Team Lead, Financial Analytics, AI/ML Optimization

🕒 June 24

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Hopper

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201 - 500 employees

🏨 Hospitality

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

💰 $96M Venture Round on 2022-11

Hospitality • Logistics • Travel

Hopper is a travel booking platform that offers a one-stop solution for planning trips, including flights, hotels, rental cars, and homes. The platform features advanced options such as price prediction, disruption assistance, and the Price Freeze™ feature, allowing travelers to secure deals and manage changes conveniently. Hopper is known for its mobile app availability on iOS and Android, providing a streamlined experience for its users. It serves millions of travelers worldwide, offering VIP support and various affiliate programs for partners.

📋 Description

• Provide actionable insights to inform business decisions based on financial analytics and data. • Drive the strategy, governance, and execution of the data warehouse for the general ledger. • Build and lead a center of excellence for cloud and performance reporting, including infrastructure management and KPIs for the finance team and business units. • Define, drive, implement, and measure the success of the financial AI automation roadmap, in partnership with FP&A, accounting, and data teams. • Establish data pipelines and the foundational components for AI models. • Understand and optimize our GCP infrastructure costs, in partnership with engineering and FinOps. • Position the finance organization as the single source of truth for financial and commercial performance, and create self-service analytics tools for key stakeholders. • Manage a team of 4 engineers and 1 Finance & Strategy Manager. • Implement internal controls and support external audits related to data governance.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of work experience in the travel industry and/or SaaS. • Bachelor's degree required; Master’s degree strongly preferred or equivalent experience. • Preferably an engineering background. • Proficiency in SQL, Python, GCP, and data science, with a proven ability to be hands-on with code. • Understanding of systems based on large language models (LLMs), prompt design, and AI model evaluation frameworks. • Familiarity with automation environments and observability tools (Amplitude, Datadog, Looker) to assess reliability and performance. • Strong skills in reconciling data from large, multi-source datasets. • A natural tendency toward first-principles thinking — questioning assumptions, testing process resilience, and always seeking to understand the “why.” • Excellent communication skills with senior leadership and external partners. • Comfort with ambiguity and a proven track record of building from the ground up.

🏖️ Benefits

• A well-funded, established startup with global ambitions, offering a competitive salary and the potential for a pre-IPO equity participation program (stock options). • Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for your group insurance plan. • Comprehensive life and short-term and long-term disability coverage. • Health Spending Account (HSA) covering eligible medical and dental expenses. • Free, unlimited access to Dialogue telemedicine services for all employees and their dependents, anytime and anywhere. • Access to a retirement savings plan (RRSP) with automatic pre-tax payroll contributions each pay period. • Extremely generous parental leave, well above industry norms (ask us about it!). • Unlimited paid time off (PTO). • Travel allowances via “Carrot Credit.” • On-demand access to coworking spaces via FlexDesk AND a home-office allowance. • An entrepreneurial culture where pushing boundaries and taking risks is encouraged. • Open, direct communication with company leadership and business leaders. • Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.