The Community You Will Join:

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.

The Difference You Will Make:

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.

• 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.

A Typical Day:

• Causal Inference: Apply and develop causal inference methods to estimate the effectiveness of Airbnb’s marketing initiatives.
• Data Analysis: Conduct data pulls, analyze trends, and create new features to support measurement efforts.
• Experimentation: Design and analyze experiments to evaluate the impact of marketing campaigns.
• Collaboration: Work effectively with cross-functional teams, providing insights that optimize marketing strategies.
• Thought Leadership: Lead the creation of internal white papers and contribute to Airbnb tech blog posts.

Your Expertise:

• PhD in Economics, Statistics, Marketing, or a related field, or a Masters Degree in a similar field with 2+ years of experience.
• Deep knowledge of causal inference methodologies and experimentation techniques.
• Proficiency in statistical programming (Python or R), database usage (SQL), and agentic coding.
• 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:

• PhD in Economics, Statistics, Marketing, or a related field.
• Passion for marketing and consumer science, with a desire to stay informed about the latest academic research.
• Familiarity with Bayesian modeling and its applications in marketing.
• Experience with causal ML modeling.
• 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.

The Community You Will Join:

You will join the Guest and Host Data Science organization, which powers products and data-driven decisions over Airbnb’s marketplace of Guest and Hosts. You will join a collaborative team of data scientists, analysts, engineers, product managers and designers who build, launch and iterate on our product roadmap to drive growth and deeper sophistication through experimentation, modeling, foundational tools and insights. Our work is core to ensuring that Airbnb’s strategy roadmap stays highly relevant for our users while supporting the long-term health of our marketplace. We work directly with decision makers in engineering and product to develop data-driven frameworks, technical solutions, evaluate product changes and guide the company through rigorous measurement and modeling.

The Difference You Will Make:

Under this general application, you will be considered for applications over several tracks.

Growth Product Data Science

• Partner directly on growth initiatives to build, ship, measure incrementality of bookings/attach rate/revenue, and optimize 0-to-1 customer-facing features
• Thought partnership with Product to define strategy, sequence iteration, scale impact via science frameworks and as the go-to tech lead around data, experimentation, and domain understanding
• Build observational causal inference models to deeply understand guest intent, identify underlying mechanisms, and build data products to measure impact, and inform feature objectives and tradeoffs 
• Champion AI-enabled Product Understanding, to scale data-driven frameworks, robust measurement, and compelling storytelling of data learnings to guide recommendations and roadmaps with senior leaders

Pricing Data Science

• Develop a pricing guidance system for hosts as well as experimental and observational methods to measure the impact of pricing feature launches.
• Collaborate with product and cross-functional teams to pioneer pricing strategies and translate advanced modeling into actionable recommendations
• Develop foundational models and experimental approaches that balance supply and demand in the marketplace, leveraging empirical methods to assess and iterate on pricing feature impact
• Craft compelling data narratives to surface actionable insights, empower data-driven decision making and influence the future direction of Airbnb’s pricing ecosystem

Marketplace Optimization and Ranking

• Develop models and analytic frameworks that improve listing ranking and recommendation. This includes incorporating marketplace dynamics such as listing availability, supply quality, and long-term ecosystem health into ranking decisions.
• Partner closely with Machine Learning Engineers and Product to launch high-impact search improvements. Design experiments and evaluation frameworks to understand the impact of search and AI-driven product improvements.
• Build scalable data products and modeling pipelines that power ranking features, query understanding, and personalization. Your work will help enable the next generation of AI-powered search experiences at Airbnb
• Connect marketplace thinking, modeling, and experimentation across teams and set the technical direction for modeling and experimentation in search, ranking and personalization.

The ideal candidate will be curious, optimistic, and relentless at leading innovation in using AI tools to scale experimentation and data-driven decisions, development of domain-relevant input metrics, and continuous understanding of tradeoffs and end-to-end guest product journeys. You will hold a high bar for customer experience and a strong desire to accurately understand user behavior and drive business growth over both Homes and non-Homes verticals. 

