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# Senior Data Scientist, People Analytics & Research

- **Company:** Airbnb
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Security, HR Analytics, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Large Language Models
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pthne780a2

## About the Role

If you have a proven background in this field and are excited to help build Airbnb's community, we want to hear from you., * 5+ years in industry experience and a Master's degree/PhD in a quantitative field

 * Deep experience with causal inference on observational data and quasi-experimental research design and analysis
 * Proficiency in R or Python for statistical analysis, and SQL for data access
 * Familiarity with survey design and analysis, as one of several methods in the toolkit
 * Experience applying data science to compensation, recruiting, or broader workforce and organizational questions, including work with legally sensitive data
 * Ability to communicate clearly and effectively to cross functional partners of varying technical levels and drive impact
 * Experience working with large practical datasets

## Description

* Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to understand people-related business problems, and gather relevant people data to analyze
 * Utilize appropriate statistical models and data science methodologies to gain insights, explain, or predict a wide variety of people-related processes, such as recruiting and hiring, promotion, retention, pay equity, productivity, and organizational effectiveness, among others
 * Translate data and insights into meaningful visualizations and stories to drive strategy, action, and decision-making with leaders across the business
 * Align research priorities with business priorities and take a customer-focused mindset in working with stakeholders
 * Lead the team's compensation analytics - the recurring, legally sensitive analyses that inform Total Rewards decisions on pay, compensation structure, and talent awards - in close partnership with Employment Legal and Total Rewards
 * Lead design and measurement of Airbnb's quality-of-hire metric with Recruiting, and own sensitive statutory and governance reporting
 * Be a constant learner, active listener, and teacher to advance data science, people analytics, and Airbnb
 * Use AI fluently - including the team's AirPanda platform and LLM-based agents - to accelerate analysis, prototyping, and synthesis, and to extend what a single researcher can deliver