Senior Data Scientist at KAYAK

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

The Senior Data Scientist will work closely with marketing leaders, develop frameworks to address marketing measurement challenges, and collaborate with a team to build robust measurement and experimentation solutions.

Responsibilities include:

• Managing end-to-end experimentation, from hypothesis formulation to analysis of results.
• Building a framework for efficiently creating and evaluating creative, bidding, and landing page experiments.
• Developing new models and advanced analytics techniques to measure and optimize marketing spend.
• Supporting the development of less senior scientists and collaborating to ensure high-quality work.
• Building standardized and scalable solutions and setting up best practices.

The ideal candidate should possess:

• An advanced degree (Masters, PhD) in Data Science, Statistics, or a related field.
• Extensive experience with data manipulation and extraction using relational databases (SQL).
• Proficiency in writing high-quality, scalable code (Python, R).
• Strong story-telling and presentation skills to communicate with business partners.
• A solid foundation in experimentation methods and causal inference techniques.
• Experience in marketing science measurement methodologies like Causal impact, geo-lift, and Marketing mix models.
• A proactive work style with minimal guidance and good judgment.
• Passion for large data sets in marketing, finance, and economics.
• Skills in paid marketing data, time-series analysis, econometrics, and regression models.

KAYAK offers:

• The option to work remotely for up to 20 days per year.
• Comprehensive mental health and well-being support.
• Generous paid vacation and time off.
• Focus on career growth and development.
• Travel discounts and employee resource groups.
• Lunch provided five days per week & breakfast once a week
• Awesome office in the city centre of Copenhagen
• Monthly social events, yoga, Thursday bars