Senior Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics

Summary

Join Airbnb's finance & strategy team as a Senior Principal to drive growth and operational excellence within the Airbnb Stays Supply division. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, leveraging analytical skills and financial modeling expertise to identify new revenue opportunities, evaluate initiatives, and enhance operational efficiency. This role involves developing go-to-market strategies, creating compelling narratives for senior executives, and partnering with business leaders to translate insights into action. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and has a proven track record of driving impactful change. This is a US-remote eligible position with occasional office work or offsite attendance.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, accounting, engineering, statistics or other relevant field that demonstrates quantitative orientation
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to put together clear, compelling narratives that are appropriate for consumption by senior executives including the CEO, CFO, and other senior leaders
• Superb financial modeling skills and extensive experience conducting quantitative and qualitative financial analysis
• Deep experience and understanding of two sided marketplaces, development of market entry strategies, and helping scale businesses
• The ability to work and influence cross-functionally is a must. You are proactive, great at communicating with different audiences and can bring stakeholders on-board. You seek out and have a track record for driving change and impact in a fluid, unstructured working environment

Responsibilities

• Develop insightful recommendations based on hands-on analytics, financial modeling, and strategic analyses
• Help bring together insights and data from across the company into a single, synthesized view that provides the company with clear, compelling recommendations that drive impact
• Support development of business strategy and drive outcomes across our Host communities
• Develop a deep understanding of what drives growth and efficiency for our business, and partner with the leadership team to translate insights into action
• Identify step-change opportunities by partnering with key stakeholders to identify areas of outsized impact through quantitative analysis, industry benchmarks, and competitive research
• Create business cases for new initiatives with an investor mindset, and help leadership prioritize resourcing
• Partner with the business in driving operational rigor and performance management, including development and ongoing analysis of KPIs, dashboards, creating goals/OKRs, and holding the business accountable to those goals

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree
• Strong knowledge of SQL or some other querying language and using those tools to help synthesize complex information

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits