Data Scientist II, 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

Introduction to team

Expedia Product & Technology builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.   

This Data Scientist II will sit in the Traveler Diagnostics pod within the Product Performance and Experience Insights team. Our aim is to provide a coherent and holistic assessment of product performance across Expedia Group. We drive and facilitate a swift move towards a suite of common measurement for both behavioral and experiential metrics.

In this role, you will:

• Monitor and understand performance drivers of our experience quality metrics across our brands and product lines, to create recommendations of actions to be shared across the business

• Create and evangelize methodologies to combine our product funnel data with customer experience signals and qualitative data

• Collaborate with the wider product analytics team to create a deeper understanding of product performance

• Act as a quality of experience SME within the Measurement, Research, and Analytics Products team, working with our engineering and data visualization teams to create a suite of experience metric reporting products

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree within a quantitative field such as mathematics, physics, engineering, operations research, data science, or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience

• A minimum of two years of related professional work experience in a team environment

• Experience in web analytics using tools such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics, using large datasets and proficient in SQL and another programming language (e.g. R, Python)

• Experience creating and analyzing drivers of performance metrics with a demonstrated ability to work through complex business problems and create actionable outputs

• Excellent verbal, written and data visualization skills

• Excellent logical thinking

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $112,000.00 to $156,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $179,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

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