Remote Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Join our team at AirDNA and contribute to empowering short-term rental hosts with smart insights needed to succeed in the ever-evolving short-term rental landscape. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will play a key role in leveraging data-driven insights to design, develop, and maintain software solutions that enable our hosts to effectively invest in short-term rentals, manage their properties, streamline operations, optimize pricing, and deliver exceptional guest experiences.

Requirements

• Bachelors, Master's or Ph.D. degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist, with a focus on software development and advanced analytics
• Proven track record of designing, developing, and deploying successful software solutions powered by data science and analytics
• Experience in short-term rental investment, revenue management, price optimization, time-series or forecasting is a strong plus
• Strong expertise in programming languages such as Python, with proficiency in data manipulation and analysis libraries (e.g., Pandas, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch or TensorFlow)
• Proficiency in SQL and database management systems
• Expertise working with large data sets in distributed systems such as pyspark and snowflake
• Experience in ML engineering, cloud-based deployment and model lifecycle management

Responsibilities

• Guide the strategy for creating or improving ML systems that empower short-term rental hosts to make better decisions
• Utilize advanced data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning techniques to extract actionable insights from complex and diverse datasets
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, and designers to define product requirements, prioritize features, and ensure the successful delivery of software tools that meet the needs of short-term rental investors and hosts
• Develop predictive models, algorithms, and optimization techniques to empower hosts in making data-driven decisions regarding comp sets, pricing strategies, occupancy rates, availability management, and revenue maximization
• Drive the implementation and integration of data science models and algorithms within the software infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in data science, machine learning, and software development, and apply emerging technologies and methodologies to enhance the capabilities and impact of our software tools
• Create and implement strategies to source and utilize short-term rental training data at scale
• Create processes to continuously monitor and improve the performance of our models

Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation and benefits
• Medical, dental, and vision packages to meet your needs
• Unlimited vacation policy; take time when you need it
• Eligible for Company’s annual discretionary bonus program
• 401K with employer match up to 4%
• Continuing education stipend
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• New MacBooks for employees