Applied Data Scientist - Fintech

February 25

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

📊 Data Scientist

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Hopper

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Hopper is a travel booking platform that offers a one-stop solution for planning trips, including flights, hotels, rental cars, and homes. The platform features advanced options such as price prediction, disruption assistance, and the Price Freeze™ feature, allowing travelers to secure deals and manage changes conveniently. Hopper is known for its mobile app availability on iOS and Android, providing a streamlined experience for its users. It serves millions of travelers worldwide, offering VIP support and various affiliate programs for partners.

airfare and analytics

201 - 500 employees

💰 $96M Venture Round on 2022-11

📋 Description

• About the job • Hopper is continually redefining how people travel, combining a best-in-class travel agency with a portfolio of proprietary fintech offerings that give our customers peace of mind when booking travel. • More than 100M monthly active users are exposed to our products through our mobile app and a growing list of partners such as CapitalOne, Air Canada, and Spirit Airlines. • With a real-time feed of 50B+ priced itineraries daily along with more than ten years of history and multiple external data sources, we have unparalleled insight about pricing and demand trends. • This is a unique opportunity to join our growing Fintech Foundation team. • We’re responsible for optimizing pricing for all ancillary products we sell, balancing customer demand with the financial risks we take on. • We help our product teams deliver new fintech products to market faster, respond rapidly to changing market conditions, run continuous champion-challenger testing on product construction levers, and maintain our growing portfolio of pricing models across dozens of partners. • As an applied data scientist you will play a key role in growing our fintech business through innovative pricing and product construction, operated at scale across dozens of partners.

🎯 Requirements

• A BSc or MSc in a highly quantitative field like math, physics, statistics, or economics. • Two or more years experience applying data analysis and predictive modeling skills in a fast-paced business environment. • Excellent communication skills and creative problem solving ability. • Strong coding skills with SQL and Python. • A highly pragmatic approach that values business impact over statistical nuance.

🏖️ Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages. • Unlimited PTO. • Carrot Cash travel stipend. • Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend. • Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!. • Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business. • Open communication with management and company leadership. • Small, dynamic teams = massive impact. • 100% employer paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for employees. • Access to Disability & Life insurance. • Health Reimbursement Account (HRA). • DCA/ FSA and access to 401k plan.