Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests, facilitating unique stays and experiences. They are seeking a Staff Data Scientist to join the Guest and Host Data Science organization, focusing on data-driven decisions and product development to enhance their marketplace. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive growth through experimentation, modeling, and insights.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly on growth initiatives to build, ship, measure incrementality of bookings/attach rate/revenue, and optimize 0-to-1 customer-facing features
- Thought partnership with Product to define strategy, sequence iteration, scale impact via science frameworks and as the go-to tech lead around data, experimentation, and domain understanding
- Build observational causal inference models to deeply understand guest intent, identify underlying mechanisms, and build data products to measure impact, and inform feature objectives and tradeoffs
- Champion AI-enabled Product Understanding, to scale data-driven frameworks, robust measurement, and compelling storytelling of data learnings to guide recommendations and roadmaps with senior leaders
- Develop a pricing guidance system for hosts as well as experimental and observational methods to measure the impact of pricing feature launches
- Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to pioneer pricing strategies and translate advanced modeling into actionable recommendations
- Develop foundational models and experimental approaches that balance supply and demand in the marketplace, leveraging empirical methods to assess and iterate on pricing feature impact
- Craft compelling data narratives to surface actionable insights, empower data-driven decision making and influence the future direction of Airbnb’s pricing ecosystem
- Develop models and analytic frameworks that improve listing ranking and recommendation. This includes incorporating marketplace dynamics such as listing availability, supply quality, and long-term ecosystem health into ranking decisions
- Partner closely with Machine Learning Engineers and Product to launch high-impact search improvements. Design experiments and evaluation frameworks to understand the impact of search and AI-driven product improvements
- Build scalable data products and modeling pipelines that power ranking features, query understanding, and personalization. Your work will help enable the next generation of AI-powered search experiences at Airbnb
- Connect marketplace thinking, modeling, and experimentation across teams and set the technical direction for modeling and experimentation in search, ranking and personalization
Skills
- Causal inference expertise. Experience with machine learning techniques in a marketplace product setting
- 9+ years of relevant industry experience and a Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative field
- Strong coding skills in SQL and either Python or R
- Comfort with building proof-of-concept prototypes. Passionate about AI and possessing a learner's attitude
- Proven ability to be driven and succeed in collaborative environments with cross-functional stakeholders and also in independent work settings. Ability to autonomously set a roadmap for business impact
- Proven ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
Company Overview
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