Data Scientist I - Commercial Operations Analytics

Expedia Expedia · Hospitality · Gurgaon, India

Data Scientist role focused on commercial operations analytics, extracting and combining data, applying analytics techniques to support decision-making, and identifying operational challenges. The role emphasizes using AI tools appropriately for research, analysis, and automation while maintaining human ownership of validation and recommendations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Use your creativity and commercial acumen to frame business challenges as analytical problems and apply problem solving techniques to break it down into concrete set of analytical tasks
  2. Extract data from multiple data sources and combine them into the required datasets
  3. Apply analytics techniques to deliver insights supporting decision-making of account management stakeholders
  4. Engage broadly and proactively with the organization to identify and prioritize operational challenges
  5. Articulate confidently decision-making rationale, methodology and recommendation to both technical and non-technical partners, using clear and compelling storytelling in presentations

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Python
  • analytics
  • business intelligence
  • problem-solving
  • communication
  • presentation skills

Nice to have

  • Python knowledge a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • Ability to use AI appropriately across projects - e.g. for research/context gathering, one of analysis, dashboard construction and automation, coding support - while maintaining human ownership of validation, judgement and final recommendations