Data Scientist - Payments and Monetization

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.

The data scientists in this space work on growing Airbnb profitably by addressing questions like which payment methods to adopt to stimulate growth, how to optimize transaction routing to processors, how to find anomalies in transactions, how to optimize our fees/pricing of existing products, how to determine fees for new products.

This role has the potential for massive impact on Airbnb's profitability. You will collaborate with a strong team of engineers and product managers and leverage Airbnb’s rich data and state-of-art machine learning infrastructure. You will develop data products that are used by millions of users and propel the profitable growth of our business.

• Training in a quantitative science, including applied math, statistics, operations research, economics, or computer science. PhD preferred.
• Experience with languages used for querying (e.g. Hive/Pig/SQL), preprocessing (e.g. unix/python), and statistical analysis (e.g. R/Stata)
• Proven achievements resulting from data analysis and ability to succeed in both collaborative and independent work environments.
• Nice to have: experience with payments, pricing, financial analysis, optimization, machine learning.