FindHotel is looking for a Data
Scientist to join our team and help us push our data driven organisation
to even higher levels. We are looking for someone with a strong
academic and/or business background in machine learning, statistics and
programming, and with a keen interest in applying machine learning to
real business problems. The Data Scientist will be leading a variety of
projects that aim to automate decision making in core business
processes.
What you'll be doing:
Use historical data to build accurate models of KPIs for our
performance-based marketing campaigns: customer value, competition, etc.
Optimize the targeting and pricing of our SEM campaigns.
Use Machine Learning to make our website as effective as possible:
e.g. by providing visitors the recommendations that are most relevant to
them.
Closely collaborate with our developers in the deployment of data science products to our production systems.
Continuously research new data sources, methods and technologies.
What a day in the office might look like:
In our daily standup our analysts have mentioned that European
travelers tend to make more expensive bookings when traveling far away
from home. They also seem to have a preference for hotels with certain
features (e.g. free Wifi, on-site parking, etc). However, data is very
scarce and the analysts don't know whether these findings can be used to
optimize our European Adwords campaigns. Considering the scale of the
European market, any minor optimization in our campaigns can have a
great impact in the business, so you decide to take a closer look. You
start the morning by getting a relevant historical dataset from our data
warehouse, cleaning it, and preparing it for exploration with your
favourite tools. After your morning exploration on the you data, you
end up with a list of data manipulation and modelling approaches that
you think could lead to specific improvements in our campaigns. You will
then spend the rest of the afternoon setting up a simple model
validation framework that will allow you short list your most promising
ideas, so that you can focus on optimizing only those in the following
days.
The squad:
You will be working with a multidisciplinary squad of analysts, data scientists and engineers, and a product owner.
Why join now?
- We have completely re-built the internals of our product and set
the foundations to transform FindHotel from a search product into a
recommendation system. This transition will obviously be driven by data
and will bring exciting data engineering and data science challenges.
- We are looking to grow traffic from 2M monthly visitors to +10M
within the coming year. Doing that in a market as mature and competitive
as online accommodation means that we need to be truly innovative. If
you have a great idea nobody will stop you from giving it a try!
- We have just built a tool that allows us to scale our Search
Marketing Campaigns to a completely new level. This means massive
datasets and unique challenges in terms of data science, engineering and
automation.
- We have formed a solid team of two data scientists and two data
engineers and we are looking to grow the team considerably in the near
future. You will have the chance to grow with us.
What we offer:
- The opportunity to work in a diverse international team in a start-up environment
- An agile environment where communication and initiative are valued and cherished
- No nonsense! We’re proud of our flat hierarchy and short democratic decision paths
- A fun work environment that includes a delicious lunch, fruits & snacks, beer tap, ping pong and foosball
- Competitive compensation package including bonuses and Stock Appreciation Rights
- Flexible time off vacation policy
- Great new spacious and light-filled office located in central Amsterdam