Airbnb Principal Strategic Finance & Analytics – Experiences Guest Service 

United States 

555725204

A Typical Day

• 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

Your Expertise

• 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. MBA or advanced degree a plus
• Strong knowledge of SQL or some other querying language and using those tools to help synthesize complex information is a must. You must be comfortable manipulating large datasets, creating new analytical frameworks, and extracting actionable insights from that data.
• 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. 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
• Experience in helping scale marketplace businesses from zero to one is a plus

Offices: United States