Data Scientist I, Analytics

A supporting-level team member who consistently applies analytics capabilities, principles and playbooks to solve business issues and opportunities, with close supervisory review.

What you will do:

• Design simple experiments.
• Consistently makes use of data visualization principles.
• Uses charts, formatting and customizing, ensuring labeling, titling and other fundamentals are present and effective.
• Uses color palettes beyond the basics.
• Considers good use of typography in visualizations.
• Go beyond the basics with UX/UI, makes good use of white space and considers the end user experience in their design.
• Collaborate with peers within teams, bearing team and company goals in mind.
• Proactively contributes to cross team collaboration ensuring best available information is included in analysis and shares findings with peers and leader.
• Articulates solutions, methodologies, and frameworks in a clear and concise way to both technical and non-technical partners.
• Extracts data from multiple data sources and combines into the required datasets for model building or analytics.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the data available, the data generation process and the importance of data quality. Finds and raises data issues.
• Conducts exploratory data profiling techniques, produces crosstabs, common summary descriptive statistics, etc.
• Applies software design principles, data structures, algorithms and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized and modular with good naming conventions.
• Demonstrates capability of framing a business problem as an analytics problem and concrete set of analytical tasks.
• Displays good domain (i.e. travel, online retail) knowledge, business acumen (understanding the underlying business objectives), curiosity and critical reasoning skills.
• Picks analytically valid approaches, appropriate in terms of level of effort, favoring iterative delivery that solves for the objective, not the ask (i.e. not just order-taking). Uses good understanding of the business problem space to inform the design of the solution.
• Manages stakeholders with frequent communication, expectation management, meeting deadlines and minimizing surprises.
• Automates repeated measurement and reporting tasks and build scalable dashboards to cover multiple scenarios.

Who you are:

• 0-1+ years experience for Bachelor's or equivalent.
• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience; Mathematics, Science, Statistics degree or a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience is applicable.
• Typical entry grade for Bachelor's with limited or no experience.
• Developed and drove change and performance improvement from data-driven insights.
• And/or built and maintained a data science project/product in production environments.
• Able to have critical thinking
• Problem solving skills
• Communication and influencing
• Statistics and SQL skills
• Visualization of data for impact
• Familiar with the basics of big data architecture (e.g. streaming events, data lakes, analytics engines) and relational database models.
• Able to apply basic probabilistic thinking to business problems.
• Demonstrates intuitive grasp of probability and probability distributions.
• Uses descriptive statistics appropriately.
• Applies most commonly used hypothesis tests with awareness of underlying assumptions.
• Possesses basic understanding of model design and can suggest selection, including general approach, choice of algorithm and data sources.
• Displays good domain (i.e. travel, online retail) knowledge, business acumen (understanding the underlying business objectives) and critical reasoning skills.
• Is familiar with EG visualization tool ecosystem and able to use most features to create charts.
• Possesses knowledge of SQL basics such as: SELECT...FROM...ORDER BY, JOINS, WHERE (AND OR NOT IN), GROUP BY.

The total cash range for this position in Austin and Seattle is $86,000.00 to $120,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $137,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Expedia Group powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We are made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. From engineers and marketers to customer service and concierge teams, our people are what power us to deliver the experience that brings travel closer to our customers and partners every single day.