Your expertise:

• Causal inference expertise. Experience with machine learning techniques in a marketplace product setting
• 9+ years of relevant industry experience and a Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative field
• Strong coding skills in SQL and either Python or R.
• Comfort with building proof-of-concept prototypes. Passionate about AI and possessing a learner’s attitude.
• Proven ability to be driven and succeed in collaborative environments with cross-functional stakeholders and also in independent work settings. Ability to autonomously set a roadmap for business impact.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels

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.

The Community You Will Join:

“Our real innovation is not allowing people to book a home; it’s designing a framework to allow millions of people to trust one another. Trust is the real energy source that drives Airbnb…” 

- Brian Chesky, Airbnb Co-Founder & CEO (2019)

Trust is the foundation of a vibrant Airbnb community. The Content Integrity Data Science team helps build and protect that trust by ensuring that the content on Airbnb, including listings, profiles, messages and other user-generated experiences, is accurate, authentic and aligned with our policies and community standards.

We partner closely with product, engineering, policy and operations teams to develop advanced AI-driven content understanding systems, scale effective human-in-the-loop workflows and proactively defend against emerging content risks, so guests and hosts can interact with confidence.

The Difference You Will Make: 

This role is unique in that it directly improves the safety, trust, and quality of real-world user experiences by advancing Airbnb’s ability to understand, interpret and act on content at scale. You will help shape how the platform reasons about listings, profiles, messages and other user-generated content by building the next generation of Trust Content Understanding Models.

The ideal candidate is a motivated and talented “full-stack” Data Scientist with strong applied ML intuition and a bias toward impact, who can own and drive forward challenging, high-visibility initiatives such as:

• Advance Airbnb’s content integrity capabilities by building Natural Language Processing (NLP) and LLM-based models that understand intent, policy compliance, quality and risk across listings, profiles, and user communications
• Develop high-performing models for detecting problematic or misleading content, including text classification, semantic similarity, information extraction and generative model-based reasoning for policy interpretation and enforcement
• Design and optimize human-in-the-loop Machine Learning (ML) systems for content review, labeling, escalation and continuous model improvement
• Build systems to detect emerging content risks and abuse patterns across regions, cohorts and surfaces using statistical, ML and representation-learning approaches
• Design intelligent sampling and evaluation strategies to measure rare events, policy recall, false positives/negatives and model blind spots in large-scale content systems

A Typical Day: 

• Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning: Build and deploy production AI/ML systems for content integrity and trust content understanding, including feature engineering, model development and evaluation, thresholding, error analysis and end-to-end model lifecycle management. This includes working with NLP and LLM-based models in real production settings.
• Inference: Partner with inference data scientists to conduct rigorous quantitative analyses, applying working knowledge of causal inference to interpret results, assess impact, and identify gaps and opportunities to improve content quality and trust outcomes.
• Optimization: Develop frameworks to analyze tradeoffs between enforcement accuracy, user experience, operational cost and coverage, and propose strategies to optimize overall system effectiveness.
• Communication & Collaboration: Deliver robust research reports with effective data visualizations, clear storytelling and bullet-proof accuracy to drive forward impact in collaboration with cross-functional partners in product, engineering and operations
• Empowerment: Think strategically about how to scale and evolve Airbnb’s content integrity defenses, helping define the long-term vision for the role of AI-driven content understanding across the Trust ecosystem.

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.
• State-of-the-art knowledge of AI/ML models 
• Hands-on experience building, evaluating, and deploying NLP and LLM-based solutions, including text classification, information extraction, semantic understanding or generative applications.
• Working knowledge of causal inference
• Skilled in statistical programming (Python or R) and database usage (SQL)
• Proven ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels
• Ability to translate complex findings and results into compelling narratives that drive impact
• Excellent project management, communication, and collaboration skills
• Trust & Safety experience 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.

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.

