Senior Data Scientist, Guest & Host

Airbnb

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: Guest Experience is responsible for Search and Discovery, Merchandising, and end-to-end online software experience worldwide from top-of-funnel discovery through post-booking engagement. We are looking for a talented Data Scientist to join the Guest Data Science team. This tech lead will be at the core of using AI and casual inference to understand user behavior in our app, detect underlying intent, and to build data products needed to provide a compelling and personalized experience of our app. We build products that help guests find the inventory most relevant to them in our marketplace. The Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Staff Data Scientist, you will lead innovation efforts to build methodologies to identify and evaluate the preferences important to every guest, at every step of their online discovery funnel. You will be instrumental in shaping our data strategy to drive guest conversion and regular engagement with the Airbnb platform across our Homes, Experiences and Services business verticals.  This role emphasizes technical excellence and driving business impact with cutting-edge science. Your role will involve close collaboration with Product to identify in-product optimizations and shape UX design architecture to path how guests navigate from surface-to-surface in our app. The ideal candidate will demonstrate to be a domain expert with granular user behavior and sequence datasets in a marketplace setting. You will hold a high bar for our customer experience and balance a passion for AI with a strong desire to accurately understand user behavior and business success. Your efforts towards personalized content discovery will help make Airbnb feel tailored for you, maintaining a dialogue with our guests to deeply understand their preferences and reflect that understanding back to them, enabling every guest to easily discover the travel they will love.   A Typical Day: * Learn: Develop deep understanding of how guests navigate and re-engage with our app via analysis, research, and by leveraging granular user action and sequence datasets. * Partner: With product and engineering, drive technical frameworks and science leadership to explore innovative paradigms for detecting revealed preferences and quantifying online frictions. * Build: Write code for prototypes to detect and quantify taxonomy of guest preferences via iterative development of data frameworks, models and artefacts derived from AI toolkits * Evaluate: Assess assumptions and efficacy of derived guest preferences via measurement and validating hypotheses linked to online guest action and engagement. Setup experiments and data feedback loops to own a high bar over continuous impact. * Influence: Regularly present findings and recommendations to leadership audiences to inform strategy and cross-functional deliverables. * If you’re passionate about going deep into personalized user experiences, we want to hear from you! Your Expertise: * Causal inference expertise with marketplace experience * Preferred domain experience in search, UX discovery, personalized evidence systems * 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 to enable data-driven product development with a focus on the user experience. * Expert in at least one programming language for data analysis (Python or R) with familiarity in SQL. Comfort with developing proof-of-concept prototypes. Passionate about AI and possessing a learner’s mindset towards LLMs and dynamic systems. * Proven ability to succeed in both collaborative and independent work environments * Demonstrated willingness and track record of engagement with the technical community   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. 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 $224,000—$280,000 USD

AB InBev

About us AB InBev is the leading global brewer and one of the world’s top 5 consumer product companies. With over 500 beer brands, we’re number one or two in many of the world’s top beer markets, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. About AB InBev Growth Group Created in 2022, the Growth Group unifies our business-to-business (B2B), direct-to-consumer (DTC), Sales & Distribution, and Marketing teams. By bringing together global tech and commercial functions, the Growth Group allows us to fully leverage data and drive digital transformation and organic growth for AB InBev around the world. In addition to supporting well known global beer brands like Corona, Budweiser and Michelob Ultra, the Growth Group is home to a robust suite of digital products including our B2B digital commerce platform BEES, on-demand delivery services Ze Delivery and TaDa Delivery, and table top beer keg PerfectDraft. We are an exceptional team, focused on understanding and supporting consumer and customer needs, harnessing new technology, and scaling growth opportunities.   About BEES BEES, our ambition is – and always will be – to put customers at the heart of everything we do. Making their lives easier and their businesses more profitable. Through our B2B e-commerce and SaaS platform, we bring the power of digital to small and medium-sized retailers and the companies that service them, unlocking new growth opportunities for all. With offices in São Paulo and Campinas, we encourage our team to participate in major events and significant meetings throughout the year. The Team: BEES is the team driving AI strategy at BEES by building end-to-end products to serve our teams, customers, and partners across the globe. The organization is a cross-functional blend of AI/ML teams from Applied Research and Machine Learning Engineering to Machine Learning Platform Product Management. Together, the team is responsible for building the tools and products needed to deliver world-class AI/ML capabilities.  As a member of the BEES Fintech Data Science team, you will develop data-driven solutions for credit risk, underwriting, portfolio optimization, pricing, and decisioning systems that operate at scale and directly impact real-time credit decisions. What you'll do: * Be part of a high-impact fintech data science team building ABIs credit models, credit decisioning systems, and ML-powered infrastructure that drive billions of dollars in credit transactions annually for millions of users worldwide. * Design, develop, and deploy statistical and machine learning models across the full lifecycle — from research and experimentation to production — with a focus on credit risk, underwriting, portfolio optimization, and experimentation. * Write a substantial amount of production-grade code while conducting deep analytical and statistical research, translating theory into practical improvements in live credit systems. * Lead and contribute to experimentation and model evaluation (offline analysis, simulations, and online tests), ensuring models are robust, explainable, and aligned with regulatory, risk, and business constraints. * Work with industry-leading technologies and modern ML platforms, building scalable modeling and data workflows that operate reliably at global scale. * Collaborate closely with exceptional engineers, product managers, analysts, and business stakeholders. * Continuously explore and adopt state-of-the-art methods in statistics, machine learning, and optimization, raising the technical bar and shaping best practices across the fintech data science organization. What you'll need: * Strong foundation in mathematics and statistics. * Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field; Master’s preferred; PhD a plus. * Experience or strong familiarity with experimentation frameworks, model validation, and rigorous evaluation, ideally in high-stakes decision systems. * Proven ability to apply machine learning and statistical models in production, balancing accuracy, stability, explainability, and real-world constraints. * Proficiency in Python for analysis, modeling, and production workflows; experience with distributed data processing (e.g., Spark / PySpark) is a plus. * Experience with modern ML development practices, including version control, CI/CD, and reproducible research and modeling workflows. * Strong proficiency using AI coding agents and developer tools in a controlled, thoughtful, and production-oriented way to accelerate development without compromising quality. * Creative, curious, and independent thinker who challenges assumptions, proposes novel approaches, and reasons deeply about complex systems. * Excellent communication skills, able to clearly explain complex models and results to both technical and non-technical audiences. What We Offer: * Performance based bonus* * Attendance Bonus*  * Private pension plan * Meal Allowance * Casual office and dress code * Days off* * Health, dental, and life insurance * Medicines discounts * WellHub partnership * Childcare subsidies * Discounts on Ambev products* * Clube Ben partnership * Scholarship* * School materials assurance * Language and training platforms * Transport allowance *Rules applied Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action: AB InBev Growth Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon of race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. The following fields are optional, but anticipate the information for your registration*. Remember: your data will never be used as elimination criteria in selection processes. With them, AB InBev Growth Group is able to analyze diversity and reduce biases in selection processes. We want to contribute to changing this reality by being an inclusive company.  For more information: www.abinbev.com

