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Senior Data Scientist, People Analytics & Research

Airbnb · Remote - USA · Remote

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About Airbnb

Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide. Backed by General Catalyst, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

People Analytics & Research is a strong team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Analysts. Our work is highly sought-after, and impacts stakeholders in our People function, and across the business. In this role, you'll take on some of the hardest questions about Airbnb's workforce - how we recruit, pay, develop, and retain our people - partnering with leaders across Recruiting, Compensation, Talent, and the wider business to turn rigorous analysis into decisions they act on. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to understand people-related business problems, and gather relevant people data to analyze
  • Translate data and insights into meaningful visualizations and stories to drive strategy, action, and decision-making with leaders across the business
  • Align research priorities with business priorities and take a customer-focused mindset in working with stakeholders
  • Lead design and measurement of Airbnb's quality-of-hire metric with Recruiting, and own sensitive statutory and governance reporting
  • Be a constant learner, active listener, and teacher to advance data science, people analytics, and Airbnb
  • Use AI fluently - including the team's AirPanda platform and LLM-based agents - to accelerate analysis, prototyping, and synthesis, and to extend what a single researcher can deliver
More about this role

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.

People Analytics & Research is a strong team of Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and Analysts. Our work is highly sought-after, and impacts stakeholders in our People function, and across the business. In this role, you'll take on some of the hardest questions about Airbnb's workforce - how we recruit, pay, develop, and retain our people - partnering with leaders across Recruiting, Compensation, Talent, and the wider business to turn rigorous analysis into decisions they act on.

The People Analytics & Research team is looking for an experienced Data Scientist to lead and/or contribute to our most important research - applying causal inference and quasi-experimental methods to high-stakes people questions: how we recruit, hire, promote, and retain a best-in-class workforce; how we keep key company processes fair; and how work...

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