The Community You Will Join:

You will join a collaborative team of data scientists, analysts, engineers, product managers and designers who build innovative products for Airbnb guests and hosts. Your core team will consist of data scientists within the Guest & Host Data Science organization, who develop models, measurement frameworks, foundational data products, and intelligence to improve and shape Airbnb marketplace and product. 

The Difference You Will Make:

Under this general application, you will be considered for applications over several tracks.

• Pricing Data Science - Responsible for developing a pricing guidance system for hosts, as well as methods (experimental and observational) to measure the impact of pricing feature launches.
• Guest and Host Product Data Science - Responsible for building optimized products, tools, and programs that empower our hosts to thrive on our platform and our guests to easily discover and book stays that match their needs. 
• Marketplace Data Science - Responsible for building data products, inference frameworks, and intelligence to enable the growth of our marketplace. 

As a data scientist on the team, you will directly impact the Airbnb user community and marketplace with the data products and insights you deliver. Your work may range from building models to understand the impact of supply and demand on marketplace outcomes, to applying causal inference methods to measure the impact of a new pricing guidance tool, to generating destination recommendations based on our understanding of guest travel preferences. 

A Typical Day: 

• Building strong relationships with cross-functional partners across Product, Design, Engineering, and Analytics to drive collaboration and innovation.
• Contribute directly to the development and launch of data-driven products and models, leveraging AI tools to enhance efficiency and impact.
• Writing software in Python, SQL, or R to model, simulate, and measure the impact of new features, applying advanced causal inference techniques where necessary.
• Analyzing structured or unstructured data to uncover meaningful insights and craft actionable proposals that help shape strategy.
• Communicating learnings to leaders and stakeholders in a clear, compelling manner that drives informed data-driven decision making.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of experience with BS/masters degree, 2+ years of experience with PhD.
• Experience with experimentation, causal observational analysis, and machine learning techniques.
• Experience partnering with product, engineering, and design to enable data-driven model or product development.
• Ability to prototype, build, and scale derived data assets.
• Strong coding skills in SQL and either Python or R.
• Strong oral and written communication skills - an ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Work authorization (if applicable)
• Travel requirements (if applicable)

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. 

The Community You Will Join:

The Global Markets team is focusing on evolving our guest and host experiences for global markets to accelerate international growth. Expanding in under-penetrated global markets is a key pillar of our company’s growth strategy. To achieve this, we want to innovate in every sense of the world and adapt our product for every corner of the globe. We want every user in each of our 220+ countries and regions to feel right at home. 

The Difference You Will Make:

In this role, you will partner closely with product managers, designers, engineers and operations across regions to build and optimize products that resonate with Airbnb guests and hosts around the world. Your work will span a variety of impactful projects, touching multiple markets and product surfaces. You will have the opportunity to directly contribute to global markets products by transforming business goals into measurable outcomes, diving deep into customer behavior nuances, delivering statistical insights and data products, and championing the technical solutions that ensure our products are thoughtfully tailored to the needs of our diverse user base.

A Typical Day:

• Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define product scopes, evaluate impact, and set roadmap priorities
• Architect and implement rigorous measurement plans, using A/B tests and quasi-experimental methods to assess product success and inform strategic bets
• Interpret unexpected outcomes, identify bias in experiments, and drive solutions to ensure measurement quality 
• Conduct in-depth research into customer behaviors and preferences across markets to unlock opportunities for international business growth
• Develop scalable frameworks, models and systems that enable product features to be more refined and tailored to the needs of local markets
• Actively present data findings and ideas to stakeholders at different levels, and turn proposals into actions and tangible results for the business and our customers

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment with a BS/Master’s in a technical field related to mathematics, computer science, statistics, economics, machine learning, or 2+ years of relevant experience and a PhD in similar fields.
• Strong knowledge of causal inference and experimentation
• Expertise in SQL, Python or R
• Ability to solve business problems using appropriate methods and models
• Strong stakeholder communication skills and the ability to translate complex analyses into compelling narratives and business actions
• Working experience on marketplace at a global scale is a plus

Your Location

This position is China - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies.

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.