Data Scientist III, Product 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.

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge technology to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential to 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 we believe that when one of us wins, we all win.

We offer a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources. All of this is designed to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

About the role

Are you passionate about data, analytics, and collaborating with top talent to tackle complex problems? If you're motivated to make an immediate impact on reimagining travel through insightful recommendations that drive improvements, we want to speak with you!

We are seeking an experienced analytics professional to join our AI Agent Product Analytics Team, supporting a portfolio of some of the world’s leading online travel brands.

This is a mid-level individual contributor role, partnering with product managers and focusing on user experience optimization via GenAI-driven personalization. As a Data Scientist, you’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to solve a wide range of problems. You will bring scientific rigor and statistical methods to the challenges of business growth and product development.

This role supports key business decisions throughout the product development lifecycle to improve the user experience for millions of Expedia customers. You’ll be responsible for uncovering customer friction points, hypothesis generation and prioritization, experiment design, unbiased test analysis, actionable recommendations, and product optimization.

If you are a self-starter who has demonstrated success using analytics to drive innovation and user engagement, this role is for you.

In this role you will

• Apply expertise in quantitative analysis, machine learning, data mining, and data visualization to improve customer experience and business outcomes, with a focus on impactful analytics

• Guide product teams to actionable insights

• Own end-to-end testing excellence, including evaluating A/B and multivariate (MVT) tests, identifying opportunities, and recommending new features for test-and-learn initiatives

• Evaluate and apply alternative methods to supplement randomized testing

• Develop metrics frameworks for your product; build accurate, user-friendly dashboards/reports; and collaborate on goal setting, performance reviews, and strategic planning

• Take initiative to identify current and potential problems and recommend optimal solutions based on trade-offs

Experience and qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in quantitative analysis to solve business problems

• Bachelor’s degree in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to break down complex business scenarios

• Experience with large datasets and proficiency in SQL or programming languages such as R or Python

• Excellent communicator with the ability to tell compelling stories using data

• Solid understanding of statistics and hypothesis testing (e.g., confidence intervals, regression, time series, clustering, factor analysis)

• Experience with visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)

• Familiarity with Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics is a plus

• Detail-oriented with a strong curiosity and passion for making an impact

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.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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