Senior Data Scientist

Job Description

KAYAK, a leading travel search engine, is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their Marketing Measurement team in Berlin. This role involves improving KAYAK's ability to measure the efficiency of marketing efforts and making data-informed strategic marketing decisions.Responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end experimentation, from hypothesis formulation to analysis.
• Build a robust framework for evaluating creative, bidding, and landing page experiments.
• Develop models to measure and optimize marketing spend.
• Support the development of junior scientists and collaborate with team members.
• Build standardized and scalable solutions and set up best practices.

Requirements:

• Advanced degree (Masters, PhD) in Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.
• Extensive experience with data manipulation and SQL.
• Proficiency in Python or R.
• Strong story-telling and presentation skills.
• Strong foundation in experimentation methods and causal inference techniques.
• Experience in marketing science measurement methodologies.
• Proactive work style and good judgment.
• Passionate about large data sets in marketing, finance, and economics.
• Skilled in paid marketing data, time-series analysis, econometrics, and regression models.

Benefits:

• Work from anywhere for up to 20 days per year.
• Focus on mental health and well-being.
• Generous paid vacation and time off.
• Focus on career growth.
• Travel Discounts.
• Free lunch 2 days per week.
• Pension plan contributions.
• Public transportation subsidies.
• Bike leasing program.
• Monthly social events.