Director, Vrbo Brand Analytics

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Director, Vrbo Brand Analytics 

Introduction to the team

The Traveler Business Team has a mission to deliver the most convenient, rewarding, and memorable ways for people to travel and explore the world. This division has responsibility to build and drive the growth of our global consumer business across our Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, and Portfolio brands, and across all our lines of businesses including Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Air, Car, Packages, and Insurtech.

Expedia Group is seeking a dynamic, motivated leader to join the Expedia Brands team as a Director within our Marketing Analytics Organization.

This is a great opportunity to join the surging travel industry and help drive the business forward while working on impactful and complex problems. If you are energized by the idea of delivering business outcomes by rolling up your sleeves, bringing teams together and making an impact, then you'll be a great fit!

In this role, you will lead the analytics team for our Vrbo brand. You and your team will provide powerful insights that will shape our understanding of the drivers of the Vrbo brand and help us forecast and plan for future performance. As a director, you will work with your stakeholders to define your roadmap and work closely with other analytics teams to develop and implement solutions that optimize our investments and improve profitability. You will lead and coach a diverse team of analysts who partner with business owners to deliver insights and decisions that benefit the organization.

In this role, you will:  

• You will lead a team of analysts to deliver against a broad range of projects

• Work independently and with other analytics teams across the business to understand the drivers of our performance

• Conduct analysis to identify new opportunities and help shape and track performance of initiatives as they progress

• Work with your business partners to support the creation of robust forecasts and anticipate future performance drivers before they happen

• Support our weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting cycles where we define KPIs, review the performance of the business and make recommendations on how to improve our investments and operations to drive superior future performance

• Build a great team and support the Marketing Analytics Community

Experience and qualifications: 

• 8+ years’ experience in a similar analytical role; tech/travel industry preferred 

• Experience directly managing a team or demonstrated leadership skills in a senior-level role 

• Excellent analytical problem-solving skills and strong commercial acumen  

• Strong experience in big data manipulation; leveraging SQl and/or other coding languages to create recommendations, presentations and dashboards.

• Innovative and strategic thinker with demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to solutions; prior experiences tackling vague problems, crisply framing the challenges and identifying a path forward  

• ​Demonstrated project and partner management skills, working with multiple teams across several countries  

• Skilled in engaging with stakeholders across all levels, including VPs/SVPs, and communicating complex concepts concisely and clearly 

• Brings extensive experience and strategic thought leadership to contribute insights and decisions beneficial to the organization  

• Picks analytically valid approaches, appropriate in terms of level of effort, favoring iterative delivery that solve for the objective, not the ask (i.e. not just order taking) 

• Uses advanced and sophisticated understanding of the business problem space to inform the design of the solution 

• Curious – Willing to learn and always striving for better  

• Impact-oriented – Keen to make a d