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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. About the Team The Finance Data Science team owns the forecasting systems that power Snowflake’s financial planning, operating cadence, and long-term strategy. Our work informs executive decision-making, corporate planning, investor reporting, and cross-functional decisions across Finance, Sales, and Product. We build and operate production forecasting systems for Snowflake’s core money-in metrics, with a particular focus on revenue and bookings in a consumption-based business. Our forecasts are highly visible, widely used, and foundational to how the company plans and operates. This is a high-trust team operating at the intersection of statistical modeling, production systems, and financial decision-making. The Role We are hiring a Senior Applied Scientist to own and advance mission-critical forecasting systems used across the company. This role is not just about building models. It is about developing reliable, explainable, production-grade forecasting systems that leaders can trust to make decisions. You will work on high-impact, open-ended problems involving revenue forecasting, customer consumption behavior, workload ramps, renewals, and other leading indicators that feed Snowflake’s broader financial planning processes. You will partner closely with Finance, Sales, Pr

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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. The Product Data Science team is looking for a Full-stack Senior Data Scientist to come aboard and be part of Snowflake’s most critical initiatives. In this role, you will work closely with our Product and Engineering teams on everything from core operations, to innovative AI/ML tools, to our fastest-growing new and experimental features. You will work on long-running analytical initiatives yielding substantial product enhancements. This is a strategic, high-impact role that will help shape the future of Snowflake products and services. PLEASE NOTE: The position level is determined during the interview process and is influenced by various factors, including experience, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and overall interview performance. AS A SENIOR FULL STACK DATA SCIENTIST AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Be a proactive partner to Product Management and Engineering to shape feature roadmaps and help design metrics and analytical workflows to evaluate their success and effectiveness. Build efficient data models and high quality production pipelines and partner with Engineering for all necessary telemetry. Build scalable and extensible analytics/ML/causal inference frameworks to uncover feature usage patterns, subtle issues with the system, potential performance enhanc

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📍 Menlo Park, California, United States· Full-time
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. About the Team The Finance Data Science team owns the forecasting systems that power Snowflake’s revenue planning and long-term financial strategy. Our work supports corporate planning, executive decision-making, and investor reporting, and we partner closely with Product and Sales to understand customer behavior and product impact. We operate at the intersection of machine learning, statistical research, and corporate finance, building production-grade forecasting infrastructure that is foundational to how the company plans and operates. The Role As a Senior Data Scientist, you will independently lead high-impact modeling initiatives and build production-ready forecasting systems for core financial metrics. You will work on complex, open-ended problems at the intersection of machine learning and business strategy, translating real-world financial questions into rigorous, scalable models. What You’ll Do Design and implement advanced time-series and probabilistic models (e.g., hierarchical models, state-space models, Bayesian approaches, multivariate forecasting). Contribute to internal tooling and shared infrastructure that enables scalable forecasting and analytics. Establish best practices for model evaluation, backtesting, uncertainty quantification, and scenario simulat

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📍 United States· Full-time
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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: MarTech Data Science Measurement empowers Airbnb to optimize marketing ROI by generating data-driven recommendations. We lead the way in defining and advancing best practices for measuring and optimizing marketing impact. We collaborate with Marketing, Finance, and Engineering to provide actionable recommendations and tools based on effective, timely, and granular measurements. Our team’s tenets are: Actionable: Deliver insights that drive confident business decisions. Impactful: Prioritize projects based on their expected value to Airbnb. Balanced: Adapt methods to business questions and data realities, acknowledging limitations. Rigorous: Maintain methodological integrity and quantify the sensitivity of findings. Innovative: Invest in advancing measurement science and developing new methods. Influential: Share learnings across Airbnb and the broader data science community. The Difference You Will Make: We are seeking an experienced (Contract) Sr. Data Scientist for a 24 month contract with deep expertise in marketing measurement, with a particular focus on Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and geo-based causal inference. The ideal candidate brings strong statistical intuition and hands-on modeling experience to quantify the incremental impact of Airbnb's marketing investments across channels and geographies. They are fluent in Python, comfortable working with Bayesian frameworks, and can translate complex measurement findings into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders. A Typical Day: Marketing Mix Modeling: Design, build, and maintain MMM models that est

