Responsibilities

• Directly manages a team of ~3 data scientists (each one level junior), owning hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development.
• Sets technical standards, review practices, and ways of working for the team; establishes code review, reproducibility, and documentation norms.
• Coaches team members on statistical technique, modeling, experimentation, and stakeholder communication, and creates development paths that stretch each individual.
• Allocates team capacity against a prioritized roadmap, balancing strategic bets, BAU measurement, and stakeholder demand; protects the team from low-value order-taking.
• Builds a collaborative, transparent, and inclusive team culture; represents the team’s work and needs to senior leadership.
• Defines the analytics and measurement strategy for SPP and translates ambiguous, loosely-defined business goals into structured analytical programs with clear objectives and phased delivery.
• Frames complex, open-ended business problems as tractable analytics problems and sequences them into manageable workstreams for the team.
• Makes independent judgment calls on scope, method, and level of effort with limited direction; solves for the underlying objective, not the literal ask.
• Anticipates emerging measurement and performance questions before they are raised and proactively shapes the team’s agenda around them.
• Provides thought leadership on cross-channel performance drivers across paid social, programmatic display & video, CTV, digital audio, and paid app, spanning BEX, HCOM, and VRBO.

Requirements

• PhD, Masters, or Bachelors, preferably in a quantitative or scientific field (Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Physics, or similar).
• 7+ years in data science / advanced analytics, including 2+ years directly managing or formally leading data scientists or analysts. Comparable leadership experience will be considered in lieu of formal management tenure.
• Proven track record of delivering data-driven insights and measurement solutions that changed business decisions or drove performance improvement, across multiple domains and senior stakeholders.
• Advanced, production-grade experience with Python, R, or SQL for analysis, transformation, modeling, and visualization of large datasets.
• Functional / Technical Skills: People leadership, strategic thinking, advanced statistics, machine learning, data engineering fundamentals, stakeholder influence and communication, storytelling and data visualization, business acumen and domain judgment.
• In this role, you will:

Preferred

• marketing, media, or performance-marketing measurement experience (paid social, programmatic, CTV, digital audio, paid app) and familiarity with incrementality and causal measurement.

Benefits

• Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership.