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 Difference You Will Make:
Airbnb is entering a new era—reimagining how fraud, safety, and quality are measured, protected, and elevated across the digital landscape. Reporting to the Director of Advanced Analytics, Fraud & Safety, you will lead a dispersed team of ~8 advanced analysts tasked with turning safety measurement into governed, self-serve decision systems for Policy, Ops, Legal, Product, and Engineering. You will be a pivotal leader safeguarding Airbnb’s global community. You’ll steer a multidisciplinary team that designs, delivers, and scales state-of-the-art analytics for:
- Safety (physical & digital)
- Connected-account & circumvention detection
- Privacy protection & risk management
This role isn’t just about reporting what happened; it’s about building the systems that help Airbnb see around corners. You will democratize data access, build always-on scenario simulators for fraud and safety, and turn incident impacts into seamless signals for continuous improvement. Your insights and systems will empower every stakeholder—from legal to operations, policy to product—to make bold, data-driven, and context-aware decisions in real time.
A Typical Day:
- Own end-to-end analytical workflows for platform safety controls: data ingestion, feature engineering, modeling, experimentation, and visualization.
- A core mandate is to co-own and drive the enterprise-wide “Safety Single Source of Truth” (SSoT) strategy —a unified, structured data asset and taxonomy that underpins decision-making across Product, Operations, Policy, and Legal. Ensure metrics are future-proof, privacy-compliant, and globally scalable.
- Build self-service, data tools that empower non-technical teams to ask deep questions, run “what if” analyses, and generate actionable, data-backed outcomes without gatekeeping.
- Craft compelling narratives and dashboards that surface insights to executives and cross-functional teams.
- Cross-Functional Execution
- Lead incident “war rooms,” presenting fast, actionable insights during high-severity events.
- Contribute to policy design (e.g., connected-accounts enforcement thresholds).
- Support external audits, law-enforcement requests, and board-level reporting
- Partner with Policy, Product, Engineering, Fraud and Safety Ops, and Legal to align analytics with global safety and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Operationalize frameworks that instantly assess and size the platform, reputational, and regulatory impact of safety incidents, enabling rapid escalation, crystal-clear retrospectives, and lessons learned.
Your Expertise:
- 8+ years of experience in analytics, risk, or safety; 3+ years leading high-performing teams.
- Proven ownership of large-scale data products or taxonomies in a regulated environment.
- Strong SQL & data-modeling expertise; experimentation design, familiarity with Python/R; working knowledge of ML pipelines.
- Deep understanding of:
- How to measure rare platform events with statistical rigor
- User authentication & connected-account vectors (e.g., social logins, device fingerprinting).
- Circumvention tactics (e.g., multi-accounting, listing duplication, payment abuse).
- Global privacy and data-protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, etc.).
- Skilled in incident impact scoping, post-incident analytics, and scenario planning or tabletop exercises—translating insights into systematic improvements.
- Track record of enabling legal, policy, ops, product, and engineering teams to make independent, forward-facing, data-driven decisions via self-service
- Exceptional storyteller with a flair for making complex analytics actionable for every audience, and for championing transformation deep into the organization
Good to Have:
- Prior work in marketplace, fintech, or travel/hospitality tech environments.
- Familiarity with real-time decision engines, graph analytics, and anomaly-detection frameworks.
- Experience leading hybrid teams (onsite/remote) and managing third-party analytics vendors
- Statistics or quantitative graduate degree (MS/PhD)
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: [email protected]. 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.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in analytics, risk, or safety
- 3+ years leading high-performing teams
- Proven ownership of large-scale data products or taxonomies in a regulated environment
- Strong SQL & data-modeling expertise
- Familiarity with Python/R
- Deep understanding of global privacy and data-protection standards (GDPR, CCPA)
Airbnb Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Airbnb and has not been reviewed or approved by Airbnb.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay ranges and total compensation components are increasingly disclosed, and country-level pay practices avoid location-based cuts, which feedback suggests improves consistency and perceived fairness.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive core health coverage for employees, mental health resources, and substantial dependent support are repeatedly highlighted as robust and a standout element of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, a winter shutdown, sabbaticals, and paid volunteer time are described as extensive, with parental leave and phased return options reinforcing time-off flexibility.
Airbnb Insights
What We Do
Airbnb is a community based on connection and belonging—a community that was born in 2008 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to 4 million hosts who have welcomed over 800 million guest arrivals to about 100,000 cities in almost every country and region across the globe. Hosts on Airbnb are everyday people who share their worlds to provide guests with the feeling of connection and being at home. At Airbnb, we believe that hosts, guests and the communities where we operate are all stakeholders we have a responsibility to serve, and that by serving them alongside our employees and investors, we will build an enduringly successful company.
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