Senior Data Storyteller in Constanţa

Job Description

At Booking.com, data is the cornerstone of our business, it helps us to understand the customer, the market and our competitors so that we can make meaningful and informed decisions in our product and marketing development

The Senior Brand Data Storyteller makes data meaningful for our team members that may struggle to understand, interpret and digest data.   Primarily to inspire our creative teams who are building big ideas that are connected with our customers needs, wants and behaviours.

You are the bridge between our creatives and the analysts/researchers that collate our data.  You are the person that uncovers, understands, translates and presents the data to teams in powerful ways that make impact.

You have a passion for the story the data tells, always digging to find the meaningful patterns and trends, actionable insights and intriguing stories our internal and external data contains.

Your experience tells you to let the data lead us on a journey, you don’t wait to be asked, you build the stimulus that makes creative work worth starting and then support the teams through the creation to help them hold true to the story and the accuracy of any data utilised.

The successful candidate will be a key member of the Brand Strategy and Planning team. You will be responsible for pinpointing the useful data to meaningful campaigns, providing data to be used in campaigns, working with agencies and creatives to ensure accurate and compliant use of the data and making data a valuable part of the brand creative journey.   

B.Responsible

• Leads and inspires others with the power of data, regularly delivering insightful narratives that help our creative teams build meaningful and relevant campaigns for the consumer
• Owns the data and the story the data tells for our campaigns, collaborating with the creative teams and using data led insights to design meaningful campaign manifestos
• Lead the use of our YouTube brand analytics, ensuring the data can be used to maximise the value of our content to both customers and the business
• Leads the need for data, recognises the opportunities to introduce data, challenges details of inbound research requests, proposes solid data solutions and works with the analytical and research teams to deliver the data needs
• Lead the utilisation of our data.  Digest, interpret, present and socialize insights across all levels of the organization, primarily colleagues and creative people where data and analysis is not a strength
• Works independently and is a reference to others in their craft on data collection and preparation, data visualization and data quality
• Ensures scalability, reproducibility and long term orientation in the work they do 
• Applies knowledge of data compliance and ethics in all of their activities
• Challenges the status quo within the team, department and wider analytics group
• Is familiar with the larger data ecosystem and measurement at Booking and how it relates to their data and the work they do 
• Work with our product teams to monitor and measure key metrics for how our product performs against the metrics we define for our brand
• Communicates effectively, collaboratively and challenges constructively to create rapport and establish trust. 
• Networks, proactively connects and coaches craft peers beyond the team scope. 
• Collaborates and is open to giving and receiving feedback with peers and direct stakeholders 
• Holds other to account for the accurate use of data to ensure it is never misused or misrepresented

B.Skilled

• Expertise in data journalism, always looking for the story in the data
• Expertise with data analysis languages (e.g. R, Python, SQL)
• Has strong data visualization skills and storytelling.
• Experience with data visualisation tool like Tableau
• Understanding and working knowledge of YouTube analytics is desirable
• Able to tell signal from noise in the data
• Driven and results oriented personality
• A proactive team player who can use data to initiate and inspire others, while also being able to take and solve a brief.
• Can explain complex analytical findings/solutions to non-technical stakeholders
• Open to feedback and always looking for ways to improve own performance
• Able to understand details while keeping an eye on the bigger picture.
• Able to spot opportunities to drive business growth from their craft.
• Analytical and curious mindset
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Open and friendly attitude
• Expertise and experience on data analysis.
• Strong data management, data visualization and quality.
• Passionate about branding, travel and understanding consumer attitudes and behaviour
• Excellent organizational skills, able to manage competing priorities and deliver under tight deadlines

B.Offered

• Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travellers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.