Senior Data Scientist – Travel Tech

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Manage the analytical relationship with a selection of Hopper Technology Solutions partners.

• Collaborate with Partner Success and Commercial teams to identify partner needs, provide analysis, and present insights directly to partner teams.

• Create and standardize reporting templates on supply health, pricing competitiveness, and tenant performance across various sectors including hotels, flights, homes, and cars.

• Utilize AI assistants, agents, and code-generation tools to streamline repetitive analysis and reporting tasks.

• Support the wider team in adopting AI-enhanced analytical methodologies.

• Conduct exploratory analyses of partner and traveler behaviors.

• Convert findings into actionable recommendations for product, engineering, and business leaders.

• When suitable, apply machine learning and statistical techniques to large and complex datasets.

• Develop dashboards and self-service reporting using BigQuery, Looker, Tableau, Amplitude, and Google Sheets.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure that the data collected addresses future partner inquiries.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent real-world experience.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Proven history of utilizing data to answer challenging questions across multiple domains or product lines.

• Capability to distill complex technical work into clear, credible narratives suitable for non-technical and executive audiences, including external partners.

• Comfortable in partner-facing roles, presenting findings, addressing challenging questions in real time, and establishing trust with commercial colleagues.

• Proficient in SQL and experienced with modern data warehouse technologies, particularly BigQuery.

• Proficient in Python and Pandas or R for extensive data preparation and analysis tasks.

• Regular use of LLM-based tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Copilot for coding, SQL writing, analysis, and documentation.

• Experience in building or deploying automated workflows and agentic systems, including scheduled pipelines, LLM-driven report generation, and prompt or skill libraries.

• Background in data mining, machine learning, and statistical modeling.

• Familiarity with business reporting and experimentation tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Amplitude.

• Experience in the travel industry, marketplaces, B2B platforms, or API distribution is advantageous.

• Knowledge of geographic data or external customer experience is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Pre-IPO equity packages.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Carrot Cash travel stipend.

• On-demand access to co-working space through FlexDesk.

• Work-from-home stipend.

• Generous parental leave.

• 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees.

• Disability and Life insurance.

• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA).

• DCA/FSA.

• Access to a 401k plan.

• Open lines of communication with management and company leadership.

• Small, dynamic teams that make a significant impact.