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. The Community You Will Join:  We are looking for an Advanced Analytics Lead to help Airbnb enable travel for our millions of guests and hosts on our platform. This role will sit under the Advanced Analytics family and support Product and Business leaders within our CS organization. The Difference You Will Make: Data thought partner to product and business leaders across teams through providing insights, recommendations, and enabling data informed decisions   Drive day to day analytics and create scalable data tools Identify pain points in traveling and hosting and work with product leadership to improve experiences for our guest, host and agent community In addition, you will leverage Airbnb’s rich and unique data, state-of-art machine learning infrastructure, and other central data science tools to build and grow the measurement capacity within the organization. You will also be deeply involved in the technical details of the various systems we build, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with a strong team of engineers, product managers, designers and operations agents to achieve shared, cross-functional goals to help keep Airbnb’s community safe and trusted.  You are passionate about solving complex problems within the Community support domain with data & insights; adding a new perspective to existing solutions and making business decisions based on careful and thoughtful analysis You are highly proficient in building and analyzing analytical frameworks, statistical models and experimentation methods to establish and communicate causal relationships You are a storyteller who uses complex data and insights to frame narratives to bring others along the journey

A Typical Day

• Data thought partner to product and business leaders across teams through providing insights, recommendations, and enabling data informed decisions
• Drive day to day analytics and create scalable data tools
• Identify pain points in traveling and hosting and work with product leadership to improve experiences for our guest, host and agent community
• Leverage Airbnb’s rich and unique data, state-of-art machine learning infrastructure, and other central data science tools to build and grow the measurement capacity within the organization
• Deeply involved in the technical details of the various systems we build
• Collaborate with a strong team of engineers, product managers, designers and operations agents to achieve shared, cross-functional goals to help keep Airbnb’s community safe and trusted
• Lead and drive data-driven roadmaps for the CS working groups
• Recommend actionable solutions backed by data and metrics to product problems, with the ability to effectively communicate with Product, Operations & Engineering managers of varying technical levels
• Build the business insights & reporting platform to detect and support the driving efficacy and efficiency of behaviors and product interfaces and processes across CS platform and contact center network
• Perform data modeling of the various entities and using tools & frameworks for optimizing community and agent experiences
• Defining and evaluating key metrics in an unstructured problem space including measurement of the ML models that drive product development
• Communicating a robust understanding of what moves these metrics and why
• Influence data-driven decisions across business verticals in day-to-day via business reviews, scorecards, self-serve portal, OKRs and planning among others
• Influence experimentation & measurement strategies; conduct power analyses, define exit criteria, and use statistical models to improve inference

Your Expertise

• A minimum of 10+ years of industry experience in business analytics
• A degree (Masters or PhD is a plus) in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Operations Research)
• Have experience supporting community support and/or have worked closely with operations teams
• Ability to work under conditions of ambiguity in a fast-growth, sometimes uncertain and complex environment - comfortable acting with minimal planning, direction, and supervision
• You can identify issues both within and outside of your immediate scope, and propose solutions

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits

How We'll Take Care of You

$176,000—$220,000 USD