Product Data Scientist – Search Analytics

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.

About the Team

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.

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join the Product Analytics team that is working on Search Products. 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

• 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 regression, multivariate analysis.

• You will display advanced domain knowledge (i.e., travel, online retail), 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. You will structure presentations around a clear narrative and be concise in what's included. You will present clearly and engagingly, and anticipate questions.

• You will frame Expedia's most complex business problems as an analytics problem and a concrete set of analytical tasks.

• You will automate repeatable work to improve efficiency and scalability.

• You will provide guidance and coaching to other team members on statistical techniques.

Who You Are

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

• A high-performing individual contributor who consistently applies—and sometimes enhances—the analytics capabilities, principles, and playbooks to solve complex business issues and opportunities.

• Able to develop and drive significant and sustained change and performance improvement from data-driven insights in a number of different areas or contexts.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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