Senior Principal of Strategic Finance & Analytics, Airbnb
Stays Supply
$196-242.5k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$196-242.5k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate relishes the opportunity to roll-up their sleeves to drive meaningful impact, possess strong stakeholder management skills, and is a self-starter that is comfortable with ambiguity in a fast paced work environment
- 12+ years of relevant experience. Ideally you have an analytical background in strategy consulting, biz ops, investment banking, product management, 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
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to put together clear, compelling narratives that are appropriate for consumption by senior executives including the CEO, CFO, and other senior leaders
- Superb financial modeling skills and extensive experience conducting quantitative and qualitative financial analysis
- Deep experience and understanding of two sided marketplaces, development of market entry strategies, and helping scale businesses
- The ability to work and influence cross-functionally is a must. You are proactive, great at communicating with different audiences and can bring stakeholders on-board
- You seek out and have a track record for driving change and impact in a fluid, unstructured working environment
- You can comfortably manipulate large datasets, create new analytical frameworks, and develop actionable insights
- Strong knowledge of SQL or some other querying language and using those tools to help synthesize complex information is a plus
What the job involves
- Airbnb is looking for a finance & strategy leader to support and evolve our Airbnb Stays Supply Strategic Finance and Analytics team
- This team is responsible for identifying and pursuing opportunities to grow high-quality supply on our marketplace
- The Sr. Principal will work in cross functional teams spanning revenue operations, field operations, data science, finance, advanced analytics, and product marketing to help evaluate and synthesize analytical insights, perform rigorous financial analysis, develop go-to-market strategies, and drive operational excellence
- In particular, this individual will support the Supply team across 3 key pillars including:
- New Opportunities. Identify new growth opportunities that the company could pursue to increase company revenue and profitability
- Supply Insights. Evaluate proposed initiatives from across the company and determine their feasibility and potential
- Perform rapid and accurate opportunity sizing with an eye towards driving short-term growth. Serve as an internal consultant partnering with teams and executives
- .Advise business leaders and decision makers on risks, opportunities, and trade-offs so they have the full picture
- Operational Excellence. Organize and track existing growth levers, measure their performance, and help hold teams accountable for driving improvements to revenue operations, product and marketing
- The Senior 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
- This person will have a high degree of visibility with senior management within the organization, including VP of Supply, Director of Revenue Operations, Product Marketing and Growth Marketing leadership, and Finance leadership
- 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
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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