# Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics, Technology

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $168,000-$206,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63327

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## Description

We are looking for a Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics, Technology to join our team. The successful candidate will partner across Infrastructure, Engineering, and Product teams to plan, forecast, and manage the cost of running Airbnb's cloud and AI platforms.

Key responsibilities:

- Build and maintain the monthly/weekly cloud and AI cost forecast, reconciling actuals against plan and explaining variance drivers to leadership.

- Track AI spend by category and by model/provider mix, flagging shifts in usage or pricing that affect the forecast.

- Partner with Infrastructure and AI Platform engineering teams to size, validate, and prioritize efficiency initiatives.

- Own migration-tracking reporting and ensure the underlying data is traceable back to source systems.

- Prepare and present cost updates to a broad, senior audience, translating technical usage data into clear financial narratives.

- Identify and quantify new cost efficiency opportunities in partnership with technical stakeholders, and track them through to landed savings.

Requirements:

- 10 years of finance, FP&A, or cost management experience, ideally including direct exposure to cloud infrastructure costs.

- Prior experience with AI/ML infrastructure costs strongly preferred.

- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain complex financial models and forecasts in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.

- Strong track record partnering with engineering/technical teams to translate usage data.

This is a remote-eligible role, and the base pay range is $168,000-$206,000 USD per year.

## Skills

### Required
- finance
- FP&A
- cost management
- cloud infrastructure
- AI/ML

### Nice to have
- AI/ML infrastructure costs

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