Senior AI-Enabled Insights Lead

The Community You Will Join

Join our dynamic Research Team, which arms Airbnb with actionable insights to inform strategic decisions. You’ll be part of Innovation Insights, a division of Research that delivers insight into cultural trends, the competitive landscape, key audience segments, and new growth opportunities to help shape the future of Airbnb. Innovation Insights is also at the forefront of accelerating research and delivering critical insights using custom-built, cutting-edge AI tools and methods. 

The Difference You Will Make

As Senior AI-Enabled Insights Lead, you will develop and run AI-powered analyses to uncover actionable insight into travelers and travel trends globally, current and prospective Airbnb guests, and current and prospective Airbnb hosts. You will partner with stakeholders across the Research, Strategy, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics and Marketing teams. Your work will grow our competitive advantage via trailblazing, AI-driven research and insights that fuel Airbnb innovation.  

A Typical Day

• Collaborate with a best-in-class research team to deliver insights that impact business strategies.
• Work with internal and cross-functional partners to identify opportunities to drive research efficiencies and business impact.
• Lead and collaborate on building innovative AI-powered methods, including leveraging third-party and in-house tools/infrastructure to build AI-orchestrated pipelines customized for insights-driven analyses.
• Analyze large scale structured and unstructured data from internal sources (e.g., guest searches and reviews), primary research (e.g., interviews conducted globally at scale), and external sources (e.g., social media or chatbot conversations).
• Combine NLP with advanced data analysis and statistical modeling to uncover relationships, test hypotheses and extract new insights. 
• Augment the team’s already advanced use of AI as a complement to, and catalyst for, human insights and expertise. 
• Manage the team’s program for identifying third-party AI tools that add value and extend our capabilities. 
• Learn from, and share with, the Airbnb technical community. 

Your Expertise

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field preferred (social science, computer science, statistics, etc.) and 9+ years industry experience. 
• Expertise in using Python, SQL and agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cline, Codex, and/or Gemini.
• Track record of success in leveraging NLP for the purpose of uncovering insights into human motivations and behaviors.
• Technical expertise in cutting-edge AI techniques and building AI-orchestrated pipelines to analyze complex data; experience using images in AI-powered analysis a plus. 
• History of strong communication and collaboration with cross-functional partners, including partners with and without technical backgrounds. 
• Demonstrated willingness to continue learning, adopt technologies/approaches, and collaborate and share with the technical community.
• Ability to balance a detail-oriented, hands-on approach with creative, “outside-the-box” thinking.
• Growth-minded, solutions-oriented approach with a history of driving projects from idea to impact.

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. Airbnb,Inc. can employ in  states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware and Rhode Island. This list is continuously  evolving and being updated, 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: [email protected]. 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.