CANADA /HOTELS – DATA SCIENCE /FULL-TIME
About the job
We’re looking for a motivated data scientist and data wrangler to help us capitalize on key data-centric product opportunities within the hotel business.
You might be a great fit for our team if you’re a self-starter who thrives on uncertainty, and who’s passionate about exploring the intersection of real business problems with huge (and often messy) data sets, and finding effective ways to simplify and focus on practical opportunities to deliver value to our customers. To succeed at Hopper you need the talent, drive, and experience to thrive in a highly performing company.
We collect and archive pricing data for hotels from a dozen providers; rich metadata at the property, room and user level; as well as geographic data about each property and the related context like airports, points of interest, neighbourhoods and political boundaries.
Specific challenges include measuring and predicting specific hotel sales performance to drive dynamic pricing; improving our automated sort order; personalized recommendations based on observed customer behaviour; and better leveraging geographic data in search, filtering and recommendations.
Minimum qualifications
• Minimum 4 years of working experience in related role
• A degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or other quantitative disciplines
• Extremely strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical work to a non-technical audience
• A strong passion for and extensive experience conducting empirical research and answering hard questions with data
• Experience with relational databases and SQL, including geographical data
• Experience in Pandas, R, SAS or other tools appropriate for large scale data preparation and analysis
• Experience with data mining, machine learning, statistical modelling tools and underlying algorithms
• Experience with business reporting tools such as Tableau, Amplitude
• Proficiency with Unix/Linux environments
More about Hopper
Today, Hopper is best known as a travel app. We're going to do about $1B in sales this year and weathered the COVID storm better than anyone expected. We just raised $170M from Goldman Sachs and Capital One, and inked a deal to be the exclusive travel provider for Capital One Travel.
We owe our success, in large part, to a proprietary suite of data-driven and risk-based financial services that we have developed that complement a customer's trip-purchasing experience. One example is Price Freeze, where our customers are able to purchase a financial option in the app to lock in any price that they see, on any item, for as short as 1 hour or as long as 21 days with Hopper taking the risk on the other side of the trade.
Hopper is an award-winning online travel marketplace. We partner with airlines, hotels, homes, and car rental providers across the globe so you can feel confident you're booking the perfect vacation at the best price.
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