# Staff Analyst, Advanced Analytics, Payments at Airbnb Airbnb is seeking a Staff Analyst for Advanced Analytics within its global Payments division. You'll serve as a strategic data partner to leadership, guiding decision-making across Payments Platform, Product, and Operations teams. Your role combines day-to-day analytics oversight with designing scalable reporting systems that enhance payments operations. You'll identify friction points in user journeys, leverage machine learning and experimentation to solve complex payment challenges, and translate quantitative findings into compelling narratives for executive stakeholders. Day-to-day work includes architecting analytical frameworks, designing rigorous experimentation programs using causal inference and statistical modeling, monitoring payment processing trends, and collaborating with engineers and product managers on infrastructure resilience. You'll develop business reviews and strategic scorecards, size product offerings through data modeling, and track emerging fintech and regulatory developments to identify innovation opportunities. This position requires 10+ years of analytics experience with a strong quantitative background (Master's or PhD preferred in fields like Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, or Data Science). You'll need deep payments domain expertise covering payment processing, risk, and compliance, plus expert-level SQL proficiency and fluency in Python or R. The role is based in the United States and appears to be a full-time, senior-level position. Location: United States Apply: https://getfoundi.com/apply/staff-analyst-advanced-analytics-payments-airbnb-a6943a2a Sourced and republished by GetFoundi - an AI-discoverable job board.