
Airbnb · 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 b...
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.
MarTech Data Science Measurement empowers Airbnb to optimize marketing ROI through data-informed decision-making. We lead the way
in defining and advancing best practices for measuring and optimizing marketing impact. We collaborate with Marketing, Finance,
Engineering, and Product to provide actionable recommendations and tools based on effective, timely, and granular measurements.
We are seeking experienced Data Scientists to serve as technical anchors across our team’s two pillars. The ideal candidate
combines depth in causal inference, experimentation, and customer relationship modeling with the ability to drive rigor in
solutions and data-informed decision making across the team and our cross-functional partners.
experience.
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.
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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.
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.
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
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: MarTech Data Science Measurement empowers Airbnb to optimize marketing ROI by generating data-driven recommendations. We lead the way in defining and advancing best practices for measuring and optimizing marketing impact. We collaborate with Marketing, Finance, and Engineering to provide actionable recommendations and tools based on effective, timely, and granular measurements. Our team’s tenets are: * Actionable: Deliver insights that drive confident business decisions. * Impactful: Prioritize projects based on their expected value to Airbnb. * Balanced: Adapt methods to business questions and data realities, acknowledging limitations. * Rigorous: Maintain methodological integrity and quantify the sensitivity of findings. * Innovative: Invest in advancing measurement science and developing new methods. * Influential: Share learnings across Airbnb and the broader data science community. The Difference You Will Make: We are seeking an experienced (Contract) Sr. Data Scientist for a 24 month contract with deep expertise in marketing measurement, with a particular focus on Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and geo-based causal inference. The ideal candidate brings strong statistical intuition and hands-on modeling experience to quantify the incremental impact of Airbnb's marketing investments across channels and geographies. They are fluent in Python, comfortable working with Bayesian frameworks, and can translate complex measurement findings into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders. A Typical Day: * Marketing Mix Modeling: Design, build, and maintain MMM models that estimate incremental channel contributions, including prior elicitation, adstock/saturation modeling, validation, and sensitivity analysis. * Geo-Based Measurement: Develop and analyze geo-experiments (synthetic control, difference-in-differences) to measure marketing incrementality and validate MMM outputs. * Measurement Infrastructure: Build and maintain data pipelines and automated measurement systems ensuring reproducibility and scale. * AI-Accelerated Prototyping: Use AI agent workflows to rapidly develop v0 prototypes and spec-driven model implementations — compressing weeks of iteration into days. * Productionalization: Refine research prototypes into production-grade systems with proper unit testing, data validation, and code review standards. * Insight Communication: Translate complex measurement findings into clear narratives and confident budget recommendations for Marketing and Finance stakeholders. Your Expertise: * 5+ years of industry experience in a quantitative analysis role with a Master’s degree in a quantitative field (computer science, statistics etc.), or 2+ years of experience with a Ph.D. * Deep, hands-on experience building and validating Marketing Mix Models in a production setting. * Strong working knowledge of causal inference methods, including geo-experimentation and observational approaches. * Proficiency in Python and R for statistical modeling, and SQL for data manipulation. * Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to stakeholders at varying technical levels. * Proven track record of solving business problems through data science methods. Preferred Expertise: * Passion for marketing and consumer science, with a desire to stay informed about the latest advances in the field. * Familiarity with Bayesian modeling and its applications in marketing. * Working knowledge of AI coding agents for accelerating prototyping, spec-driven development, and multi-agent workflows. * Experience in developing end-to-end models for data-driven decision-making. 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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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 hourly rate is dependent upon many factors, such as: education, experience, and skills. The hourly rate 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 $140—$150 USD
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: Airbnb's Payments organization is central to the trust that makes every transaction possible and the Payments Risk and Compliance domain sits at the heart of protecting that trust for guests, hosts, and the platform. The Platform Team plays the role of conductor, enhancing our engineers, designers, and data scientists to build great product experiences. Our Payments Risk Platform Managers (PM) own and lead outcomes related to foundation, growth, and empowerment. This means our PMs set the vision and strategy, the roadmap, and execute on the plans that are developed. The Difference You Will Make: This role sits within Airbnb's Payments Risk and Compliance domain, owning the post-transaction product strategy across the full dispute lifecycle from chargeback processing and representments through pre-arbitration, proactive dispute prevention, and on-platform resolution experiences. You will drive Airbnb's evolution from a chargeback representment into a holistic dispute resolution capability, building the systems, decisioning logic, and guest-facing interventions that reduce net losses while protecting community and marketplace trust. Success in this role means materially reducing Airbnb's