Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
- Business Impact: Learn Booking's business and actively make connections between their research activities and benefits to the team. Developing awareness of larger business ecosystem to share
- Collaboration & Communication: Listen and translate team needs into research project success criteria Find ways to discuss and share their work with other researchers, learning different approaches Prioritize findings from data to reveal the relevant impact of the findings for the business Learn how to revise research finding communications for relevance to various stakeholders
- Research Community Contributions: Junior researchers should take advantage of mentoring and feedback programs, but are not expected to contribute beyond participation
- Partner closely with more senior colleagues to get mentoring, including how to prioritize research projects and expand skill set
- Research Community Participates in opportunities within the research community. Gathers feedback on their work from mentors, or through Research Questions Forum or similar
- Internal Stakeholders - Has some limited direct contact with stakeholders that grows over time in role. Works with Research Manager to scope and prioritize work, and on how best to share findings to the teams
Role Qualifications and Requirements
Skills & Experience (essential):
- Master Degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, or Social Science
- 2+ years of experience working in behavioral analytics for a digital UX product
- 1+ year working with survey data
- 1+ years working at a consulting firm or start-up
- Experience with Snowflake: ETL, workflows, analytics, and data visualization
- Comprehensive knowledge of preparing and analyzing behavioral data and business metrics that drive decision making.
- Advanced knowledge of SQL, intermediate knowledge of PySpark
- Experience delivering projects on tight deadlines, and iterating quickly.
- Ability to adapt to change rapidly and thrive in ambiguity
Skill & Experience (desirable):
- Ecommerce or travel industry exposure
- Experience in experiment analytic, or using LLMs for analytics
- Experience with Airflow and Gitlab
- Clear communication and presentation skills
Your qualities:
- Productive– Able to focus and deliver hands-on coding projects quickly
- Organized – Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Principled – Deliver high-quality, transparent work with integrity
Application process
- Portfolio review
- Recruitment Phone Screen
- Interview with our Research manager
- Technical interview with 2 quantitative researcher and data scientist
Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:
- Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parental (22-weeks paid leave), grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
- Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, working from home furniture and ergonomic support, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
- A beautiful sustainable, that offers on-site meals, coffee, and snacks, multi-faith and breastfeeding rooms at the office*
- Commuting allowance and bike reimbursement scheme
- Discounts & Wallet credits to spend on our products, upgrade to Booking.com Genius Level 3, and friends & family Booking.com discount vouchers
- Free access to online learning platforms, development and mentorship programs
- Global Employee Assistance Program, free Headspace membership
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
