Capital One
Manager, Data Scientist, Travel Intelligence, Hotels
$197K–$246K
McLean, VA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Location
- McLean, VA
New York, NY - Experience
- Degree-dependent data analytics experience: 6 years with a bachelor's degree; 4 years with a master's degree or quantitatively focused MBA; or 1 year with a PhD. Also requires at least 1 year each in open-source programming for large-scale analysis, machine learning, and relational databases.
- Education
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in a quantitative field; alternatively, an MBA with a quantitative concentration for the master's pathway. Degree must be obtained by the scheduled start date.
- Visa sponsorship
- Capital One will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
About the job
Lead the technical strategy for hotel search, sorting, and pricing optimization, building machine-learning solutions for Capital One Travel in partnership with Product and Engineering.
What you'll do
- Develop and implement machine-learning models across design, training, evaluation, validation, and deployment.
- Partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver customer-focused travel products and define business metrics.
- Analyze large volumes of numeric and textual data and translate findings into business goals.
What they ask for
- Quantitative degree and data analytics experience: bachelor's plus 6 years, master's or quantitatively focused MBA plus 4 years, or PhD plus 1 year.
- At least 1 year using open-source programming languages for large-scale data analysis.
- At least 1 year working with machine learning.
- At least 1 year using relational databases.
Nice to have
- At least 1 year working with AWS.
- At least 5 years using Python, Scala, or R for large-scale data analysis, or at least 5 years working with machine learning; PhD in a STEM field plus 4 years in data analytics is also preferred.
Pay
$197,300 - $225,100 USD base salary (McLean, VA); $215,200 - $245,600 USD base salary (New York, NY)
Tools
Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark
AI focus
Build machine-learning solutions for hotel search, sorting, and pricing optimization, progressing toward real-time models.
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