Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics, Acquisition

airbnb, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Equity

Employee Travel Credits

Disability accommodations

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics with Acquisition focus to partner with senior leaders across Homes and Marketing to drive host supply growth and profitability.

You will own funnel performance translation, vendor economics, and marketing efficiency, leading recommendations rather than just analysis, with a strong emphasis on executive communication and cross-functional impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in an analytical role with ownership of recommendations.
• Strong financial modeling and large dataset interrogation ability with SQL.
• Experience translating data into decisions for senior leaders.
• Excellent executive communication and ability to defend assumptions.
• High ownership and judgment in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead Generation Performance Management: forecast, goal setting, and exec reporting for lead generation.
• Full-Funnel Analytics: analyze conversion and vendor productivity to identify improvement areas.
• Sales Operations Design: optimize operations across in-house and vendor channels.
• Marketing Investment Allocation: assess efficiency and reallocate where needed.
• Executive Communication: synthesize analysis into clear recommendations for leadership.

Skills

SQL

Financial modeling

10+ years experience

Executive communication

Ownership mindset

Lead generation

Marketing mix analysis

Job description

Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics, Acquisition

United States

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 sit at the intersection of finance, strategy, and the business, partnering directly with leaders to decide where Airbnb invests, how we grow, and what we do next. We expect every member of the team to bring a CFO mindset to budget management, producing actionable insights, owning our performance story, and supporting day‑to‑day execution.

• A seat at the table. We're advisors, not just analysts. Our work shapes real decisions, not just decks.
• A steep learning curve. Small, lean teams and a focus on internal mobility means broad exposure across product and business areas.

If you like ambiguity, moving fast, and building the answer instead of just reporting it, you'll fit right in.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Principal in Strategic Finance & Analytics supporting Acquisition, you will partner with senior leaders across Homes and Marketing to grow high-quality host supply. You will become the subject matter expert on how host leads are sourced, priced, and converted, with a clear point of view on which channels and tactics warrant further investment.

The role demands a strong commercial mindset: translating funnel performance, vendor economics, and marketing efficiency into business implications and recommendations senior leadership can act on. You will own the recommendation, not just the analysis.

A Typical Day:

• Lead Generation Performance Management: Own forecasting, goal setting, and executive reporting for lead generation, building scalable frameworks that connect lead volume and quality to activation and revenue.
• Full-Funnel Analytics: Analyze stage‑by‑stage conversion and vendor productivity to identify where leads are lost, why, and what it is worth to fix.
• Sales Operations Design: Optimize sales operations across in‑house and vendor channels, spanning capacity planning, routing and prioritization logic, incentive structures, and cost‑per‑activation economics.
• Marketing Investment Allocation: Assess brand and search marketing efficiency relative to priority supply markets, and recommend reallocation where returns diverge from where supply is most needed.
• Executive Communication: Synthesize complex analysis into clear recommendations, and influence cross‑functional stakeholders toward alignment on high‑impact investment decisions.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years in an analytical role such as strategic finance, strategy or management consulting, investment banking, financial planning and analysis, business operations, or private equity, with ownership of recommendations rather than analysis alone.
• Strong financial modeling skills and the ability to independently extract and interrogate large datasets, with working SQL proficiency.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, with a track record of translating ambiguous data into decisions senior leaders act on.
• Excellent executive communication: leads with the recommendation, calibrates to the audience, and defends assumptions under live scrutiny.
• High ownership and sound judgment in a fast‑paced, ambiguous environment, with rigorous attention to detail.
• Preferred: experience in lead generation, supply or customer acquisition, marketing mix and channel efficiency analysis, or evaluating the effectiveness of in‑house and outsourced sales channels.

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

$168,000 — $206,000 USD

Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.