Data Scientist I – Pricing Analytics

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We provide 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 to fuel our employees’ passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Data Scientist I – Pricing Analytics

The Traveler Business Team has a mission to deliver the most convenient, rewarding, and memorable ways for people to travel and explore the world. This division has responsibility to build and drive the growth of our global consumer business across our Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, and Portfolio brands, and across all our lines of businesses including Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Air, Car, Packages, and Insurtech. 

Introduction to team:

The Data Science, Analytics team works with cutting-edge tools and technology to deliver high-quality outputs whilst meeting ongoing and overlapping deadlines within short time constraints. This diverse, international function requires a curious, data-driven analytical thinker with a passionate drive for learning and improvement to join their rapidly-growing team as a Data Scientist.

You will be responsible for the end-to-end analytics for a large pricing program.

In this role you will:

• Deep dive into various pricing-related datasets to uncover patterns and suggest clear optimization paths

• Analyze online experiences (A/B tests) leveraging industry best practices

• Leverage and contribute to a best-in-class analytical toolkit to extract insights and make data-driven recommendations

• Develop and maintain clear and user-friendly dashboards and reports to track and analyze KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and performance metrics

• Train stakeholders on their usage

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify key business challenges and provide analytical insights and recommendations to support decision-making

• Drive action to improve pricing KPIs, utilizing the 80:20 rule to focus effort on most impactful results

• Demonstrate creativity and persistence in overcoming roadblocks

• Be curious and constantly keep an eye on key metrics and trends to proactively suggest actions or highlight business opportunities

Experience and qualifications:

• You have a Master’s degree in a technical or numerical discipline, such as engineering, economics, statistics or a related field, or equivalent related professional experience

• Mastery of SQL language is a must-have

• Proficiency in Python or R

• Solid business acumen, making connections between data and insights

• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving abilities

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner

• Knowledge in statistics and online experimentation is preferred but not required

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