We’re seeking a proven data science leader excited about statistical modeling, forecasting, analytics, experimentation, and mining user behavior data to work on some of TripAdvisor’s biggest marketplace challenges. You will be apart of the finance team, specifically focused on developing advanced inference and forecasting models to disentangle the interplay between supply and demand. You will be responsible for collecting data and producing quantitative insights to shape TripAdvisor’s competitive strategy.

What you’ll do

• Apply machine learning and statistical methods to solve large scale problems, including: full funnel revenue modeling; macro traveler trends; and user value models

• Full funnel time series modeling using multi-model inputs to project revenue and understand changes to our business trends

• Influence the team’s direction/strategy by identifying KPI for marketing initiatives, business issues, developing hypotheses and executing analysis—translating data into meaningful insights and presenting recommendations

• Serve as technical expert and mentor to other analysts as well as a cross-functional data science consultant to other projects and teams.

• Contribute to the development of the team’s tools, skills, standards, culture and impact.

Qualifications

• Domain expertise in marketplace optimization/ design

• Strong foundation in product analytics and statistics

• Keen eye for detail and thoughtful investigation of data before relying upon it

• Ability to think and execute at multiple altitudes: from strategy and vision to execution

• 2+ years in industry with proven business impact

• MS in quantitative field preferred

• Experience with languages used for querying (e.g. Hive/Pig/SQL), preprocessing (e.g. unix/python), and statistical analysis (e.g. R/Matlab/Stata)

• Excellent communication, organizational and project management skills. Ability to work between teams, functions and geographies, with high autonomy and little guidance

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