Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics, Incubations

The Community You Will Join: 

Airbnb is looking for an experienced strategic finance & analytics professional to support our Airbnb Commercial Strategy & Planning Team. This team (1) supports overall strategic planning across the Commercial Business Organization (CBO) and Strategic Finance & Analytics (SFA) and (2) partners with the business across host-facing services and supply category incubations.

The Difference You Will Make:

The Principal will work in cross functional teams spanning business, data science, finance, advanced analytics, and product marketing. This individual will build business cases and synthesize key insights that shape decisions around our supply strategy. This individual should be comfortable working with large data sets and performing rigorous financial analysis. Business insights will impact decisions around our supply incubations. In particular, this individual will support the following:

• New Opportunities. Identify new growth opportunities that the company could pursue to increase company revenue and profitability. Evaluate proposed initiatives from across the company and determine their feasibility and potential. Perform rapid and accurate opportunity sizing with an eye towards sustainable growth and long term differentiation
• Business Insights. Serve as an internal consultant, partnering with teams and executives in answering questions around Airbnb performance, competitors, and industry dynamics. Advise business leaders and decision makers on risks, opportunities, and trade-offs so they have the full picture
• Operational Excellence. Identify and understand the key metrics that explain business performance. Lead conversations around OKRs and targets, building buy-in and alignment across teams. Ensure teams are equipped with the correct reporting systems and tools to track and understand performance. Lead internal processes to ensure effective cross functional collaboration

The Principal is expected to be a strong cross-functional business partner who has a combination of hands-on analytical skills, financial modeling expertise, business savviness, and the ability to package their insights into strong narratives appropriate for senior executive consumption. The ideal candidate relishes the opportunity to roll-up their sleeves to drive meaningful impact, possesses strong stakeholder management skills, and is a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity in a fast paced work environment.

This person will have a high degree of visibility with senior management, including the VP of Business, Product Marketing and Growth Marketing leadership, and Finance leadership.

A Typical Day: 

• Develop insightful recommendations based on hands-on analytics, financial modeling, and strategic analyses. Help bring together insights and data from across the company into a single, synthesized view that provides the company with clear, compelling recommendations that drive impact.
• Support development of business strategy and drive outcomes across our Host communities. Develop a deep understanding of what drives growth and efficiency for our business, and partner with the leadership team to translate insights into action
• Identify step-change opportunities by partnering with key stakeholders to identify areas of outsized impact through quantitative analysis, industry benchmarks, and competitive research
• Create business cases for new initiatives with an investor mindset, and help leadership prioritize resourcing
• Partner with the business in driving operational rigor and performance management, including development and ongoing analysis of KPIs, dashboards, creating goals/OKRs, and holding the business accountable to those goals

Your Expertise:

• Minimum 8+ years of demonstrated relevant experience. Ideally you have an analytical role such as strategic finance, strategy consulting, biz ops, investment banking, data science / business intelligence, or have been in a similar embedded internal consultancy role
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, accounting, engineering, statistics or other relevant field that demonstrates quantitative orientation. MBA or advanced degree a plus
• Strong knowledge of SQL or some other querying language and using those tools to help synthesize complex information is a must. You must be comfortable manipulating large datasets, creating new analytical frameworks, and extracting actionable insights from that data.Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to put together clear, compelling narratives that are appropriate for consumption by senior executives including the CEO, CFO, and other senior leaders
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft clear, compelling narratives that are appropriate for consumption by the C-Suite and senior executives
• Superb financial modeling skills and extensive experience conducting quantitative and qualitative financial analysis
• Experience in helping scale marketplace businesses from zero to one is a plus
• Demonstrated  ability to work and influence cross-functionally. You are proactive, great at communicating with different audiences and can bring stakeholders on-board. You seek out and have a track record for driving change and impact in a fluid, unstructured working environment

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. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list  If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

Offices: United States