Data Science Analyst III, Product 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 II, Product Analytics

Are you passionate about uncovering opportunities to improve the customer experience through the power of data? If you are intellectually curious, analytical, and excel in translating data insights into recommendations, this job is perfect for you!

At Expedia Group, we believe that travel brings the world together, and we are passionate about the endless possibilities. This role is a great opportunity to join our global Product Analytics and Experimentation team where we are user experience optimisation obsessed!

We are seeking an experienced analytics professional to join our Global Product Analytics Team. This will be an individual contributor role partnering with product managers within the Checkout product team. This role will be supporting key business decisions throughout the Checkout product development lifecycle that improves the user experience for millions of Expedia customers. This will involve uncovering customer friction points, hypothesis generation and prioritisation, experimentation design, valid and impartial test analysis and recommendations.

What you will do:

• Be a go-to expert on Checkout user behaviour data

• Influence Checkout product decisions and roadmap by crafting insightful data-driven stories

• Set measurement framework and targets to support Checkout strategy

• Provide requirements for Checkout data capture that helps us understand and optimize our Product

• Lead Checkout end to end a/b testing: from discovery analysis, to test design, test evaluation and recommendations for future iterations

• Proactively engage with Checkout product managers to define upcoming project needs and maintain regular communication on progress

• Get alignment across the org by sharing key Checkout analytics updates and involving the broader Analytics, Product, and Business teams for decision-making when appropriate

• Keep up-to-date on developments in the industry to help drive Expedia Group’s innovation

Who you are:

• Excellent logical thinking, a very strong background (Bachelor’s/Master’s degree) in a quantitative field such as mathematics, physics, engineering, operations research, data science or similar and 4 years of experience in industry or equivalent.

• Ability to communicate technical concepts concisely and clearly to senior level executives

• Demonstrated ability to work through complex business problems and implement suitable solutions.

• Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment and be comfortable with ambiguity

• Experience creating and analysing drivers of performance metrics.

• Experience with large data sets and proficient in SQL or other programming languages (R, Python)

• Expertise in Web Analytics, such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics Premium

• Advance knowledge of experimentation techniques like AB Tests, Causal Inference, multivariate testing

• Ability to interpret machine learning models such as propensity modelling and forecasting techniques

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