Data Scientist I, Competitive Intelligence

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction to the Team 

Yield and Analytics helps partners, including hotels, vacation rentals, airlines, destination marketing organizations and more, deliver excellent traveler and B2B experiences. We drive growth for our partners and the Expedia Group marketplace through competitive supply and our leading advertising and travel media network. 

The Competitive Intelligence team uses data, statistical analysis and clear storytelling to help Expedia Group understand market dynamics, competitor activity and opportunities in travel advertising. As a Data Scientist I, you will work with experienced analysts and business partners to turn data into practical insights that support better decisions for our customers, partners and business. 

Make an Impact 

This is an early-career opportunity for someone who is curious about data and motivated to build a strong foundation in analytics. You will receive guidance from your manager and collaborate with analytics teammates while developing your ability to solve well-defined business questions and communicate findings to audiences with different levels of technical knowledge. 

In this role, you will: 

• Extract, structure and combine data from multiple sources to support analysis and model development. 

• Apply descriptive statistics, probability and basic statistical methods to investigate business questions, with guidance from your manager and senior teammates. 
• Build clear charts, dashboards and reports that follow sound visualization principles and communicate insights rather than data alone. 

• Perform data quality checks, document analytical code and participate in peer reviews to help ensure reliable results. 

• Collaborate transparently with stakeholders and analytics teammates to gather information, learn the business domain and unblock data questions. 

Experience and Qualifications 

• You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in mathematics, statistics, data science, computer science, economics, or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience. 

• You have demonstrated experience using data in a previous role, academic project or personal project to create dashboards, reports or a data science product that provides useful insights. 

• You have beginner-level experience using SQL, Python, R or a similar language for data analysis, including filtering, joining, transforming and summarizing data. 

• You understand the fundamentals of descriptive statistics, probability, regression and measurement, and can apply them to business questions with support. 

• You can communicate analytical approaches and findings clearly to both technical and non-technical partners, using concise written and verbal storytelling. 

• You are curious, collaborative and open to feedback, and you are willing to learn visualization tools such as Tableau and new data sources as needed.

Accommodation requests

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About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

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Equal Opportunity

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.