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $243.3K/yr

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Data Engineering team at Roblox plays a fundamental role in enabling the company's success by developing and maintaining highly leveraged Core Data Sets, frameworks, and tooling to support the growing demand for analytics. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will work to define the data ontology for all of Roblox, establish standard methodologies for data operations and lifecycle management, design and build analytics tooling and frameworks, and influence event instrumentation. Additionally, this role is highly multi-functional, requiring close collaboration with Data Science, Experimentation, and Machine Learning teams to understand customer requirements and analytics applications, as well as with Data Infrastructure and Storage teams to develop integrated solutions. Join us and be a part of a dynamic team driving innovation and growth at Roblox. This role will report to our Engineering Manager on the Data Engineering team. You Will: Partner with Data Science, Product, and Engineering to collect requirements to define the data ontology for all of Roblox Lead and mentor a growing team of Data Engineers to support Roblox's ever-evolving data needs Design, build, and maintain efficient an

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $196.8K/yr

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. With Roblox’s daily active users growing at a record pace, we are seeking a senior data infrastructure engineer to join our new Data Insights team. Our team owns the data tooling that empowers Roblox builders to independently make informed and timely data-driven decisions. As an engineer on the team, you’ll work on the platforms behind tools like Superset, Hex, and Python notebooks, which provide critical insights into the health of our business to users at every level of the company. We tackle diverse challenges in data engineering, infrastructure, and analytics, to deliver the insights our customers need. You will collaborate closely with engineers across our data ecosystem to shape the future of product analytics at Roblox. This role offers the chance to be a founding team member and help define both the technical direction and the long-term shape of the product area from the ground up. This role is a great fit for you if you are proficient in designing and scale robust data infrastructure and applications and have a zeal for developing inspiring, easily maintainable, and reusable code. Join our team and make a significant impact at Roblox. You Will: Architect and deliver a high-pe

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Pricing team sits at the center of product, go-to-market, finance, and strategy. We define how OpenAI packages, prices, and scales access to our products across consumer, SMB, and enterprise customers, turning deeply technical product usage and market signal into company-level decisions. We’re looking for a senior Data Scientist to be the first dedicated data science hire on the Pricing team. This is a rare zero-to-one role with direct exposure to OpenAI’s CFO, Head of Pricing, and senior leaders across Product and GTM. You will help build the analytical foundation for pricing at OpenAI, shape executive decisions, and define what excellent pricing data science looks like. About the Role As a founding Data Scientist for Pricing, you will design the analyses, models, experiments, and decision frameworks that guide pricing strategy across OpenAI’s business. You’ll work side-by-side with the CFO, Head of Pricing, and senior leaders across Product and GTM on ambiguous, high-leverage questions where simple reporting is not enough, translating customer behavior, product usage, revenue outcomes, and market dynamics into clear recommendations. This role combines hands-on technical depth with executive-ready storytelling. You should be excited to build from first principles, operate with high independence, and influence decisions that shape how OpenAI grows and serves customers around the world. In This Role, You Will Serve as a senior analytical partner to the CFO, Head of Pricing, Product, and GTM leaders on pricing and monetization decisions. Build the analytical foundation for pricing across consumer, SMB, and enterprise segments, from exploratory analysis to repeatable decision systems. Design and execute analyses that connect customer behavior, product usage, conversion, retention, revenue outcomes, and pricing strategy. Develop models, algorithms, experiments, and decision frameworks for complex pricing, packaging, discounting, and willingness-t

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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$165K – $270K/yr

