Senior Analytics Partner, People Analytics

Expedia Group•Seattle, WA

1d•$173,000 - $277,000

About The Position

Expedia Group’s People Analytics team is seeking a Senior Analytics Partner within its Analytics Partnership function. This senior expert and consultant shapes and delivers the analytics agenda for divisions and Centers of Excellence, combining strategic thinking with hands-on analysis and execution. The role uses analytics to enable data-driven strategies and decisions that deliver business impact. The position leads end-to-end analytics projects, translates business and people priorities into analytics strategies, develops measurement approaches and metrics, and turns complex analysis into clear visualizations and executive-ready narratives. It also improves recurring work through documentation and automation and helps productize analytics into AI-native experiences connected to business decisions. The Senior Analytics Partner consults with HR partners, Talent Partners, Centers of Excellence, and senior business leaders; supports people insights, organizational health, talent, and engagement survey work; and helps partners build data literacy and use insights products. The role also collaborates across People Analytics with Machine Learning Science, Data Engineering, and Product teams to validate models, improve data quality, shape product roadmaps, and share team knowledge. It models Expedia Group’s behaviors of putting the traveler first, thinking big, operating with excellence, ownership, and succeeding together.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience in People Analytics and consulting or stakeholder-facing roles.
Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Analytics, Data Science, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or a related quantitative or behavioral field.
Fluency in R or Python, SQL, and Tableau.
Experience working with large, unstructured data; extracting data from multiple sources and combining it into datasets for analytics and modeling.
Advanced understanding of common data models, their assumptions, the business questions they address, and the data needed to support them.
Experience applying advanced statistical methods, such as predictive modeling, to business challenges and selecting appropriately straightforward techniques.
Experience designing and executing employee listening programs and interpreting their results.
Proficiency using AI to accelerate analytics, including framing problems, prompt engineering, and assessing the quality of AI-generated code.
Ability to produce a high volume of analytics work at pace with strong attention to detail.
Business acumen, problem-framing, and critical thinking, with the ability to align People Analytics with business strategy and guide decisions.
Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, including independently producing clear, simple, executive-ready narratives and presenting to senior leaders.
Experience operating in complex, global, matrixed organizations as an influential individual contributor who leads through expertise, influence, and relationships rather than direct authority.
Success building trusted relationships with HR partners and business leaders at all levels.
Resilience, agility, and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-changing environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Qualtrics and Databricks.
Organizational network analysis (ONA) experience.

Responsibilities

Translate business and people priorities into analytics opportunities and strategies that drive measurable business impact.
Independently lead end-to-end analytics projects, from clarifying business questions and scoping a statement of work to selecting analytical approaches, iterating with stakeholders, and delivering executive-ready narratives and recommendations.
Turn complex data and analyses into clear visualizations and stories for technical and non-technical audiences.
Develop measurement strategies and define, build, and test metrics for organizational health assessments, talent reviews, QBRs/MBRS, and program or product impact.
Document and automate recurring analytics tasks and deliverables to improve efficiency, quality, and speed.
Bridge HR and business customers with the product team to help productize analytics into AI-native, simplified experiences tied to business decisions.
Partner with HR Business Partners, Talent Partners, Centers of Excellence, and senior business leaders to influence strategies and decisions through data.
Identify and deliver strategic analytics, metric development, organizational health insights, and talent insights to improve organizational effectiveness and business impact.
Enable partners to self-serve with people insights products while handling complex and ambiguous analytics needs directly.
Design and deliver learning labs, office hours, and coaching to improve partners’ data literacy, product fluency, and AI-assisted analytics skills.
Support engagement surveys by interpreting and delivering division- or COE-level insights and recommending actions.
Manage and prioritize analytics requests using clear principles and business and organizational knowledge to deliver high-impact work on time.
Coordinate feedback sessions for product design, user acceptance testing, pilots, and go-to-market strategy.
Provide peer feedback, reusable code and templates, thought leadership on analytical methods, and business context to fellow Analytics Partners.
Partner with Machine Learning Science to validate and scale models for business value.
Monitor data quality and needs and partner with Data Engineering on new data sources, issue resolution, and table optimization.
Share user needs and feedback with the Product team, influence roadmaps and feature prioritization, improve product user experience, and define business requirements for product development and enhancements.
Deliver knowledge exchange sessions to share best practices and project outcomes and advance People Analytics team capabilities.
Role model Expedia Group’s behaviors in analytics prioritization, innovation, execution, ownership, collaboration, and delivery.