Senior Data Scientist - Ranking and Ads Insights

Role Description: This role does not come with relocation assistance

About Us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Role and Team Overview

As a Senior Data Scientist in Ranking and Ads, you will work autonomously on impactful strategic business problems, translating them into data stories and delivering insights that inform business decisions across multiple products. The Senior Data Scientist for this team will specialise specifically in Ads. You will design and interpret experiments to guide long-term strategic decisions, build proofs of concept and prototypes, and actively manage stakeholders from operational to Director level. You'll collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Data Engineering teams, writing high-quality, reproducible code to ensure your work lands impactfully and enables solid decision-making across leadership.

Ranking and Ads Insights is a new and expanding, highly commercial team providing Data Science and Analytics support within Marketplace. Our mission is to power Ads across Booking.com and support Ranking ML teams to show the right properties to the right people.

Our work enables partners to reach travelers at the perfect moment while preserving customer experience and driving commercial impact. This is a unique opportunity to apply your business awareness to high-stakes initiatives, ensuring your work not only solves complex data problems but actively shapes the strategy for the Ads part of our scope in particular.

You’ll work in a cross-functional team alongside Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Data Management to support our product vision. Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management will ensure that your work is impactful and drives business results.

To get a flavor of the Data Science & ML work at Booking, check out our blog here.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Responsible for defining the strategy and vision for generating impact in one or more Data Science solutions by driving it from ideation to prototyping to full productionisation.
• Responsible for proactively identifying and autonomously prioritizing impactful strategic business problems, translating them into data stories and solving them effectively by applying suitable statistical data analysis and modeling methods. Leverages input from product stakeholders in all of the above to determine the right technical solutions to deliver customer value. May seek guidance from the manager on complex business problems.
• Responsible for driving key projects within the scope of their team to deliver work that informs business decisions across multiple products / business topics in parallel and/or core products / business topics of the area they work in, while self-prioritizing at high velocity. Regularly collaborating across multiple teams.
• Responsible for designing and interpreting quantitative experiments to objectively drive long-term strategic business decision making.
• Responsible for autonomously identifying and managing a broad range of stakeholders, from operational to senior managerial roles and, as required, Director level stakeholders. Maintains effective communication, addresses stakeholder needs, and conveys complex analysis results clearly. Continues to guide less experienced colleagues in all of the above, but may seek guidance from the manager in complex situations with senior stakeholders.
• Responsible for exploring and modifying existing internal and external Data Science approaches. Makes these solutions reusable by designing