AB InBev

About us AB InBev is the leading global brewer and one of the world’s top 5 consumer product companies. With over 500 beer brands, we’re number one or two in many of the world’s top beer markets, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. About AB InBev Growth Group Created in 2022, the Growth Group unifies our business-to-business (B2B), direct-to-consumer (DTC), Sales & Distribution, and Marketing teams. By bringing together global tech and commercial functions, the Growth Group allows us to fully leverage data and drive digital transformation and organic growth for AB InBev around the world. In addition to supporting well known global beer brands like Corona, Budweiser and Michelob Ultra, the Growth Group is home to a robust suite of digital products including our B2B digital commerce platform BEES, on-demand delivery services Ze Delivery and TaDa Delivery, and table top beer keg PerfectDraft. We are an exceptional team, focused on understanding and supporting consumer and customer needs, harnessing new technology, and scaling growth opportunities. About BEES At BEES, our ambition is – and always will be – to put customers at the heart of everything we do, making their lives easier and their businesses more profitable. Through our B2B e-commerce and SaaS platform, we bring the power of digital to small and medium-sized retailers, unlocking new growth opportunities for all. The BEES AI organization drives data science and machine learning strategy across logistics, operations, and customer-facing products. We build end-to-end intelligent systems that optimize how goods move through our network, improving reliability, efficiency, and the overall customer experience at global scale. As a member of the BEES Logistics Data Science team, you will develop data-driven solutions that power delivery planning, operational efficiency, and customer promise accuracy across multiple markets. What you'll do:  * Be part of a high-impact data science team building intelligent logistics systems that optimize delivery operations at a global scale. * Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models and optimization solutions across the full lifecycle — from research and experimentation to production — focusing on planning, forecasting, and operational decision-making. * Apply advanced techniques such as statistical modeling, optimization, geospatial analytics, and forecasting to improve efficiency, reliability, and cost of delivery operations. * Translate complex real-world logistics constraints into scalable mathematical models and data-driven systems. * Contribute to experimentation and performance evaluation through offline analysis and online testing, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with operational goals. * Write production-grade code and build reusable data and modeling pipelines that operate reliably at scale. * Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, operations teams, and business stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions. * Drive continuous improvement by exploring new methodologies in machine learning, optimization, and applied statistics, raising the technical bar across the organization. What you'll need: * Strong foundation in mathematics, statistics, and problem solving. * Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field; Master’s preferred; PhD is a plus. * Proven experience applying machine learning, optimization, or advanced analytics to real-world problems in production environments. * Experience with complex systems involving uncertainty, constraints, and large-scale data. * Proficiency in Python for data analysis, modeling, and production workflows; experience with distributed processing (e.g., Spark / PySpark) is a plus. * Familiarity with at least one of the following domains: optimization, forecasting, geospatial analytics, or large-scale operational systems. * Experience with experimentation frameworks, model validation, and performance monitoring. * Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, including version control, CI/CD, and reproducible workflows. * Ability to work with ambiguity, break down complex problems, and deliver practical, high-impact solutions. * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. What We Offer: * Performance based bonus* * Attendance Bonus*  * Private pension plan * Meal Allowance * Casual office and dress code * Days off* * Health, dental, and life insurance * Medicines discounts * WellHub partnership * Childcare subsidies * Discounts on Ambev products* * Clube Ben partnership * Scholarship* * School materials assurance * Language and training platforms * Transport allowance *Rules applied Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action: AB InBev Growth Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon of race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. The following fields are optional, but anticipate the information for your registration*. Remember: your data will never be used as elimination criteria in selection processes. With them, AB InBev Growth Group is able to analyze diversity and reduce biases in selection processes. We want to contribute to changing this reality by being an inclusive company.  For more information: www.abinbev.com