Senior Staff Data Scientist, Guest & Host Marketplace AI

The role

You will lead innovation efforts to build methodologies that identify and evaluate guest preferences throughout the online discovery funnel. You will use AI and causal inference to understand user behavior and build data products for a personalized app experience.

What you will do

• Develop understanding of how guests navigate and re-engage with the app via analysis and research.
• Drive technical frameworks and science leadership with product and engineering to explore paradigms for detecting preferences.
• Write code for prototypes to detect and quantify guest preferences via data frameworks and AI toolkits.
• Assess assumptions and efficacy of guest preferences via measurement and validating hypotheses.
• Setup experiments and data feedback loops.
• Present findings and recommendations to leadership audiences to inform strategy.

Required qualifications

• Causal inference expertise with marketplace experience
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Econometrics or related field
• 9+ years of industry experience with a PhD (or 12+ years with a Masters)
• Strong in communication with XFN partners in product, engineering, and design
• Expert in at least one programming language for data analysis (Python or R)
• Familiarity in SQL
• Comfort with developing proof-of-concept prototypes
• Proven ability to succeed in both collaborative and independent work environments
• Demonstrated willingness and track record of engagement with the technical community

Nice to have

• Domain experience in search, UX discovery, personalized evidence systems

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits

About the company

Airbnb was born in 2007 and has grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.