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Drata is building the trust layer between great companies - automating compliance, managing risk, and helping organizations prove trust continuously as they scale. We're Dratanauts: a global crew of 600+ professionals united by a culture that rewards integrity, ownership, and raising the bar, no matter where in the world we're working from. Why Join the Drata Team? At Drata, you're not maintaining legacy compliance software - you're building the agentic AI platform defining what trust looks like for the next generation of companies. Here's what makes the work itself worth showing up for: Problems without a playbook: You'll work at the edge of AI and security, building agentic governance, continuous compliance, and real-time trust verification to solve problems that don't have an established answer yet. You're writing it as you go. Real ownership, not just process: Our values center on owning outcomes and raising the bar, not checking boxes. You're expected to have opinions and back them. A seat at the table: Your perspective is unique and valued. Open debate and diverse viewpoints are built into how decisions actually get made here, at every level. Growth at rocketship speed: Drata is scaling fast, which means scope grows fast too. High performers get more ownership, visibility, and experience. A crew, not just coworkers: Dratanauts consistently describe a "come as you are" culture with sharp, curious people—the kind of team that makes hard problems genuinely fun to solve. See what they say here and follow us on LinkedIn for company news, employee stories, and career updates. Job Summary: Drata is looking for a Staff Data Engineer! This person will be a key member of the growing data team, supporting one of the fastest growing B2B SaaS startups to achieve unicorn status. At Drata, we’re on a mission to help build trust across the internet! Data accuracy is an essential cornerstone of our mission. We are looking for a senior data engineer that can help us strategize

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Credit) The Network Value Data Science team is helping Plaid build an industry-leading fintech consumer network with best-in-class products and user experiences. We are a product analytics team embedded in key product areas across Plaid. We support some of Plaid’s most important OKRs and help execute on product roadmaps. We translate ambiguous product questions into tractable analysis, serve as analytical thought partners throughout the org, identify opportunities to build better products, and champion a data-first decision-making approach everywhere we go. You’ll be a Data Scientist supporting Credit, a critical product area within Plaid’s Network Value portfolio. You’ll become a data and analytical thought partner to product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders, helping shape Credit product strategy, improve product performance and user experience, and grow Plaid’s consumer network. You’ll translate business questions into analytics projects, perform ad-hoc and strategic analysis, improve visibility into core systems through data modeling and dashboarding, create OKRs and KPIs tied to business goals and user experiences, a

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📍 United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s Agentic Data Science team helps shape how AI agents are built, deployed, and improved across our products. We partner with product, engineering, research, and security teams to define meaningful measures of success, understand how our systems behave in the real world, and translate evidence into better decisions. As AI agents become more capable, they can write and execute code, access sensitive systems, and complete increasingly complex tasks with greater autonomy. These capabilities create powerful opportunities to improve cybersecurity, but they also introduce risks that traditional security tools and processes were not designed to address. Meeting this moment requires new ways to measure security, evaluate defenses, and distinguish genuine risk reduction from friction that slows users down. About the Role We are looking for a senior data scientist to help define what effective cybersecurity looks like in the age of AI agents. You will work across OpenAI’s Security organization and cybersecurity product teams to measure emerging risks, improve internal security controls, and shape AI-powered security products. The problems are foundational: How do we know whether an agent’s security controls are effective? Which safeguards meaningfully reduce risk, and which create unnecessary friction? When an AI system identifies a potential vulnerability, how do we determine whether the finding is accurate, actionable, and ultimately resolved? How do we detect anomalous behavior or risky access when the systems themselves are changing rapidly? You will report into Data Science while partnering closely with Security, Cyber Product, Engineering, and Research. This is a high-ownership role for someone who can establish a new analytical discipline, operate across organizational boundaries, and turn ambiguous security challenges into measurable improvements. In This Role You Will Define how we measure AI-agent security. Establish metrics and evaluation frame

