Data Scientist (For independent contractors)

Please note, this is a 6-month assignment for freelancers.

The pay rate is 65-110 EUR/hour.

About the Insurance Business Unit

Booking.com Insurance is the easiest way to protect your trip and travel with peace of mind. As part of our Connected Trip vision, Booking.com has ambitious growth plans for the insurance business as it looks to develop a global footprint of insurance product offerings across the Group. Through innovation, industry sector knowledge and clear customer focus, the team’s challenge is to substantially enhance the Insurance customer experience. Working in collaboration with leading industry partners, our insurance products are designed to give customers assurance they have the protection they need to allow them to relax and enjoy the trip - great value cover backed by a first class experience should they need to make a claim.

Role description:

• The role will primarily involve supporting the ambitions to develop and deliver new product capabilities within Insurance, namely paid smartflex.

  
  

• Partnering with commercial, data engineering and product teams to develop data pipelines and ET integration in order to ensure exposure and tracking is setup in a robust and scalable manner.

  
  

• Understand the vision and strategy of product development and experimentation activities and develop and own data science roadmaps in order to execute.

  
  

• Develop knowledge and awareness of market sizing in order to drive and influence the product roadmap.

  
  

• Develop and build upon experiment design principles in order to ensure the correct measures of success are used.

  
  

• You will work closely with the product & engineering, data management & data engineering teams to support our product vision. Strong skills in stakeholder management and business acumen will ensure your work is impactful and can influence the business decisions of your stakeholders.

  
  
  

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Responsible for providing data science support to our product stakeholders, to enable them to make data-driven decisions

  
  

• Responsible for designing and interpreting quantitative experiments to objectively guide key business decision making

  
  

• Responsible for designing & delivering entire data science solutions working closely with product and research teams

  
  

• Continuously review product engagement and performance, generate insights and provide hypotheses for newer experimentation to drive product growth

  
  

• Implement learnings in replicating product success to other areas within Intent Discovery and Platform

Role Qualifications and Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience working in Data Science roles; advanced degree preferred (Statistics, Econometrics, Applied Mathematics, or similar) (mandatory)

  
  

• Strong background in pricing / economics

  
  

• Strong working knowledge of statistics (mandatory)

  
  

• Descriptive Statistics

  
  

• Standard Deviation, Skewness etc.

  
  

• Inferential Statistics

  
  

• Hypothesis testing

  
  

• Confidence intervals, p-values, Correlation vs Causation

• Type I and Type II errors

  
  

• Strong working knowledge of Experimentation (mandatory)

  
  

• A/B testing

  
  

• Power analysis & sample size determination

  
  

• Familiarity with biases in experimentation.

  
  

• Strong working knowledge of SQL and at least one scripting language (Python or R) (mandatory)

  
  

• Analytical, strategic, humble, entrepreneurial, and data-driven (mandatory)

  
  

• Comfortable interacting with stakeholders throughout the global organization (mandatory)

  
  

• Strong communication and presentation skills (mandatory)

  
  

• Very strong commercial acumen (mandatory)

  
  

• Flexibility to accommodate change and thrive in ambiguity (mandatory)

  
  

• Familiarity with optimisation techniques.