Senior Data Science Manager (Experimentation)

About Tripadvisor

The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing and aims to be the worlds most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands technology and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content travel guidance and two-sided marketplaces for experiences accommodations restaurants and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP) include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses including Tripadvisor Viator and TheFork.

Tripadvisor Experiencesis the team that builds and supports the worlds leading marketplace for travel experiences. We believe that making memories is what travel is all about. And with 400000 travel experiences to exploreeverything from simple tours to extreme adventures (and everything in between) making memories that will last a lifetime has never been easier.

About the role:

As a Senior Manager Product Data Science & Experimentation you will own the health velocity quality governance and organisational maturity of experimentation across Viator and Tripadvisor while providing strong technical leadership from within the Product Data Science function.

What Youll Do

You will be responsible for ensuring experimentation is designed executed and interpreted in a consistent high-quality way across the organisation while driving continuous improvement in velocity adoption and organisational capability.

• Own the end-to-end experimentation operating system including governance standards lifecycle and quality controls across all experiments.
• Define and enforce experimentation standards ensuring consistent rules for experiment design metric selection statistical validity and metadata completeness.
• Drive experimentation velocity and coverage ensuring balanced testing across product surfaces and eliminating under-tested or untested areas.
• Establish a single source of truth for experimentation health ensuring leadership can reliably understand what is being tested where and with what outcomes.
• Partner with Product Engineering Data Engineering and Product Data Science leadership to align on priorities resolve system-level issues and improve experimentation execution.
• Identify and eliminate systemic failure modes in experimentation design and execution preventing recurring issues rather than repeatedly fixing them downstream.
• Reduce reliance on central experimentation support by improving upstream experiment design quality and embedding correct behaviours into product teams.
• Own experimentation literacy across the organisation ensuring teams understand how to design run and interpret experiments correctly as part of normal product development.
• Design and scale frameworks documentation and tooling that make correct experimentation the default and reduce dependency on reactive support or ad hoc guidance.
• Ensure experiment metadata integrity and completeness so that results are comparable auditable and usable for decision-making and organisational learning.
• Act as an escalation point for experimentation system health ensuring issues are resolved quickly and do not persist across cycles.

Skills & Experience

• Experience: Extensive experience in data science experimentation product analytics or a similar quantitative discipline with a proven track record of improving experimentation systems governance or decision-making quality in a product-led organisation.
• Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in SQL and Python with deep understanding of A/B testing statistical experimentation causal inference and applied experimentation frameworks.
• Systems Thinking: Demonstrated ability to design diagnose and improve end-to-end experimentation systems including governance tooling processes and organisational behaviour.
• Product Acumen: Strong understanding of product development and decision-making with ability to influence prioritisation and roadmap decisions through experimentation insight.
• Strategic Influence: Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across Product Engineering and Data organisations without direct authority.
• Scaling Impact: Experience improving experimentation velocity quality and adoption through structural interventions such as frameworks automation or system redesign.
• Critical Thinking: Strong ability to evaluate experiment design statistical validity and interpretation of results and to improve the thinking of others.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead through influence driving behavioural and organisational change across multiple teams.
• Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate experimentation concepts clearly and confidently to technical and non-technical audiences.

You could be an especially great fit if you have:

• Experience improving experimentation systems governance or operating models at scale rather than only running or analysing experiments.
• Experience driving experimentation adoption across multiple product teams domains or brands.
• Experience building experimentation frameworks standards or guardrails that improve quality and consistency.
• Experience reducing organisational dependency on central experimentation or data science teams through better system design and self-service enablement.
• Experience working in high-scale product environments such as marketplaces e-commerce or travel platforms.
• Experience working in SaaS experimentation tools such as Statsig Eppo Growthbook and others
• A reputation for improving how organisations make decisions not just the quality of individual analyses or experiments.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation packages including base salary annual bonus and more.
• Work your way with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. We take a remote-friendly approach to collaboration with the option to join on-site as often as youd like in select locations.
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel wellness or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. Were here for you with resources and programs to help you through lifes challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.

Our Cultural Pillars:

• Traveller first: We exist to create value for our customer the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us.
• Execution is our edge: We act fast experiment learn from failure iterate and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile data-driven prioritised and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone elses problem and finish what can be done today knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges.
• We succeed together: The best outcomes are driven by empathic humble and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly challenge assumptions give actionable feedback and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort our learnings and our collective achievements.

Discover more in our Tech Blog for an inside look into some of our exciting and ground-breaking technical projects here at Tripadvisor Group.

Tripadvisor Group champions the unique identities abilities and experiences of all our people employees customers and partners. This stems from our belief in the transformative power of travel dining and experiences to connect us and open doors to worlds very different from our own. Our ED&I strategy shapes how we approach our people culture business and reputation. Tripadvisor Group strives to embed inclusion and belonging across all our brands.

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