Senior Staff Data Scientist, Guest & Host Marketplace AIActive$224K

The opportunity

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…

What you'll do

  • Learn: Develop deep understanding of how guests navigate and re-engage with: our app via analysis, research, and by leveraging granular user action and sequence datasets.

  • Partner: With product and engineering, drive technical frameworks and science: leadership to explore innovative paradigms for detecting revealed preferences and quantifying online frictions.

  • Build: Write code for prototypes to detect and quantify taxonomy of guest: preferences via iterative development of data frameworks, models and artefacts derived from AI toolkits

  • Evaluate: Assess assumptions and efficacy of derived guest preferences via: measurement and validating hypotheses linked to online guest action and engagement. Setup experiments and data feedback loops to own a high bar over continuous impact.

  • Influence: Regularly present findings and recommendations to leadership: audiences to inform strategy and cross-functional deliverables.

  • If you’re passionate about going deep into personalized user experiences, we want to hear from you!

What they're looking for

  • Causal inference expertise with marketplace experience
  • Preferred domain experience in search, UX discovery, personalized evidence systems
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Econometrics or related field.
  • + years of industry experience with a PhD (or 12+ years with a Masters)