Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics

Summary

Join Airbnb's growing Experiences and Guest Services team as a Principal, a highly visible role partnering with senior leadership. You will drive business outcomes through strategic analysis, financial modeling, and cross-functional collaboration. This role requires strong analytical and communication skills, experience in scaling marketplace businesses, and the ability to create compelling narratives for senior executives. You will develop KPIs, manage marketplace health, and contribute to go-to-market strategies. The position is US-remote eligible with occasional office work. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years of demonstrated relevant experience in an analytical role such as strategic finance, strategy consulting, biz ops, investment banking, data science, or business intelligence
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, accounting, engineering, statistics or other relevant field that demonstrates quantitative orientation
• Strong knowledge of SQL or some other querying language and using those tools to help synthesize complex information
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft clear, compelling narratives that are appropriate for consumption by the C-Suite and senior executives
• Superb financial modeling skills and extensive experience conducting quantitative and qualitative financial analysis
• Demonstrated ability to work and influence cross-functionally

Responsibilities

• Develop insightful recommendations based on hands-on analytics, financial modeling, and strategic analyses
• Synthesize insights and data from across the company into a single, contextualized view that provides clear, compelling recommendations that drive business impact
• Drive operational rigor and performance management, including development and ongoing analysis of KPIs, dashboards, creating goals/OKRs, and holding the business accountable to those goals
• Create new frameworks to proactively manage the marketplace health of our nascent Experiences and Services business
• Assess supply / demand balance and the performance of our new supply, with an eye towards informing our supply acquisition and retention strategy
• Partner in the development of rigorous business plans and go-to-market strategy
• Develop a deep understanding of what drives growth and efficiency for Airbnb’s business, and partner with the leadership team to translate insights into action
• In partnership with key stakeholders, Identify step-change opportunities in areas of outsized impact through quantitative analysis, industry benchmarks, and competitive research
• Be a role model of Airbnb’s Core Values

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree
• Experience in helping scale marketplace businesses from zero to one

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits