Senior Data Scientist- Travel Tech

The role

You will own the analytical relationship with a portfolio of HTS partners. You will build repeatable reporting and use AI tools to automate analysis and answer questions about supply health, pricing competitiveness, and performance.

What you will do

• Own the analytical relationship with a portfolio of HTS partners
• Design and templatize repeatable reporting on supply health, pricing competitiveness and tenant performance
• Use AI assistants, agents and code generation tools to automate analysis and reporting
• Frame and run exploratory analyses to understand partner and traveler behavior
• Apply machine learning and statistical methods to large datasets
• Build dashboards and self serve reporting in BigQuery, Looker, Tableau, Amplitude and Google Sheets
• Partner with product and engineering to support data collection needs

Required qualifications

• A degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or another quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• Extremely strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to turn complex technical work into simple, credible narratives for non technical and executive audiences
• Comfort being partner facing, presenting findings, and fielding tough questions live
• Deep SQL skills and experience with modern data warehouses such as BigQuery
• Fluency in Python and Pandas or R
• Hands on, daily use of LLM based tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Copilot
• Experience building or deploying automated and agentic workflows
• Experience with data mining, machine learning and statistical modeling
• Experience with business reporting and experimentation tools such as Tableau, Looker or Amplitude

Nice to have

• Travel industry experience in lodging, air, vacation rentals or car rental, or in a marketplace, B2B platform or API distribution business
• Experience with geographic data in search, filtering or recommendation
• Experience working with external customers in a consulting, solutions or customer analytics capacity

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Pre-IPO equity packages
• Unlimited PTO
• Carrot Cash travel stipend
• Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk
• Work-from-home stipend
• Generous parental leave
• 100% employer paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage
• Access to Disability & Life insurance
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• DCA/ FSA
• Access to 401k plan

About the company

Hopper is a travel technology platform. Its HTS business powers travel for large brands through APIs, white label products and fintech.