Senior Data Scientist, Guest & Host
Job Description
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community You Will Join:
You will join a collaborative team of data scientists, analysts, engineers, product managers and designers who build innovative products for Airbnb guests and hosts. Your core team will consist of data scientists within the Guest & Host Data Science organization, who develop models, foundational tools, and insights to improve the Airbnb marketplace and product.
The Difference You Will Make:
As a member of our team, you will play a key role in building user-friendly, optimized Airbnb products and tools that empower our hosts to thrive on our platform, while also making it easy for guests to discover and book stays that perfectly match their needs. Your work might include developing innovative programs, such as a host acquisition bounty initiative to attract new hosts, or leveraging advanced technologies like LLMs and NLP to generate actionable location insights that help guests better understand the unique attributes of potential travel destinations.
You’ll have opportunities to build data products from the ground up and evaluate the impact of new features using both experimental and observational methods. Your most significant contributions will include partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders to develop and optimize product features, ensuring the team stays data-driven by surfacing meaningful insights that inform decisions and strategy, and rigorously quantifying the effects of our latest innovations through a variety of measurement approaches.
A Typical Day:
- Building strong relationships with cross-functional partners across Product, Design, Engineering, and Analytics to drive collaboration and innovation.
- Contributing directly to launching new data-driven products to help the Airbnb guest and host community.
- Writing software in Python, SQL, or R to model, simulate, and measure the impact of new product features for both guests and hosts.
- Analyzing structured or unstructured data to uncover meaningful insights and craft actionable proposals.
- Presenting findings and recommendations to leaders and stakeholders in a clear, compelling manner that drives informed data-driven decision making.
Your Expertise:
- 5+ years of experience with BS/masters degree, 2+ years of experience with PhD.
- Experience with experimentation and causal observational analysis.
- Experience partnering closely with product, engineering, and design to enable data-driven product development.
- Experience prototyping, building, and scaling derived data assets.
- Strong coding skills in SQL and either Python or R.
- Strong oral and written communication skills - an ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- Great to have prior experience working with geospatial data, LLMs, or NLP approaches.
- Work authorization (if applicable)
- Travel requirements (if applicable)
Your Location:
This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
How We'll Take Care of You:
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
