hopper - Senior Data Scientist- Travel Tech
Requirements
• A degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or another quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience • Extremely strong analytical and problem solving skills, with a track record of answering hard questions with data across more than one domain or product line • A proven ability to turn complex technical work into simple, credible narratives for non technical and executive audiences, including external partners • Comfort being partner facing, presenting findings, fielding tough questions live and building trust with commercial counterparts • Deep SQL skills and experience with modern data warehouses such as BigQuery, plus fluency in Python and Pandas or R for large scale data preparation and analysis • Hands on, daily use of LLM based tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Copilot for writing code, SQL, analysis and documentation, and a point of view on where they help and where they fall short • Experience building or deploying automated and agentic workflows, from scheduled pipelines to LLM driven report generation and prompt or skill libraries, that turn one off analyses into repeatable products • Experience with data mining, machine learning and statistical modeling, and the judgment to know when to reach for them • Experience with business reporting and experimentation tools such as Tableau, Looker or Amplitude • A strong bias toward simplifying, templatizing and shipping over polishing • Travel industry experience in lodging, air, vacation rentals or car rental, or in a marketplace, B2B platform or API distribution business, is a plus • Experience with geographic data in search, filtering or recommendation, or working with external customers in a consulting, solutions or customer analytics capacity, is a plus
Responsibilities
• Own the analytical relationship with a portfolio of HTS partners, working alongside Partner Success and Commercial to understand what they need, deliver it, and present it directly to their teams • Design and templatize repeatable reporting on supply health, pricing competitiveness and tenant performance that scales across hotels, flights, homes and cars without being rebuilt each time • Use AI assistants, agents and code generation tools as everyday collaborators to automate the repetitive parts of analysis and reporting, and help the broader team adopt the same practices • Frame and run exploratory analyses that deepen our understanding of partner and traveler behavior, and translate what you find into clear recommendations for product, engineering and business leaders • Apply machine learning and statistical methods to large, messy datasets where they move the needle, and recognize when a simple, well explained metric is the better answer • Build dashboards and self serve reporting in BigQuery, Looker, Tableau, Amplitude and Google Sheets, with an eye toward making yourself unnecessary for routine questions • Partner closely with product and engineering so the data we collect supports the questions our partners will ask next
Benefits
• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages • Unlimited PTO • Carrot Cash travel stipend • Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend • Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards! • Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business • Open communication with management and company leadership • Small, dynamic teams = massive impact • 100% employer paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for employees • Access to Disability & Life insurance • Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) • DCA/ FSA and access to 401k plan
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