Posted:
2/27/2025, 4:00:00 PM
Location(s):
Karnataka, India ⋅ Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience Level(s):
Senior
Field(s):
Business & Strategy ⋅ Data & Analytics
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Director, Business Performance Analytics
Introduction to team
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design innovative tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
As the data-oriented business partners of finance, the Business Performance Analytics team will be an integral part of the Brands Finance organization. This team owns the performance metrics for the organization and drives the growth of Expedia Group and the optimization of marketing investments.
Make an impact!
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, experienced leader to join the Expedia Finance team as a Director of Business Analytics.
In this critical global leadership role, you will be responsible for leading a team of managers and analyst to empower finance and marketing at Expedia. This is a great opportunity to join the surging travel industry and help drive the business forward while working on impactful and complex problems. If you are energized by the idea of delivering business outcomes by rolling up your sleeves, bringing teams together and making an impact, then you'll be a great fit!
In this role, you will:
Collaborate with business partners to answer key business questions – challenge their thinking and become a trusted business partner. Help the business prioritize analytical deliverables and manage their expectations.
Perform exploratory analysis of large data sets.
Derive tactical and strategic insights to improve business strategies and accelerate channel growth.
Demonstrate strong analytical and statistical skills towards taking complex and unstructured business problems, wide variety of quantitative and qualitative data, and providing structured, hypothesis-driven and data-supported practical solutions.
Have strong empirical and analytical background, with demonstrated ability to combine quantitative and qualitative findings in order to frame the right questions and measurable insights.
Be a lateral problem solver, who constructively challenges the obvious answer in order to examine the underlying mechanism or phenomenon.
Be comfortable in developing analytics vision and roadmap for the team, and foster innovation through continuous evolution of analytical frameworks and data solutions.
Build a great team and support the Marketing Analytics Community
Experience and qualifications:
Bachelors’ degree in a technical field with 15+ years of relevant work experience (or relevant Masters’ degree/MBA with 13+ years’ experience), out of which 7-10 years are in a managerial role.
Experience with analytics tools and methods (e.g., using BI tools and coding techniques to extract insights, experimentation frameworks like A/B testing, attribution models, measuring incrementality of business actions, statistical approaches for segmentation, classification, and prediction etc.). Prior experience with Gen AI tools will also be desirable.
Proficiency with Advanced Excel is important. Knowledge of SQL, Apache Spark, Python, R (multiple preferred) is required to query, transform/compute and analyze the data.
Additionally, track record in leading cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives in the analytics space, and delegating tasks and managing delivery across team is important.
Prior experience in hiring, coaching, and developing individual contributors is necessary for this role.
Ability to effectively influence, communicate and present cross-functionally with all levels of management internally and externally. Concise and engaging storytelling skills with Data visualization (Charts/Graphs) and PowerPoint.
Expertise in proactively identifying broad business or product issues/opportunities and translating them into tactical projects and tasks that align with stakeholder priorities.
Ability to speak with confidence and credibility to senior executives about the business value of analytics without being too technical, with data scientists and other analysts globally about analytics methodologies to answer questions, and with the Data Engineering/IT side of the organization about data access & integration.
Strategic with proven demonstration of depth and breadth on multiple topics of interest in the business. The execution should be agile & efficient.
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Headquarter Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Employee Count: 5001-10000
Year Founded: 1996
IPO Status: Public
Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt
Industries: Reservations ⋅ Task Management ⋅ Ticketing ⋅ Transportation ⋅ Travel