losses while balancing impact to community and attrition, expanding pre-arbitration coverage and standing up a proactive dispute deflection program all while laying the architectural foundation for disputes handling across new payment methods, product verticals, and geographies as Airbnb scales. A Typical Day: As PM Payments Risk you will be responsible for * Own and evolve the product roadmap for dispute lifecycle management spanning chargeback ingestion, representment decisioning, and pre-arbitration * Partner with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics and operations to sharpen dispute decisioning models, build product improvements and optimizations by processor, reason code, and product vertical, and translate those insights into concrete roadmap bets that improve win rate and reduce losses. * Drive the design and rollout of proactive dispute prevention capabilities including on-trip signal detection and early guest outreach working cross-functionally with Customer Support, Trust, and Operations to resolve guest issues before they escalate to a chargeback. * Build scalable disputes infrastructure for new payment methods and product verticals and defining evidence frameworks as Airbnb scales. * Collaborate with the Enforcements and Transaction Risk team to design and implement first party misuse detection and enforcement programs that deter repeat dispute abuse, balancing recovery goals with guest experience and marketplace integrity. Your Expertise: * 10+ years building payments, Payments Risk or risk related products in a product management role within global technology or financial services companies. * Prior experience working with Payments Risk including Dispute lifecycle management. (Fintech experience strongly preferred) * A subject matter expert on payments risk with proven track record of launching and scaling detection, fraud prevention and dispute resolution products that balance customer experience * Experience leading complex projects, leveraging ML , operations, and signals from external vendors * Technical chops with experience as an engineer, data scientist, analyst, or operations * Experience integrating Gen AI as solution and delivering business value * Thrives in a startup environment: loves dealing with fast pace, changing needs, and limited resources. 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 Payments, Inc. (a subsidiary of Airbnb, Inc.) is a registered entity. Approved remote states include: Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is excluded. 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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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 $200,000—$240,000 USD
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: At Airbnb, our top priority is to create safe and trusted experiences for our Hosts and guests, and ensure everyone in our global community can belong on Airbnb. The Anti-Discrimination & Equity team is a core part of that mission–focused on identifying and mitigating potential experience gaps and advancing best practices in inclusive design across Product, Design, Machine Learning, and AI. As a Platform Product Manager for Anti-Discrimination & Equity, you will shape the systems and capabilities that enable success for all Airbnb users. You will design scalable, intelligent solutions that balance operational efficiency with equitable user experience. In this role, you’ll partner closely with engineering, data science, and operations teams to deliver platform products, including cutting-edge AI/ML-powered solutions, innovative data tools, automated governance and risk assessment technologies, and adaptive solutions that evolve with new risks and advance new opportunities . Your work will directly strengthen the trust and integrity that make Airbnb a place where anyone can belong. The Difference You Will Make: As a Platform Product Manager on the Defense Platform, you will define the vision, strategy, and execution for products that power safety and integrity across Airbnb. You will partner with engineers, data scientists, designers, and operations experts to build intelligent, scalable platform solutions that identify emerging risks, prevent bad actors, and reduce friction for trusted users. Your work will ensure our defenses are adaptive, automated, and seamlessly integrated across the Airbnb ecosystem. A Typical Day: * Define and deliver a compelling product vision and roadmap for Anti-Discrimination and Equity products. * Lead a cross-functional group of engineers, data scientists, designers, operations experts, policy leaders, and product partners to drive alignment, execution, and measurable impact. * Manage the product backlog and prioritization process, balancing business value, risk reduction, and user experience. * Establish clear goals, metrics, and success criteria in partnership with Anti-Discrimination and Equity and cross-functional leadership. * Communicate strategy, progress, and insights effectively to stakeholders across all levels, including senior leadership. * Leverage data-driven experimentation and measurement frameworks to continuously improve scaled platform products and decision systems. * Collaborate closely with teams across Tech, Global Operations, Policy, Product, Legal, Reputation, and Shared Services to ensure alignment, manage dependencies, and streamline execution. Your Expertise: * 8+ years of product management experience, ideally in platform, anti-discrimination & equity, trust & safety, or risk domains. * Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence across diverse technical and non-technical audiences. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills with a strong bias toward data-informed decision-making. * Experience driving hypothesis-based product development and iterative learning. * Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment. * Proven success influencing without authority and driving alignment across global, cross-functional teams. * Passion for and experience in developing technologies and products that are inclusive in nature * Background or experience working in anti-discrimination, equity, or inclusion is a plus 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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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 $179,000—$207,000 USD