Data Science Manager on Risk

Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone or tablet.

As a Data Science Manager on Risk, you will have the opportunity to lead and mentor a team of data scientists and analysts to collaborate with a strong team of engineers and product managers to leverage Airbnb’s rich and unique data and state-of-art machine learning infrastructure.

• Building machine learning models to detect high risk transactions or interactions
• Experimentation of product features to deter and mitigate risk
• Devise optimization models to make optimal business decisions while minimizing risk
• Innovate and make advances on adversarial modeling

• PhD or equivalent work experience in a quantitative field preferred
• 5+ years in industry, financial fraud experience preferred
• 2+ years of mentorship and management experience
• Ability to write and mentor code development in SQL and Python (or R)
• Strong understanding of statistics and machine learning
• Experience on designing, building, scaling, and supporting machine learning models (fraud models preferred)
• Intuition for data science best practices, stemming from proven experience
• Steadfast focus on creating impactful change