Data Scientist Ii, 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.

Data Scientist II, Analytics

Intro to team
The Product Team creates high-quality end-to-end experiences for travelers, partners, and Expedia Group. Our focus on customer-centric innovation enables us to develop products that build loyalty and repeat business. We partner closely with teams across Expedia Group to drive growth and achieve results for our customers and the company.

In this role you will

• Partner closely with Product Managers, User Experience, and Technology teams to solve business and customer problems using data

• Analyze customer behavior across the property experience journey, including property content, merchandising, pricing presentation, and conversion performance

• Use SQL, Python, R, or similar tools to extract, structure, transform, and analyze large datasets from multiple sources

• Frame clear business questions, define success metrics, and connect analysis to product decisions

• Design, evaluate, and interpret experiments, including A/B tests, pre/post analyses, and other approaches that help answer product and business questions

• Identify friction points in the customer journey and generate actionable insights and recommendations for stakeholders

• Support model building and analytics projects by applying statistical techniques such as regression, clustering, and descriptive analysis
• Leverage statistical skillset to solve varied business challenges

• Select the right measurement approach for the problem and recommend simple or more complex experiment designs as needed

• Interpret results using sound statistical judgment, including understanding trade-offs between statistical significance and practical significance

• Create clear, effective visualizations and communicate findings in a way that is meaningful to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Work iteratively with stakeholders to refine requirements, define scope, and evolve analyses based on new learnings

• Follow best practices for reproducibility, documentation, data quality checks, and query performance optimization

• Collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, geographically distributed team working across India and London
  

Technologies we use:

• SQL

• Python

• R

• Experimentation and A/B testing frameworks

• Data visualization and analytics tools

Experience and qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative or technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience

• 2+ years of relevant experience in data analytics, product analytics, or a comparable analytics role

• Demonstrated experience delivering data-driven insights and recommendations that influenced stakeholder decisions or improved business performance

• Intermediate experience using SQL and either Python, R, or similar tools for data analysis, data transformation, and visualization

• Understanding of product analytics fundamentals, including framing clear problem statements, selecting the right success metrics, and translating analysis into business action

• Working knowledge of statistics and probability, including false positives, statistical significance, regression analysis, and analysis of variance

• Experience designing or analyzing experiments such as A/B tests, with an understanding of experiment design, sample sizing, guardrails, and trade-offs

• Understanding of common analytical and modeling approaches, including linear regression, logistic regression, and clustering, and the types of data needed to support them

• Ability to combine data from different sources and create structured datasets or basic workflows to support analytics and modeling

• Proficient communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to present insights and recommendations clearly to stakeholders

• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and business judgment

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, prioritize well, and collaborate with distributed stakeholders and teammates

• Stakeholder management skills and a proactive, can-do approach to problem solving

Please note that this role is only available in Bangalore, in alignment with our flexible work model which requires employees to be in-office at least three days a week.

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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