Do you want to power the future of travel? Are you looking for a Graduate Program that’ll enable you to make a positive impact, strengthen connections, and bridge divides across the world? Then come and help us to bring people together through travel technology, while jump-starting your career in Data Science, Analytics.
We pave the route for our early careers talent to go far and fast with accelerated career development. By joining the 2022 Expedia Group Graduate Program as a Data Science, Analyst, you’ll complete two 6-month rotations and discover which part of travel technology excites you the most, before reaching your Destination Role with us.
About the Graduate Program
- Team Rotations: two 6-month rotations within different teams in the same office, to build knowledge of our business and to across Expedia Group divisions. Contribute to meaningful work that makes a positive impact on travel, all while advancing your career
- Onboarding: 1-week training that covers technical and professional skills, plus an introduction to Expedia Group
- Learning Series: communities, technology talks and regular workshops to build your technical and interpersonal skills
- Leadership Series: opportunities to ask questions directly to our leaders during events, and to learn about their career journeys
- Social Events and Networking: build your network with other Graduates on the program during regular socials and join our Inclusion Business Groups
- Support Network: mentorship from a dedicated structure of Buddies, Mentors, Managers, the Early Careers and the L&D teams
- Benefits: Leisure Travel & Wellness Reimbursement, Travel Discounts, Family & Friends Discounts, Employee Assistance Program
- RSUs: Restricted Stock Units
- Destination Role: after experiencing different teams during two rotations, select a preferred Destination Role with us
What You’ll do
Travel is so much more than simply reaching your destination. Along the way you will make an immediate impact on reimagining travel by developing insightful reports on traveler trends which drive operational improvements in a way that serves our goal to bring the world within reach. From collaborating with internal partners and influencing business decisions, to AB testing hypotheses, there is no shortage of opportunities for technical innovation at Expedia Group – the sky’s the limit!
- You'll identify partner teams' key challenges, provide/prototype solutions, and help solve using statistical analysis and tools
- You'll work to decipher problems by identifying, and using, data sources, making reasonable assumptions, and then turn data into meaningful insights to help drive improvements for customers, for the business, and for our operations.
- You'll communicate insightful analyses findings and recommendations to support, influence and challenge business decisions to various levels of our leadership
- You'll make use of data visualization principles.
- You'll apply basic probabilistic thinking to business challenges.
- You'll have a good understanding of our domain (i.e. travel, e-commerce), business objectives and critical reasoning skills.
- You'll become a data specialist and the point of contact for data questions and insights
- You'll turn data-based findings and insights into hypotheses for AB testing
- You'll review engagement and conversion trends across the network, identify breaks in trends, underlying drivers, and surface opportunities and threats
- You'll develop self-service reporting for product and development teams, by collecting and integrating data from various sources, including web analysis tools and internal databases
Who You are
We know that many candidates can be hesitant to apply for a job if they aren't sure that they meet all the criteria shared below. If you meet the start date/graduation criteria and you are interested in this role we encourage you to apply!
- Available to start on August 22nd, 2022
- Graduating in 2022 with a degree in a technical or analytical subject (such as Computer Science, Marketing Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Economics)
- Experience solving problems with data querying using SQL, statistics and modelling in classes, projects or prior work experience
- Have strong analytical skills and self-motivation
- Skills in Tableau, R, Python are a bonus for data transformation, analysis and visualization
- Effective communication skills and the ability to engage with a variety of partners (e.g., internal, external, technical, non-technical people)
Next Steps
Apply now! Our dedicated early careers team will review your application and suitable applicants will be encouraged to complete an online assessment. If you pass, you'll be invited to a final interview day. Please let us know on your application if you require reasonable adjustments during the hiring process.
Our Commitments
- Expedia Group 2020 Global Impact Report
- Expedia Group 2020 Inclusion & Diversity Report
- Expedia Group has made commitments that will propel us forward on the path to progress, including our hiring target for women to occupy 50 percent of roles at all levels by the end of 2025, and 25 percent of U.S. external hires to come from racially and ethnically underrepresented groups by the end of 2021. We want to build lasting changes for future generations.