Staff, Advanced Analytics, Community

Full Time
10 months ago

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join: 

  • We are looking for someone to help Airbnb enable travel for our millions of guests and hosts on our platform. This role will sit under the Advanced Analytics family and support our Host Community leadership team. 

The Difference You Will Make:

  • Data thought partner to product and business leaders across host community teams, providing insights, recommendations, and enabling data informed decisions
  • Help define strategy and roadmap, and drive major cross-functional projects
  • Drive day to day analytics
  • Contribute towards advancing the Analytics and Data Science disciplines

A Typical Day: 

  • Providing insights, recommendations, and enabling data informed decisions.  Help define strategy and roadmap, and drive major cross-functional projects to product and business leaders across host community teams
  • Deep understanding and executing day to day analytics 
  • Develop a deep understanding of how guests and hosts interact with our product and services through structured and unstructured data sources.
  • Design, execute and evaluate A/B tests. Understanding common pitfalls and caveats when designing and evaluating results.
  • Define how to best measure the performance of Airbnb product and business through new metrics and dimensions, defining an incrementality framework, and defining  attribution logic.
  • Empower the team to answer data questions quickly and easily by building self-serve analytics tools such as high-quality ground truth data sets and dashboards, collaborating with Engineering teams.
  • Contribute towards advancing the Analytics and Data Science disciplines at Airbnb, including driving data best practices such as improving and automating analytical processes, building new data tools and data sets, data education around the company and mentoring and developing others.

Your Expertise:

  • 9+ years in industry experience and a degree (Masters or PhD is a plus) in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science).
  • Experience in a Product Analytics or Data Science role
  • Expert communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with internal teams in a cross-cultural and cross-functional environment.
  • Ability to communicate actionable insights and recommendations to leadership teams.
  • Expertise in A/B experiments and statistical data analysis
  • Experience designing and building metrics, from conception to building prototypes with data pipelines
  • Strong knowledge  in at least one programming language (Python or R) and in SQL
  • Ability to drive data strategies, with a central source of truth to impact business decisions

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  

Pay Range$170,000—$210,000 USD