Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb, founded in 2007, has grown to over 5 million hosts and aims to enhance fraud and safety measures in the digital landscape. The Lead, Advanced Analytics will set high analytical standards, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and build systems to mitigate fraud and safety risks while empowering stakeholders to make data-driven decisions.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Ensure fraud and safety metrics are future-proof, scalable and supported by clear governance, ownership and automated monitoring
- Own launch and decision criteria for fraud and safety experiments by defining launch thresholds, gating metric releases on decision quality, and helping leadership make data-driven decisions
- Support external audits, law-enforcement requests, and board-level reporting with rigorous, well-governed data and clear analytical narratives
- Operationalize frameworks that instantly assess and size the platform, reputational and regulatory impact of fraud incidents, enabling rapid escalation, crystal-clear retrospectives and systematic learning
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in data analytics, fraud, safety, or a related quantitative domain, with deep individual-contributor expertise, or 2+ years of industry experience with a PhD
- Proven ownership of large-scale data products or taxonomies
- Strong SQL and data-modeling expertise; familiarity with Python/R; working knowledge of ML pipelines
- Strong experience designing experiments and applying causal inference methods, ideally in a multi-sided platform setting
- Deep understanding of how to measure rare events with statistical rigor, including prevalence estimation, sampling strategy, and statistical power
- Familiarity with account integrity, user authentication and connected-account vectors, such as social logins, device fingerprinting and related identity signals
- Skilled in incident impact scoping, post-incident analytics, scenario planning or tabletop exercises, and 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 tools
- Exceptional storyteller with the ability to make complex analytics actionable for every audience
- Prior work in marketplace, fintech, or travel/hospitality tech environments
- Familiarity with real-time decision engines, graph analytics, and anomaly-detection frameworks
- Exposure to adjacent trust / risk domains, such as identity verification, fraud, chargebacks, or financial risk management
- Graduate degree (MS/PhD) in statistics, economics, computer science, data science, operations research or another quantitative field
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
Company Overview
Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.airbnb.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Airbnb has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 27 in 2026, 234 in 2025, 176 in 2024, 160 in 2023, 270 in 2022, 250 in 2021, 274 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.