Staff, Advanced Analytics, Incubations

Details

Airbnb is seeking a Staff, Advanced Analytics professional to serve as the analytics owner and strategic partner for Long-Term Stay & Luxe. The role will set the measurement and experimentation agenda, build quantitative models that support business growth, and operate as a peer to product and business leadership in a high-ambiguity, rapidly evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end analytics strategy and roadmap for Long-Term Stay & Luxe, determining what to measure, what to test, and where the greatest leverage exists.
• Build and evolve quantitative models for supply-demand balance, marketplace liquidity, pricing, take-rate, lifetime value (LTV), and forecasting.
• Build the underlying data models and pipelines supporting these quantitative models.
• Design and analyze experiments across pricing, search and ranking, host onboarding, and guest conversion.
• Develop causal-inference approaches, including holdouts, proxy metrics, and quasi-experimental methods, when randomized trials are not feasible because of lower volumes or longer booking cycles.
• Act as a strategic partner to product, general management, and cross-functional leaders by surfacing insights and recommendations and shaping product, experimentation, and investment priorities.
• Build scalable, self-serve reporting and OKR tracking to provide leadership with real-time visibility into the businesses.
• Operate effectively in conditions of ambiguity, shifting priorities, and high intensity.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in analytics, data science, or a similar quantitative role.
• Experience operating as a proactive strategic partner to senior product and business leaders.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical detail and present clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to build and ship quantitative models, including supply-demand, pricing, matching, LTV, and forecasting models, as well as the underlying logic and data pipelines.
• Experience designing and interpreting A/B experiments.
• Experience with causal-inference methods when traditional testing is not feasible.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with a marketplace business and/or incubating a business from 0 to 1.
• Experience with supply-demand modeling or geo-based analytics in a marketplace setting.
• Exposure to growth marketing analytics, including SEM, paid social, and performance channels.
• Awareness of emerging AI/LLM-driven discovery and search trends and their implications for organic traffic and demand generation strategy.
• Familiarity with marketing analytics and measurement methodologies, including marketing mix modeling (MMM), attribution, and campaign performance frameworks.

Location

This position is US remote eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager. The employee must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Benefits

The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. The base pay range is subject to change and depends on factors including training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands.