Will you join us on a journey to disrupt the trillion-dollar travel industry? Are you a product and business-driven Analyst looking for their next adventure?

FindHotel believes travel is the one thing that opens minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our mission is to get every traveler the best accommodation deal, worldwide. From adventure travel and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we genuinely care so that every traveller can make the best-informed accommodation choice at the absolute best conditions for every trip.

To further this goal we are looking for a Product Analyst who will push our product to new levels. As a Product Analyst, you will shape the direction and growth of our hotel marketplace and become the focal point for all data-related matters in the tribe, working closely closely with Product Owners, Engineers and Data Scientists.

You will work across our Offers engine product, which is responsible for enabling every user search with the best available accommodation offers. At any moment, there are billions of offers available in our ecosystem, the main challenge being finding the most relevant, quality and competitive offers, in an efficient way, and allowing the user to make a fair comparison among them.
In your daily work you will face and try to solve complex product and engineering problems such as defining and finding the best offer for every user, building our pricing strategy, ensuring price accuracy and optimising profitability.

We're looking for a data expert who understands scalable and data-driven products and who has the technical and analytical skills to make sense of the mountain of data we have. This person will join the already existing Analytics team and will be expected to become a key player in making both the product and the team fully data driven.

This is a great challenge for the Product Analyst who wants to join us in our quest to build the next generation of accommodation engine!

What you will do

• Become a key factor in making the team fully data - driven by utilising the data for measurement, ideation decision making and prioritisation;
• Work closely with Engineers and POs on defining KPIs and success criteria, and measuring the impact of existing and new products and features;
• Support A/B testing with design, analysis, statistical decision-making and ideation;
• Perform in-depth analysis on complex big data models for finding new opportunities for improvement and growth and generate actionable insights;
• Build automated and scalable solutions for exposing insights to internal and external consumers using  BI tools;
• Work with Data Scientists and Engineers to build and optimise data-driven features through data discovery and statistical modelling;
• Monitor ongoing performance and perform ad-hoc analysis for investigating issues in production.

What a day in the office might look like

You start the day by checking up on the product dashboards and A/B tests to see if anything requires attention. If required, you join the team’s stand up to communicate any urgent matters. Then, you spend time looking at communication about key projects or data - based features that the Squad or team is responsible for like pricing, hotel partners performance, offers ranking etc. Based on this, you reprioritise your tasks list and finalise the communication with the stakeholder. In the meantime, you plan and start your work on the main project (for example: price accuracy) which is your responsibility at the time, and own it end-to-end, including data modelling and dashboard/model building, delivery and time planning, risk identification and mitigation, and generate real impact for business. In the midst of all of this, you also dedicate 20% of your time to answering questions from stakeholders, weekly meetings, brainstorming on a possible business problem or fixing any data or KPIs issues that has been identified.

The team: Product Owner, Backend Engineers and Data Scientists.

Who you are:

Required

• You have 2-6 years of hands-on experience using data to drive product and business decisions;
• You are highly analytical, data-driven, and have the ability to assemble, analyse and interpret data to influence decisions and communicate findings;
• You have experience modelling data and creating basic data pipelines;
• You have basic knowledge of Python/R;
• You are an expert using SQL and developing in BI tools like Looker or Tableau;
• You have a BSc/MSc or equivalent degree with related experience in statistics, data analysis, anddata mining. 

Preferred

• Especially for the more experienced candidates, we'd also expect to see in-depth experience in one or more of the optional areas below (in order of priority):
• Experience in internet/mobile companies
• Conversion rate, pricing or request utilisation optimisation
• Statistical modelling in Python

Why join FindHotel now

• We aim to help 10M customers book on FindHotel annually by 2023, up from 3M in the past 12 months. We do that using data, transparency, and industry leading features, and managed to overcome the corona crisis remarkably fast;
• The company is evolving quickly to position itself among the global leaders in the travel industry. It is an exceptional journey to make: challenging, exciting, and a marvel to be part of;
• We place huge importance on rewarding our employees for the value they generate by giving Stock Appreciation Rights to all employees.

Do you want to know if FindHotel is the right place for you? Find out by reading about the attitude that thrives at FindHotel.

What we offer:

• Plenty of chances to learn and grow within an open, diverse culture which promotes knowledge sharing, trust and transparency;
• A great compensation package + perks and benefits (including significant stock appreciation rights);
• Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely;
• You will be part of a highly international team that enjoys working, eating and playing together in one of the best office locations in Amsterdam;
• We value good food and offer catered lunches from various cuisines, great coffee, ice-cream in the fridge and the occasional barbecue in our garden;
• We enjoy getting together to celebrate our wins with company events in Amsterdam and abroad;
• A budget for your dream home office.
• Access to free mental health support via OpenUp.

We encourage people from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, ages and abilities to apply. If this job description resonates with you, we want to hear from you!

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