Expedia Group - Data Scientist III - Analytics - Insurance & Assurance Analytics Team

Job Description

Data Scientist III, Analytics

Are you excited by the opportunity to pioneer the future of travel? Do you want to redefine the way people plan, search for, and book their travel? At Expedia Group, we believe that travel brings the world together, and we are passionate about the endless possibilities. The Insurance and Assurance group at Expedia team is responsible for managing the Insurance P&L and driving its strategy and business development efforts across the Expedia Group globally. We deliver millions of dollars of incremental revenue making a direct and meaningful impact the company's bottom-line. At the same time, we increase customers' confidence to book travel and make difference in their lives.

This role is an excellent opportunity to join the Insurance and Assurance Analytics Team where we are passionate about delivering outstanding user experience! We power and deliver product analytics, user behavior analysis, experimentation, and visualization services that enable highly tailored and optimized experiences using the scientific methods and applied insights.

We're looking for a highly motivated individual to join our team to help us formulate business strategy and to deliver impactful analytics insights. If you enjoy using data to build business cases, solve business problems, improve ongoing business activities, and to work on a team that functions as the "business owner" you will fit right in. In this role, you will use your analytical and business skills to inspire product, engineering, finance and customer support, and our strategic partners to prioritize, implement and scale our product ideas

What You'll Do:

- Provide strategic analysis and insights for the insurance and Assurance business, while actively looking for opportunities to grow the business

- Apply your expertise in data modeling, quantitative analysis, data mining, data visualization with a goal of improving customer experience and business results with a religious focus on impactful analytics, steward product team to drive insights

- Report and analyze business performance from a product, marketing, and customer perspective

- Own end to end process in evaluating A/B or multivariate tests to improve learning; proactively uncover opportunities and recommend new features for test and learn; evaluate and apply alternative methods to supplement randomized testing

- Deep-dive into product tests for insurance and Assurance team to deliver additional insights

- Analyze business opportunities across different brands in our portfolio

- Deliver impactful analysis based on robust economic, financial, and statistical analysis

- Function independently, assessing existing and upcoming business needs

Who You Are:

- Bachelor's, Masters or PhD degree in Mathematics, Science, Statistics, Engineering or 5+ years' data analytics experience in a business context

- Strong analytical/modeling skills with ability to convert raw data into measurable insights

- Able to structure / work on data exploration problems, with innovative ways and solutions, bringing to bear strong reporting and data visualization skills

- Strong hands-on experience in SQL

- Proficient in building data visualizations (Tableau, Looker, etc.)

- Intermediate (or better) knowledge of Statistics

- Experience with R, python, or other coding language a plus

- Experience with web analytics tools such as Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics a plus

- Experience in modeling selection, building and evaluation