Staff, Advanced Analytics, Incentives

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · United States · Analytics

This role focuses on advanced data analysis, metric definition, experimentation, and synthesis to drive strategic decisions related to incentives for supply growth in a marketplace setting. The individual will analyze data to understand the impact of incentives on key metrics, define new metrics, build dashboards, and conduct A/B tests. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential.

What you'd actually do

  1. Conduct advanced data analysis to extract actionable insights that inform strategic decisions.
  2. Collaborate closely with business teams, providing data-driven insights to support strategic decisions.
  3. Analyze broad data to understand the impact of incentives on bookings, attach rate, revenue, profitability, occupancy, rebooking rate, churn, and other key metrics.
  4. Define new metrics and identify leading indicators of key business outcomes.
  5. Build dashboards to track key performance metrics across markets and customer segments to establish benchmarks.
  6. Conduct A/B tests to improve business performance and maximize incrementality.
  7. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Strategic Finance, Data and Analytical Engineering, and Data Science, to align strategies and leverage synergies.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of industry experience
  • degree (Masters or PhD is a plus) in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Operations Research)
  • Prior experience in advanced analytics or business data science within a marketplace or business strategy setting
  • Strong expertise in at least one programming language (Python or R) and SQL
  • Deep understanding of econometric and statistical analysis, and experience in applying these skills to derive insights from broad data sets
  • Exceptional business acumen, strategic thinking skills, and the ability to make informed judgments
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of engaging with a variety of stakeholders and conveying complex concepts in an accessible manner
  • Proven stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence across functions
  • An agile, growth-minded approach, demonstrated through a history of driving projects from ideation to impact

Nice to have

  • AI-assisted analytics (Claude, ChatGPT, etc)

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of industry experience
  • Masters or PhD is a plus
  • quantitative field
  • advanced analytics or business data science
  • marketplace or business strategy setting
  • AI-assisted analytics