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Director, Expedia Brand Analytics
Introduction to the team
The Traveler Business Team has a mission to deliver the most convenient, rewarding, and memorable ways for people to travel and explore the world. This division has responsibility to build and drive the growth of our global consumer business across our Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, and Portfolio brands, and across all our lines of businesses including Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Air, Car, Packages, and Insurtech.
Expedia Group is seeking a dynamic, motivated leader to join the Expedia Brands team as a Director within our Marketing Analytics Organization.
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 lead the analytics team for our Expedia brand. You and your team will provide powerful insights that will shape our understanding of the drivers of the Expedia brand and help us forecast and plan for future performance. As a director, you will work with your stakeholders to define your roadmap and work closely with other analytics teams to develop and implement solutions that optimize our investments and improve profitability. You will lead and coach a diverse team of analysts who partner with business owners to deliver insights and decisions that benefit the organization.
In this role, you will:
You will lead a team of analysts to deliver against a broad range of projects
Work independently and with other analytics teams across the business to understand the drivers of our performance
Conduct analysis to identify new opportunities and help shape and track performance of initiatives as they progress
Work with your business partners to support the creation of robust forecasts and anticipate future performance drivers before they happen
Support our weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting cycles where we define KPIs, review the performance of the business and make recommendations on how to improve our investments and operations to drive superior future performance
Build a great team and support the Marketing Analytics Community
Experience and qualifications:
8+ years' experience in a similar analytical role; tech/travel industry preferred
Experience directly managing a team or demonstrated leadership skills in a senior-level role
Excellent analytical problem-solving skills and strong commercial acumen
Strong experience in big data manipulation; leveraging SQl and/or other coding languages to create recommendations, presentations and dashboards.
Innovative and strategic thinker with demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to solutions; prior experiences tackling vague problems, crisply framing the challenges and identifying a path forward
Demonstrated project and partner management skills, working with multiple teams across several countries
Skilled in engaging with stakeholders across all levels, including VPs/SVPs, and communicating complex concepts concisely and clearly
Brings extensive experience and strategic thought leadership to contribute insights and decisions beneficial to the organization
Picks analytically valid approaches, appropriate in terms of level of effort, favoring iterative delivery that solve for the objective, not the ask (i.e. not just order taking)
Uses advanced and sophisticated understanding of the business problem space to inform the design of the solution
Curious - Willing to learn and always striving for better
Impact-oriented - Keen to make a difference in everything you do - for our customers
Team player/leader - Works collaboratively to tackle challenges, across borders and cultures
Entrepreneurial - Sees opportunity and takes initiative to advance our capabilities with little guidance or request to do so
The total cash range for this position in Austin is $224,000 to $313,500. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $358,500, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $224,000.00 to $313,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $358,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
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