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Senior Data Scientist- Travel Tech

Hopper · United States - Remote · Remote

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About Hopper

Inference for Voice. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS) powers travel for some of the world's largest brands through our APIs, white label products and fintech, and every dataset we hold tells a story our partners need told clearly, repeatedly and fast. As a Senior Data Scientist on HTS you will own the analytical relationship with a portfolio of partners and build the machinery that answers their questions about supply health, pricing competitiveness and performance once, then answers them every week. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • A degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or another quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience
  • Extremely strong analytical and problem solving skills, with a track record of answering hard questions with data across more than one domain or product line
  • A proven ability to turn complex technical work into simple, credible narratives for non technical and executive audiences, including external partners
  • Comfort being partner facing, presenting findings, fielding tough questions live and building trust with commercial counterparts
  • Deep SQL skills and experience with modern data warehouses such as BigQuery, plus fluency in Python and Pandas or R for large scale data preparation and analysis
  • Hands on, daily use of LLM based tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Copilot for writing code, SQL, analysis and documentation, and a point of view on where they help and where they fall short
More about this role

About the Role

Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS) powers travel for some of the world's largest brands through our APIs, white label products and fintech, and every dataset we hold tells a story our partners need told clearly, repeatedly and fast. As a Senior Data Scientist on HTS you will own the analytical relationship with a portfolio of partners and build the machinery that answers their questions about supply health, pricing competitiveness and performance once, then answers them every week. You will be judged less on the sophistication of your models than on whether the people you work with, inside Hopper and across partner commercial teams, make better decisions because of you.

Own the analytical relationship with a portfolio of HTS partners, working alongside Partner Success and Commercial to understand what they need, deliver it, and present it directly to their teams

Design and templatize repeatable reporting on supply health, pricing competitiveness and tenant performance that scales across hotels, flights, homes and cars without being rebuilt each time

Use AI assistants, agents and code generation tools as everyday collaborators to automate the repetitive parts of...

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