Treebo Hotels - Data Scientist

Treebo data scientist role

About Treebo

Treebo is a new age technology driven hotel brand offering comfortable stays at budget prices. Unlike most hotel aggregates, we operate on a franchise based model where we manage every touch point between an end user and a hotel. This helps Treebo in driving the complete experience the end customer would have while interacting with us. We use technology to not only enhance the booking experience but also the stay and post stay experience.

Staying at low-priced hotels has always meant making compromises on quality. One could book online but could hardly avoid the unwelcoming rooms and the indifferent service. At Treebo, we are putting dignity back into budget travel with our unmatched 100% Quality Guarantee. While trying to drive quality, we also need to achieve high levels of efficiency to meet the constraints of working in budget segment of hospitality industry. To achieve such high efficiency and quality at the same time across customers engagement, hotel partners, internal hotel management, we are using cutting edge technology across all our products.

Today Treebo hotels is India's 3rd largest hotel chain and has over 200 hotels in more than 40 Indian cities.

Our growth story and USP has been aptly captured in this article on Inc42: https://inc42.com/startups/treebo-growth-story/amp/.

A bit more on our growth plans and ambition can be read in this recent ET story:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/hotels-/-restaurants/treebo-hotels-eyes-1500-properties-in-150-cities-by-2018/articleshow/55648368.cms

About RMS@Treebo

While revenue management has been around in the hospitality industry for long, it has been lagging way behind its equivalent in the airline industry in its sophistication. Major reasons for this has been low penetration of technology and digital record keeping in hotel industry and lack of big hotel chains who understand technology well.

At Treebo, we understand how efficiently matching demand-supply using dynamic pricing can be the secret sauce of scaling up and driving profitability. Things which make pricing a very challenging problem for us is our scale, a highly variable and price sensitive demand and a perishable supply.

Every hotel in our Treebo chain has some unique features due to its location or amenities and hence, they demonstrate a unique demand generation pattern. Similarly, every customer has unique preferences which itself changes with time. To build out an efficient RMS, we need to connect all the dots using data from a lot of internal and external sources and figure out accurate models that help us predict the demand and optimum price for every hotel room of ours. And to make all this possible, we are trying to build out the most sophisticated revenue management system from grounds up at Treebo.

Data scientist role and requirements

We are building out our Data Sciences team from scratch. While RMS would be the first major challenge in front of this team, we have some equally challenging problems in Quality Control and Customer Insights lined up as well.

We are looking for our first data scientist, who would help us build out the Data Sciences team under him and also deliver great business impact by solving these complex problems. This role would give successful candidates an opportunity to own and build out end to end data science products - from translating business problems to their mathematical equivalent, selecting the relevant feature sets, building required ML models and taking them to implementation.

We are looking for senior Data Scientists who have solved large scale Business problems using data and have experience of owning end to end data science projects. Successful candidates should be able to work with minimal instruction and oversight, conduct multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, maintain relationships with senior leaders, and own deliverables end to end.

Overall experience: 4-8 years.