Staff Data Scientist, Locations

Details

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 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.

Responsibilities

• Build a deep understanding of the locations space through technical analysis and translate insights into impactful user-facing location data products or assets.
• Drive exploration, development, and prototyping of innovative location data products in close partnership with product and engineering stakeholders.
• Explore both internal and external data sources to derive impactful location assets.
• Quantify the impact of launched data products through experimentation and/or causal inference techniques.
• Research new approaches to measure items like location relevance and map behaviors to understand how they tie to user satisfaction and business outcomes.

Requirements

• Advanced degree (PhD or Masters) in Data Science, Statistics, Geographic Information Systems, Econometrics, or a related field.
• 9+ years of relevant industry experience (6+ with a PhD).
• Prior experience working with geospatial data strongly preferred.
• Hands on experience using LLMs for information retrieval or knowledge extraction preferred; related NLP, CV, UGC/content understanding experience is a plus.
• Proven ability to effectively communicate and influence at various altitudes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Prior experience working with cross-functional partners like product, engineering, and design to enable data-driven product development.
• Familiarity prototyping, building, and scaling derived data assets.

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. Check the up-to-date list of excluded states.

Benefits

This role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. Base pay range depends on factors such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands.

Our Commitment

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible, fostering diversity and inclusion, and providing a disability inclusive application and interview process.