Senior Data Scientist – Travel Tech

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Manage the analytical relationship with a selection of HTS partners in collaboration with Partner Success and Commercial teams.

• Comprehend partner requirements, provide analyses, and communicate findings directly to partner teams.

• Create and standardize repeatable reports on supply health, pricing competitiveness, and tenant performance across hotels, flights, homes, and cars.

• Leverage AI assistants, agents, and code-generation tools to automate repetitive analysis and reporting, promoting these practices within the broader team.

• Conduct exploratory analyses on partner and traveler behavior and convert findings into actionable recommendations for product, engineering, and business leaders.

• Utilize machine learning and statistical methods on large, complex datasets when appropriate.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent hands-on experience.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, demonstrated by a history of addressing complex questions with data across various domains or product lines.

• Proven capability to simplify complex technical work into clear, credible narratives for non-technical and executive audiences, including external partners.

• Comfortable engaging directly with partners, presenting findings, addressing challenging questions in real-time, and building rapport with commercial counterparts.

• Advanced SQL skills and experience with contemporary data warehouses such as BigQuery.

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

• Regular hands-on use of LLM-based tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Copilot for writing code, SQL, analyses, and documentation.

• Experience in creating or implementing automated and agentic workflows, 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, marketplace, B2B platform, or API distribution is advantageous.

• Background with geographic data or external customers in consulting, solutions, or customer analytics is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Pre-IPO equity packages.

• Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for the group insurance plan.

• Life, short-term, and long-term disability coverage.

• HSA covering eligible medical and dental expenses.

• Dialogue telemedicine services for employees and dependents, accessible anytime and anywhere.

• RRSP plan with automatic pre-tax payroll deductions for each pay period.

• Very generous parental leave, exceeding industry standards.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Carrot Cash travel stipend.

• On-demand access to coworking spaces via FlexDesk.

• Work-from-home stipend.

• Entrepreneurial culture where innovation and risk-taking are integral to daily operations.

• Open communication with management and company leadership.

• Small, agile teams that create a significant impact.