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Senior Director, Data Science
Expedia
Bellevue, WA, United States
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Position Summary & Responsibilities
Expedia Group, within Enterprise Risk & Security, is looking for a Senior Director, Data Science. This role enables one of the world’s largest eCommerce travel companies, Expedia Group, to leverage valuable insights and best in class innovative fraud and security detection technologies based on advanced data science. This leader leads an organization of talented Data Scientists and Business Intelligence professionals.
Responsibilities
• Apply Data Discovery, Data Mining and Machine Learning techniques to make new business cases and drive them from concept to production
• Leverage traditional and emerging analytics frameworks including DB2, Hadoop, Mahout, R, SAS, etc. and lead the evolution of the analytic framework and its adoption across Expedia
• Provide and consult with various partners and leaders across Expedia Group regarding data science & business intelligence solutions
• Build and manage a high performing team
• Provide thought leadership to both data scientists and BI analysts as well as leaders across the group.
• Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce
• Lead and strengthen a team of data scientists, analysts and data engineers who inform strategy, investment, and design and build solutions for machine learning, AI, journey analytics, orchestration and personalization
• Work with internal partners to define requirements, guide product and architectural vision, and prioritize efforts
• Advance and actualize the team’s vision, starting with roadmap development and prioritization, which may include items like a strategic critical metric framework, customer portfolio optimization and planning, strategic site analysis (segments and pathing), measurement and attribution, AI platform evaluation and journey analytics
• Continuously innovate by staying abreast of and bringing recommendations on the latest tools and techniques (and evaluate options) associated with consumer personalization, AI/Machine learning, deep learning, real time decisioning, and digital analytics
• Iterate quickly in an agile development process
• Design, plan, and manage projects from start to finish & produce data driven results with appropriate techniques to answer key business questions
• Use machine learning and predictive modeling to develop data driven solutions that drive substantial business value to your internal stakeholders/partners
• Create and execute analytic solutions to improve and optimize business performance and minimize risk
• Deliver on time current production models and systems including regular refresh and update
• Design, build and launch the next generation of the modeling platform
• Oversee the automation and data accuracy of BI
Person Profile
• PhD in Computer Science is required, MBA preferred
• 5+ years of experience of managing a data science team
• 10+ years of data science experience
• Think strategically and results driven
• Self-starter that has superb communication skills and experience working in fast paced environments
• Experience with big data technologies: Hadoop, Hive, HBase Spark etc.
• Experience in using Machine Learning algorithms like Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosted Decision Tress, Deep Neural Networks, etc. and with ML toolkits/frameworks like R and TensorFlow on-premise and in the Cloud
• Prior experience in data quality control, data validation, data cleansing, data pipeline and data analytics
• Experience of partnering with technology or data engineering team for pushing models into production
• Experience leading teams building and delivering advanced analytics projects including predictive models
• Experience of fraud and risk is desired
Why join us?
Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.
Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.
If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.
Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.
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, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.