What is a Data Scientist at Hopper?
A Data Scientist at Hopper sits at the intersection of product innovation, financial engineering, and predictive modeling. Hopper is not just a travel booking platform; it is a fintech powerhouse that leverages massive datasets to eliminate anxiety from travel planning. From predicting future flight prices to managing the risk profiles of products like Price Freeze and Cancel for Any Reason, data science is the engine that drives the company’s revenue and customer retention.
As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for transforming billions of real-time search and pricing data points into actionable product features. You will collaborate closely with product managers, business leaders, and engineers to design algorithms that predict market volatility and optimize user conversion. Your work directly impacts how millions of travelers budget for their trips, making this role both highly visible and intellectually challenging.
The work environment at Hopper is fast-paced, highly autonomous, and deeply quantitative. To succeed here, you must possess not only strong technical skills in programming and statistics but also a keen product sense. The team values individuals who can look at a complex, messy dataset and extract strategic insights that can be immediately deployed to improve the user experience and drive business growth.



