous parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Carrot Cash travel stipend

Access to co-working space

Flexible work-from-home stipend

Open communication with management

Qualifications

• Two or more years experience applying data analysis and predictive modeling skills in a fast-paced business environment.
• Strong coding skills with SQL and Python.
• Excellent communication skills and creative problem solving ability.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with cross-functional product teams to build a detailed understanding of business requirements.
• Data engineering to create appropriate datasets for analysis.
• Implementing automated ML training pipelines.

Skills

Data analysis

Predictive modeling

SQL

Python

Communication skills

Education

BSc or MSc in a quantitative field

Tools

Machine Learning

A/B Testing

Job description

Applied Sr Data Scientist - Fintech Foundation

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Applied Sr Data Scientist - Fintech Foundation

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About The Job

Hopper is continually redefining how people travel, combining a best-in-class travel agency with a portfolio of proprietary fintech offerings that give our customers peace of mind when booking travel.

About The Job

Hopper is continually redefining how people travel, combining a best-in-class travel agency with a portfolio of proprietary fintech offerings that give our customers peace of mind when booking travel.

More than 100M monthly active users are exposed to our products through our mobile app and a growing list of partners such as CapitalOne, Air Canada, and Spirit Airlines. With a real-time feed of 50B+ priced itineraries daily along with more than ten years of history and multiple external data sources, we have unparalleled insight about pricing and demand trends.

This is a unique opportunity to join our growing Fintech Foundation team. We’re responsible for optimizing pricing for all ancillary products we sell, balancing customer demand with the financial risks we take on. We help our product teams deliver new fintech products to market faster, respond rapidly to changing market conditions, run continuous champion-challenger testing on product construction levers, and maintain our growing portfolio of pricing models across dozens of partners.

As an applied data scientist you will play a key role in growing our fintech business through innovative pricing and product construction, operated at scale across dozens of partners.

What Would Your Day-to-day Look Like

• Collaborating with cross-functional product teams to build a detailed understanding of business requirements and product construction as it relates to pricing.
• Data engineering to create appropriate datasets for analysis and modeling.
• Implementing automated, reusable ML training pipelines
• Creating and pushing models to production
• Monitoring pricing models to identify weaknesses and opportunities
• Running A/B tests on new data sources, improved algorithms, and different product levers.
• Responding to ad hoc requests from our business partners to analyze historical performance and deep-dive into anomalies or diagnose the impact of external events.
  
  

An Ideal Candidate Has

• A BSc or MSc in a highly quantitative field like math, physics, statistics, or economics.
• Two or more years experience applying data analysis and predictive modeling skills in a fast-paced business environment.
• Excellent communication skills and creative problem solving ability.
• Strong coding skills with SQL and Python.
• A highly pragmatic approach that values business impact over statistical nuance.
  
  

Perks And Benefits Of Working With Us

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
• Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan.
• Hopper offers life, short term and long term disability coverage.
• HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses.
• All employees and dependents have access to Dialogue’s telemedicine services, anytime, anywhere.
• All employees have access to an RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax withdrawals per pay.
• Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Carrot Cash travel stipend.
• Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
• Open communication with management and company leadership.
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
  
  

More About Hopper

At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally – powering Hopper’s mobile app, website and our B2B business, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions). By leveraging massive amounts of data and advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to bring transparency, flexibility and savings to travelers globally. We have developed several unique fintech solutions that address everything from pricing volatility to trip disruptions – helping people travel better and save more on their trips.

The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and continues to capture market share around the world. he Hopper app has been downloaded over 120 million times and has become largely popular among younger travelers – with 70% of its users being Gen Z and millennials.

While everyone knows us as the Gen Z and Millennial travel app, Hopper has evolved to become much more than that. In recent years, we’ve grown into a travel fintech provider, commerce platform, and global travel agency that powers some of the world’s largest brands.

Through HTS, our B2B division, the company supercharges its partners’ direct channels by integrating our fintech products on their sites or powering end-to-end travel portals. Today, our partners include leading travel brands like Capital One, Nubank, Air Canada, and many more.

Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:

• Billions of dollars worth of travel and travel fintech are sold through Hopper and HTS’ channels every year.
• Our fintech products – including Cancel for Any Reason and Flight Disruption Assistance – have exceptionally strong CSAT because the terms are always clear, and customers receive instant, no-questions-asked resolutions.
• Almost 30% of our app customers purchase at least one fintech product when making a booking; and consumers are 1.6x more likely to repurchase if they add fintech to their booking vs if they booked just travel.
  
  

Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched a B2B initiative, HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), which represents more than 75% of the business.

Through HTS, any travel provider (airlines, hotels, banks, travel agencies, etc.) can integrate and seamlessly distribute Hopper’s fintech or travel inventory on their direct channels. As its first HTS partnership, the company partnered with Capital One to co-develop Capital One Travel, a new travel portal designed specifically for cardholders. Other HTS partners include Air Canada, Uber, CommBank, Nubank, Flair Airlines and many more.

Hopper has been named the #1 most innovative company in travel by Fast Company Hopper has been downloaded over 120 million times and continues to have millions of new installs each month. Hopper is now the #3 largest online travel agencies in North America and 70% of our app customers are Gen-Z and millennials travelers.

Hopper has raised over $750 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world. HTS is primed to continue its growth as the leading travel ecommerce provider in a $1 trillion online shopping category. The Hopper app and website will also continue to be the preferred travel provider for Gen Z and Millennials..

Come take off with us!

Compensation Range: $110K - $375K

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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