Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics, Fraud & Safety Operations
Airbnb- Compensation
- $212k–$265k Published range
- Location
- US - Remote Eligible Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Director+
About the job
About the Role
Airbnb is entering a new era—reimagining how fraud, safety, and quality are measured, protected, and elevated across the digital landscape. Reporting to the Director of Advanced Analytics, Fraud & Safety, 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. You will be a pivotal leader safeguarding Airbnb’s global community.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Ensure metrics are future-proof, privacy-compliant, and globally scalable.
- Build self-service data tools that empower non-technical teams to ask deep questions, run “what if” analyses, and generate actionable, data-backed outcomes without gatekeeping.
- 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 (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Operationalize frameworks that instantly assess and size the platform, reputational, and regulatory impact of safety incidents, enabling rapid escalation, crystal-clear retrospectives, and lessons learned.
Qualifications
- 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 (e.g., social logins, device fingerprinting); circumvention tactics (e.g., multi-accounting, listing duplication, payment abuse); global privacy and data-protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, etc.).
- Skilled in incident impact scoping, post-incident analytics, and scenario planning or tabletop exercises—translating insights into systematic improvements.
- Track record of enabling legal, policy, ops, product, and engineering teams to make independent, forward-facing, data-driven decisions via self-service.
- Exceptional storyteller with a flair for making complex analytics actionable for every audience, and for championing transformation deep into the organization.
Nice 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).
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.
Compensation & Benefits
Pay Range: $212,000—$265,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
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.
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