Airbnb Staff Data Scientist Marketplace 

United States 

68315037

The Community You Will Join:

You will join a team dedicated to driving innovation and optimizing our dynamic Marketplace. As a member of the Marketplace Data Science team, you will tackle challenges at the core of our business, including pricing, supply management, and fee strategies. Collaborating with leaders across the company, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our marketplace.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be responsible for building data products, inference frameworks, and intelligence to enable the growth of our marketplace. Your work will include:

• Specifying and estimating models to determine the specific supply that would be most incremental to Airbnb’s growth
• Delivering data and insights to enable the company’s supply growth efforts
• Providing mentorship to other data scientists and exemplifying a high bar for technical excellence

A Typical Day:

• Crafting models: You will develop models to accurately forecast key marketplace metrics, enabling proactive decision-making and strategic planning.
• Advanced causal inference: Utilizing cutting-edge causal inference techniques, you will quantify the impact of changes in supply and demand on the marketplace, informing targeted improvements and interventions.
• Cross-functional collaboration: You will actively collaborate with teams across product, engineering, and operations to integrate data science insights into initiatives aimed at enhancing supply acquisition, retention, and success.
• Stakeholder engagement: You will engage with stakeholders to understand their business objectives and provide data-driven solutions tailored to these goals.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience and a Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative field
• Strong fluency in Python or R for hands-on IC work and SQL for advanced data analysis at scale
• Experience with causal inference and machine learning techniques, ideally in a multi-sided platform setting
• Proven ability to succeed in collaborative environments with cross-functional stakeholders and also in independent work environments
• Proven ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels