Lead, Advanced Analytics, Community Support

Airbnb; United States; On-site; USD 164,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking an Advanced Analytics Lead to empower our Community Support (CS) analytics with scalable data tools and insightful guidance. You will partner with product, operations, and engineering to improve guest, host, and agent experiences.

You will build analytical frameworks, run causal inference studies, and drive data-informed roadmaps through dashboards and self-serve platforms. This role demands 8+ years of analytics and strong SQL/Python skills.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience in business analytics and a quantitative degree (Masters or PhD a plus).
• Experience supporting customer service or operations teams is a plus.
• Expert skills in SQL and Python/R; experience with causal inference, experimentation and ML in multi-sided platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead data-driven roadmaps for CS working groups with actionable, data-backed solutions.
• Build the business insights & reporting platform to measure efficacy and improve CS processes.
• Model data across entities and use tools/frameworks to optimize community and agent experiences.
• Define and evaluate key metrics in unstructured problem spaces and explain what moves them.
• Influence data-driven decisions across business verticals via reviews, scorecards, and OKRs.
• Guide experimentation and measurement strategies, including power analyses and causal inference.

Skills

SQL

Python

Causal inference

Airflow

Data storytelling

Stakeholder influence

Education

Masters/PhD in quantitative field

Tools

Airflow

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:

We are looking for an Advanced Analytics Lead to help Airbnb enable travel for our millions of guests and hosts on our platform. This role will sit under the Advanced Analytics family and support Product and Business leaders within our CS organization.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Data thought partner to product and business leaders across teams through providing insights, recommendations, and enabling data informed decisions
• Drive day to day analytics and create scalable data tools
• Identify pain points in customer support operations and work with product leadership to improve experiences for our guest, host and agent community

In addition, you will leverage Airbnb’s rich and unique data, state-of-art machine learning infrastructure, and other central data science tools to build and grow the measurement capacity within the organization. You will also be deeply involved in the technical details of the various systems we build, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with a strong team of engineers, product managers, designers and operations agents to achieve shared, cross-functional goals to help keep Airbnb’s community safe and trusted.

• You are passionate about solving complex problems within the Community support domain with data & insights; adding a new perspective to existing solutions and making business decisions based on careful and thoughtful analysis
• You are highly proficient in building and analyzing analytical frameworks, statistical models and experimentation methods to establish and communicate causal relationships
• You are a storyteller who uses complex data and insights to frame narratives to bring others along the journey

A Typical Day:

• Lead and drive data-driven roadmaps for the CS working groups. Recommend actionable solutions backed by data and metrics to product problems, with the ability to effectively communicate with Product, Operations & Engineering managers of varying technical levels
• Build the business insights & reporting platform to detect and support the driving efficacy and efficiency of behaviors and product interfaces and processes across CS platform and contact center network
• Perform data modeling of the various entities and using tools & frameworks for optimizing community and agent experiences
• Defining and evaluating key metrics in an unstructured problem space including measurement of new product launches. Communicating a robust understanding of what moves these metrics and why
• Influence data-driven decisions across business verticals in day-to-day via business reviews, scorecards, self-serve portal, OKRs and planning among others
• Influence experimentation & measurement strategies; conduct power analyses, define exit criteria, and use statistical models to improve inference. Your expertise in causal inference as well as passion for the subject matter will help you address this unstructured space

Your Expertise:

• A minimum of 8+ years of industry experience in business analytics and a degree (Masters or PhD is a plus) in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Operations Research).
• Have experience supporting customer service support and/or have worked closely with operations teams
• Expert skills in SQL and expert in at least one programming language for data analysis (Python or R). Experience with non-experimental causal inference methods, experimentation and machine learning techniques, ideally in a multi-sided platform setting
• Working knowledge of schema design and high-dimensional data modeling (ETL framework like Airflow)
• Ability to work under conditions of ambiguity in a fast-growth, sometimes uncertain and complex environment - comfortable acting with minimal planning, direction, and supervision. You can identify issues both within and outside of your immediate scope, and propose solutions.
• Ability to pushback, influence and draw attention to what moves the needle the most based on data and insights.

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 [e-mail]. 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.

Pay Range

$164,000—$191,000 USD