Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics, Incubations

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

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 he