Manager, Data Scientist, Travel Intelligence, Hotels

Capital One; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One in New York is seeking a Data Scientist to join the Travel Intelligence team. You will own end-to-end ML initiatives in the Hotels domain, from data processing to model deployment, influencing what customers see and pay.

You will collaborate with product and engineering, apply open-source tools on large-scale datasets, and translate complex analyses into measurable business impact, driving trip and pricing decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field plus 6 years of analytics experience.
• Master’s degree in a quantitative field or MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 4 years of analytics experience.
• Strong experience with Python and big data stacks.
• Experience with cloud platforms and open-source ML tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love.
• Leverage technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark — to reveal insights from large data sets.
• Build machine learning models through all phases of development: design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation.
• Translate complexity of your work into tangible business goals.

Skills

Python

Conda

AWS

H2O

Spark

Open-source

Cloud computing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree (quantitative) + 6 years analytics

Master’s Degree or MBA with quantitative concentration + 4 years analytics

Job description

Data is at the center of everything we do. As a startup, we disrupted the credit card industry by individually personalizing every credit card offer using statistical modeling and the relational database, cutting edge technology in 1988! Fast-forward a few years, and this little innovation and our passion for data has skyrocketed us to a Fortune 200 company and a leader in the world of data-driven decision-making. As a Data Scientist at Capital One, you’ll be part of a team that’s leading the next wave of disruption at a whole new scale, using the latest in computing and machine learning technologies and operating across billions of customer records to unlock the big opportunities that help everyday people save money, time and agony in their financial lives.

Team Description

You will be a member of the Travel Intelligence team, a high-impact group dedicated to building the “intelligent core” of Capital One Travel. Our mission is to transform vast amounts of travel data into personalized, seamless experiences for our customers. Specifically, this role focuses on the Hotels domain, where you will own the end-to-end technical strategy for Search & Sort and Pricing Optimization. We operate in a “green-field” environment, moving from offline, historical data models to sophisticated, real-time Machine Learning solutions. As part of Travel Intelligence, you won't just be building models; you'll be partnering closely with Product and Engineering to define key metrics (like MOB and Reference Price coverage) and architecting the systems that determine what our customers see and what they pay. This is a unique opportunity to apply the 80:20 rule—starting with pragmatic, high-impact wins while simultaneously building the business case and technical roadmap for the future of ML at Capital One Travel.

Role Description

In this role, you will:

• Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver a product customers love
• Leverage a broad stack of technologies — Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark, and more — to reveal the insights hidden within huge volumes of numeric and textual data
• Build machine learning models through all phases of development, from design through training, evaluation, validation, and implementation
• Flex your interpersonal skills to translate the complexity of your work into tangible business goals

The Ideal Candidate is:

• Customer first. You love the process of analyzing and creating, but also share our passion to do the right thing. You know at the end of the day it’s about making the right decision for our customers.
• Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You’re not afraid to share a new idea.
• Technical. You’re comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further. You have hands‑on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
• A data guru. “Big data” doesn’t faze you. You have the skills to retrieve, combine, and analyze data from a variety of sources and structures. You know understanding the data is often the key to great data science.

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:
• A Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) plus 6 years of experience performing data analytics
• A Master’s Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field) or an MBA with a quantitative concentration plus 4 years of experience performing data analytics