Senior Business Insights Analyst, BizTech

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:

The BI&A team manages analytics, metrics, and reporting, delivering insights that drive business decisions for finance operations. We are looking for a Senior data analyst to own the tax data and reporting delivery for direct and indirect taxes globally. The role will collaborate with a global team of tax professionals, tax product teams, tax platform data and engineering teams to ensure that Airbnb meets the growing global tax compliance requirements with the highest standards of tax technology and data. This role will be directly responsible for delivering tax data reporting for billions of global taxes collected and remitted on Airbnb’s global platform. This position reports to the Senior Manager, Finance Data Analytics.

 

The Difference You Will Make:

• Deliver monthly and quarterly tax compliance reporting and support tax data audits across various tax domains.
• Drive automation and build data validations and controls to ensure the data delivered to hosts and compliance authorities meets high-quality standards.
• Design and build data visualizations and dashboards to monitor key trends and drive business decisions.
• Understand data needs by interfacing with partner tax stakeholders, data analysts, data engineers, and business partners.
• Build and validate new data models and pipelines in partnership with Data Engineering.
• Collaborate with finance stakeholders on data research to drive product and business decisions.
• Become a data expert in the tax data domain and be held accountable for data quality within your business domain.

Your Expertise:

• 7+ years of overall experience in relevant fields.
• Must have experience with taxes, particularly knowledge of payment-level taxes often characterized as SALT, indirect taxes, sales/hotel taxes, or platform taxes for large platform technology companies. 
• Passion for high data quality.
• Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau).
• Expertise in at least one programming language for data analysis (e.g., Python, R) and proficiency in using notebook applications for analysis and validations.
• Strong skills in SQL or other data query languages
• Knowledge of distributed system optimization (e.g., Spark, Presto, Hadoop, Hive).
• Ability to perform data analysis to inform business decisions.
• Proven ability to succeed in both collaborative and independent work environments.
• Detail-oriented and excited to learn new skills and tools.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with an ETL framework like Airflow.
• Knowledge of schema design and dimensional data modeling is a plus.
• An eye for design when it comes to dashboards and visualization tools.
• Experience with analytical storytelling, using data to support business and product decisions.
• Experience working at a company with large-scale transaction-level and tax data.

 

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.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  

Pay Range$145,000—$167,500 USD