Description
Airbnb is entering a new era of reimagining how fraud, safety, and quality are measured, protected, and elevated across the digital landscape.
As a Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics, Fraud & Safety Operations, you will lead a dispersed team of ~8 advanced analysts tasked with turning safety measurement into governed, self-serve decision systems for Policy, Ops, Legal, Product, and Engineering.
The Difference You Will Make: You will be a pivotal leader safeguarding Airbnb's global community, steering a multidisciplinary team that designs, delivers, and scales state-of-the-art analytics for:
- Safety (physical & digital)
- Connected-account & circumvention detection
- Privacy protection & risk management
A Typical Day:
- Own end-to-end analytical workflows for platform safety controls: data ingestion, feature engineering, modeling, experimentation, and visualization.
- Co-own and drive the enterprise-wide 'Safety Single Source of Truth' (SSoT) strategy,a unified, structured data asset and taxonomy that underpins decision-making across Product, Operations, Policy, and Legal.
- Build self-service, data tools that empower non-technical teams to ask deep questions, run 'what if' analyses, and generate actionable, data-backed outcomes.
- Craft compelling narratives and dashboards that surface insights to executives and cross-functional teams.
- Lead incident 'war rooms,' presenting fast, actionable insights during high-severity events.
- Contribute to policy design (e.g., connected-accounts enforcement thresholds).
- Support external audits, law-enforcement requests, and board-level reporting.
- Partner with Policy, Product, Engineering, Fraud and Safety Ops, and Legal to align analytics with global safety and privacy regulations.
Your Expertise:
- 8+ years of experience in analytics, risk, or safety; 3+ years leading high-performing teams.
- Proven ownership of large-scale data products or taxonomies in a regulated environment.
- Strong SQL & data-modeling expertise; experimentation design, familiarity with Python/R; working knowledge of ML pipelines.
- Deep understanding of measuring rare platform events with statistical rigor, user authentication & connected-account vectors, circumvention tactics, and global privacy and data-protection standards.
Good to Have:
- Prior work in marketplace, fintech, or travel/hospitality tech environments.
- Familiarity with real-time decision engines, graph analytics, and anomaly-detection frameworks.
- Experience leading hybrid teams (onsite/remote) and managing third-party analytics vendors.
- Statistics or quantitative graduate degree (MS/PhD).
Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.
How We'll Take Care of You: The base pay range is $212,000-$265,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.