Staff Data Scientist

We are looking for talented Data Scientists to join our supply growth and special projects team. This team is pivotal to the Airbnb marketplace, ensuring we continue to onboard high quality supply to meet ongoing travel demands. The projects will range from optimizing host onboarding tools, to discovering and defining new growth levers, to creating frameworks to understand our supply at a deeper level.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be hands-on and responsible for building the data products, inference frameworks, and intelligence to power and inform supply growth levers. You will work centrally, amongst other data scientists, while partnering cross functionally with design, product, and engineering to deliver initiatives such as:

9+ years of relevant industry experience, ideally with a Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative field
Strong fluency in Python or R for hands-on IC work and SQL for advanced data analysis at scale
Experience with inference and machine learning techniques
Experience with the end-to-end lifecycle of building statistical and ML solutions from ideation phase, to prototyping, to testing / evaluation, to deployment in production
Proven ability to succeed in collaborative environments with cross-functional stakeholders and also in independent work environments
Proven ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels