Staff Data Scientist, Guest & HostPosted today$200K

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

  • Partner directly on growth initiatives to build, ship, measure incrementality: of bookings/attach rate/revenue, and optimize 0-to-1 customer-facing features

  • Thought partnership with Product to define strategy, sequence iteration,: scale impact via science frameworks and as the go-to tech lead around data, experimentation, and domain understanding

  • Build observational causal inference models to deeply understand guest: intent, identify underlying mechanisms, and build data products to measure impact, and inform feature objectives and tradeoffs

  • Champion AI-enabled Product Understanding, to scale data-driven frameworks,: robust measurement, and compelling storytelling of data learnings to guide recommendations and roadmaps with senior leaders

  • Develop a pricing guidance system for hosts as well as experimental and: observational methods to measure the impact of pricing feature launches.

  • Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to pioneer pricing: strategies and translate advanced modeling into actionable recommendations

What they're looking for

  • Develop foundational models and experimental approaches that balance supply: and demand in the marketplace, leveraging empirical methods to assess and iterate on pricing feature impact
  • Craft compelling data narratives to surface actionable insights, empower: data-driven decision making and influence the future direction of Airbnb’s pricing ecosystem
  • Develop models and analytic frameworks that improve listing ranking and: recommendation. This includes incorporating marketplace dynamics such as listing availability, supply quality, and long-term ecosystem health into ranking decisions.
  • Partner closely with Machine Learning Engineers and Product to launch: high-impact search improvements. Design experiments and evaluation frameworks to understand the impact of search and AI-driven product improvements.