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