Staff Data Scientist, Guest & Host

🕒 April 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $242k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📊 Data Scientist

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Airbnb

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

✈️ Travel

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Travel • Logistics • eCommerce

Airbnb is a global online marketplace that connects people looking for accommodation with hosts offering unique and diverse lodging options, often in residential properties. Users can book spaces ranging from one-bedroom apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Airbnb also offers experiences, allowing guests to book activities hosted by locals, providing an authentic travel experience.

📋 Description

• Partner on growth initiatives to build, ship, measure incrementality of bookings, attach rate, and revenue, and optimize 0-to-1 customer-facing features • Partner with Product to define strategy, sequence iteration, scale impact through science frameworks, and serve as the technical lead for data, experimentation, and domain understanding • Build observational causal inference models to understand guest intent, identify underlying mechanisms, and build data products that measure impact and inform feature objectives and tradeoffs • Champion AI-enabled Product Understanding to scale data-driven frameworks, robust measurement, and data storytelling for senior-leader recommendations and roadmaps • Develop pricing guidance systems for hosts and experimental and observational methods to measure pricing feature impact • Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to develop pricing strategies and translate advanced modeling into actionable recommendations • Develop foundational models and experimental approaches balancing marketplace supply and demand • Craft data narratives that surface actionable insights and influence Airbnb’s pricing ecosystem • Develop models and analytic frameworks improving listing ranking and recommendations, incorporating availability, supply quality, and long-term ecosystem health • Partner with Machine Learning Engineers and Product to launch search improvements and design experiments and evaluation frameworks • Build scalable data products and modeling pipelines for ranking features, query understanding, and personalization • Set technical direction for modeling and experimentation in search, ranking, and personalization

🎯 Requirements

• Causal inference expertise • Experience with machine learning techniques in a marketplace product setting • 9+ years of relevant industry experience • Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative field • Strong coding skills in SQL and either Python or R • Comfort with building proof-of-concept prototypes • Passion for AI and a learner’s attitude • Ability to succeed in collaborative environments with cross-functional stakeholders and independently • Ability to autonomously set a roadmap for business impact • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Equity eligibility • Benefits eligibility • Employee Travel Credits • Remote-eligible work arrangement • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities