Lead, Advanced Analytics

Summary

Join Airbnb's Advanced Analytics team as an Advanced Analytics Lead, partnering with product and business leaders in the Aircover and Insurance organization. You will leverage data to drive data-informed decisions, build scalable data tools, and identify opportunities to improve guest and host experiences. A typical day involves building metrics, designing and executing A/B tests, defining performance measurements, and empowering the team with high-quality data. This role requires strong analytical skills, experience with A/B testing and statistical analysis, proficiency in programming languages (Python or R) and SQL, and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. The position is US-remote eligible with occasional office work. Compensation includes a competitive salary range and potential for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• 5+ years in industry experience and a degree (Masters or PhD is a plus) in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Operations Research)
• Expert communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with internal teams in a cross-cultural and cross-functional environment. Ability to conduct rigorous analysis and communicate conclusions to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience partnering with internal teams to drive action and providing expertise and direction on analytics, data science, experimental design, and measurement
• Experience in analysis of A|B experiments and statistical data analysis
• Experience designing and building metrics, from conception to building prototypes with data pipelines
• Strong knowledge in at least one programming language (Python or R) and in SQL
• Ability to drive data strategies, with a central source of truth to impact business decisions

Responsibilities

• Data thought partner to product and business leaders across marketplace teams through providing insights, recommendations, and enabling data informed decisions
• Drive day to day product analytics and create scalable data tools
• Identify pain points in traveling and hosting and work with product leadership to improve experiences for our guest and host community
• Build metrics and dimensions in data warehouse to support business decisions
• Working closely with Product Managers and Business leads to design, execute and evaluate A/B tests. Understand common pitfalls and caveats of experimentations
• Define how to best measure the performance of Airbnb product and business through new metrics and dimensions. Align with stakeholders, understand tradeoffs and guardrails, prototype metrics through custom data pipelines
• Empower the team to answer data questions quickly and easily by building high-quality ground truth data sets and dashboards. Collaborate with Product Engineering to spec out logging and with Analytics Engineering to build data tools for mass consumptions within Airbnb

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in insurance industry
• Knowledge and experience in customer experience measurement

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits