Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests, and they are seeking a Senior Manager for Advanced Analytics in their Fraud & Safety department. This leadership role involves leading a team of analysts to optimize operational performance and build data-driven decision-making systems to enhance safety and fraud prevention measures.
Responsibilities
- Define and operationalize KPI frameworks for global Fraud & Safety operations (quality, accuracy, SLA, productivity, cost)
- Build dashboards and reporting systems to monitor enforcement performance across regions, vendors, and workflows
- Lead weekly/monthly business reviews, translating data into actionable insights for Ops, Policy, and leadership
- Design and lead experimentation (A/B testing, pilots) to improve enforcement quality, reviewer productivity, and user experience
- Identify drivers of errors, escalations, and policy inconsistencies, and translate findings into process improvements
- Partner with Ops and Policy to test and refine enforcement strategies (e.g., thresholds, escalation rules)
- Partner with global operations and vendor teams to optimize staffing, capacity planning, and queue management
- Analyze performance across 3P vendors and internal teams, ensuring SLA adherence and quality standards
- Drive forecasting models to balance cost, coverage, and service levels across high-volume workflows
- Partner with Product and Engineering to translate operational insights into tooling and workflow improvements
- Collaborate with Policy and Legal to ensure enforcement decisions are measurable, auditable, and compliant
- Support high-severity incidents and 'war room' analytics, providing real-time insights during escalations
- Build self-service analytics tools enabling Ops leaders to monitor performance and run scenario analyses independently
- Standardize metrics, taxonomies, and reporting across workflows to create a consistent 'source of truth' for operations
- Drive adoption of data-driven decision-making across global Trust & Safety teams
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in analytics, risk, or safety; 5+ years leading high-performing teams
- Proven ownership of large-scale data products or taxonomies in a regulated environment
- Experience supporting large-scale human operations (content moderation, fraud review, support, or risk ops)
- Strong SQL & data-modeling expertise; experimentation design, working knowledge of Python/R, ML pipelines
- Proven ability to design KPI's and operational metrics
- Proven ability to translate ambiguous problems into structured analytical frameworks
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders (Ops, Product, Policy, Finance)
- Proven ability to drive measurable improvements in quality, efficiency, and cost
- 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
- Background in Trust & Safety, Integrity, Fraud, or Risk operations
- Familiarity with real-time decision engines, and anomaly-detection frameworks
- Experience leading hybrid teams (onsite/remote) and managing third-party analytics vendors
- Statistics or quantitative graduate degree (MS/PhD)
- Experience with workforce planning & forecasting
- Experience with experimentation platforms
- Experience with real-time operations analytics
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
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