Senior Data Scientist - Analytics, Payments

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.

Airbnb is a mission-driven company that connects travelers and hosts from over 81,000 cities around the globe. To power that community, Airbnb is building a world-class payments platform that currently supports over 190 countries, 70+ currencies, connects dozens of payment providers, and transmits billions of dollars per year. 

Our goal? To empower people and communities to participate in our global marketplace and innovate on a future where payments can be completely transparent and simple, yet trustworthy and comfortable. As our platform grows, the payments team will be building a scalable foundation to support our global business, helping the company grow by bringing new markets and demographics to the platform, and enabling new business products to improve our user’s product experience. Our data science team is working to provide the analytical insights and intelligent data products that will enable us to scale our platform and empower our community throughout the world.

We are looking for a passionate Data Scientist to identify and execute scalable ways to improve our platform’s payment experience and to bring a scientific approach to decision making. As a Data Scientist focused on analytics, you’ll have the opportunity to influence the business by creatively exploring the data to inform what success looks like and how we get there.

Examples of responsibilities we currently need help with:

• Define key metrics and their relationships to measure business success.
• Conceptualize, create, and maintain dashboards to surface operational efficiencies and drive decisioning quality.
• Develop methodologies to explore and exploit growth opportunities and build data products to optimize operational strategies in the payments sphere.
• Work with cross-functional partners to design and execute controlled experiment methods to quantify the effects of product changes.
• Communicate analyses and recommendations to cross functional stakeholders for decision making

Qualifications we value:

An ideal candidate should possess a good balance of technical skills, business acumen, and communication skills. A driven individual who’s keen to solve hard business problems is desired.

Must Have:

• A passion for Airbnb’s mission of helping people Belong Anywhere
• 5+ years of professional experience in a highly analytical role (risk analytics, business or marketing analysis, data analysis and visualization, etc.)
• Advanced in SQL and proficient with a programming language, with Python or R a plus
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to cross functional partners of varying technical levels
• Ability to define relevant metrics that can guide and influence stakeholders to the appropriate and accurate insights
• Experience or willingness to learn tools to create data pipelines using Airflow
• Building clear and easy to understand dashboards (Tableau) and presentations