Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics, Acquisition

Airbnb

5d•$168,000 - $206,000•Remote

About The Position

We sit at the intersection of finance, strategy, and the business, partnering directly with leaders to decide where Airbnb invests, how we grow, and what we do next. We expect every member of the team to bring a CFO mindset to budget management, producing actionable insights, owning our performance story, and supporting day-to-day execution. A seat at the table. We're advisors, not just analysts. Our work shapes real decisions, not just decks. A steep learning curve. Small, lean teams and a focus on internal mobility means broad exposure across product and business areas. If you like ambiguity, moving fast, and building the answer instead of just reporting it, you'll fit right in.

Requirements

10+ years in an analytical role such as strategic finance, strategy or management consulting, investment banking, financial planning and analysis, business operations, or private equity, with ownership of recommendations rather than analysis alone.
Strong financial modeling skills and the ability to independently extract and interrogate large datasets, with working SQL proficiency.
Demonstrated strategic thinking, with a track record of translating ambiguous data into decisions senior leaders act on.
Excellent executive communication: leads with the recommendation, calibrates to the audience, and defends assumptions under live scrutiny.
High ownership and sound judgment in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, with rigorous attention to detail.

Nice To Haves

experience in lead generation, supply or customer acquisition, marketing mix and channel efficiency analysis, or evaluating the effectiveness of in-house and outsourced sales channels.

Responsibilities

Lead Generation Performance Management: Own forecasting, goal setting, and executive reporting for lead generation, building scalable frameworks that connect lead volume and quality to activation and revenue.
Full-Funnel Analytics: Analyze stage-by-stage conversion and vendor productivity to identify where leads are lost, why, and what it is worth to fix.
Sales Operations Design: Optimize sales operations across in-house and vendor channels, spanning capacity planning, routing and prioritization logic, incentive structures, and cost-per-activation economics.
Marketing Investment Allocation: Assess brand and search marketing efficiency relative to priority supply markets, and recommend reallocation where returns diverge from where supply is most needed.
Executive Communication: Synthesize complex analysis into clear recommendations, and influence cross-functional stakeholders toward alignment on high-impact investment decisions.