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s GTM Data Science team helps shape how our products are adopted, monetized, and scaled across organizations. We work at the intersection of Product, Go-to-Market, Finance, Research, and Data, turning product usage, customer evidence, and market signals into decisions that grow durable enterprise value. We’re looking for a senior Data Scientist to own the analytical strategy for enterprise knowledge-worker adoption. As ChatGPT Work and Codex become capable of research, analysis, document creation, spreadsheets, presentations, internal knowledge synthesis, and other agentic workflows, you will help determine how these products become embedded in everyday work—not merely tried once. About the Role You will define how we measure activation, retained usage, workflow depth, and value across ChatGPT Work, Codex, and connected enterprise systems. You will explain why adoption succeeds or stalls and identify the product, enablement, and commercial interventions most likely to create durable usage. This is a hands-on, zero-to-one role. You will work through imperfect telemetry, overlapping product surfaces, evolving definitions, and ambiguous business questions. You will partner closely with GTM, Product, Finance, Research, Customer Deployment, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science. Your work is successful when it changes a product, GTM, or investment decision. In This Role, You Will Define a trusted measurement framework for knowledge-worker adoption, including identity, eligible populations, activation, retained usage, penetration, workflow depth, feature adoption, and monetization. Map the knowledge-worker journey from initial exposure through first successful task, repeated workflows, multi-surface usage, and durable adoption. Identify which personas, functions, use cases, product capabilities, and account conditions are associated with deep and retained usage. Design and evaluate experiments and quasi-experiments across onboarding, enablement, wo

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team: OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital partners, is embarking on a journey to build the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. Our Stargate program develops and deploys massive, state-of-the-art data center campuses in partnership with industry leaders today—and through future OpenAI infrastructure projects tomorrow. We design for scale, speed, and reliability, and we need experienced technicians who can translate network blueprints into physical reality. About the Role: We are seeking a Senior Data Center Networking Technician who thrives in fast-moving build environments and is eager to roll up their sleeves during active datacenter deployments. Your first assignment will focus on the physical bring-up of network infrastructure at a large partner-operated campus, collaborating with partner teams and their delivery vendors to achieve agreed performance and reliability targets. As that campus reaches steady state, you will transition to lead network deployment for future OpenAI data center projects, defining standards and guiding implementation across multiple locations. Candidates must be able to sit onsite in Abilene, Texas 5 days per week Key Responsibilities Serve as OpenAI’s technical lead technician during the current campus build, partnering with internal engineers and external contractors on design reviews, installation plans, and acceptance criteria. Spend significant time on the data-center floor performing inspections, assisting with cable routing/termination when needed, conducting fiber testing (OTDR, power levels, continuity), and resolving installation challenges in real time. Troubleshoot and optimize cabling routes, patching, and equipment turn-up to ensure clean, reliable handoff to network operations. Contribute to design discussions and peer reviews for structured cabling and physical network layouts, providing practical field feedback to engineering teams. Develop repeatable engineering standards, as-built do

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📍 Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States· Remote
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Work Flexibility: Remote As a Senior Lead, Data Engineering, you will serve as a technical leader who helps shape the future of enterprise data solutions. In this role, you will drive complex data initiatives, influence technical strategy, and partner with teams across the organization to build scalable, high-impact data products. This is an opportunity to solve challenging business problems while mentoring fellow engineers and elevating data engineering best practices. What You Will Do Lead the architecture, development, and modernization of scalable enterprise data platforms that support global procurement analytics and business transformation. Define and help execute a multi-year data engineering strategy focused on platform scalability, reliability, automation, technical debt reduction, and long-term maintainability. Design, build, and optimize Azure-based data solutions using technologies such as Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation. Integrate and harmonize data across multiple ERP systems by standardizing supplier, purchasing, and master data into common enterprise data models. Partner with procurement analysts, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate complex business needs into reusable, scalable data products and engineering solutions. Establish engineering standards, conduct architecture reviews, improve documentation, and mentor engineers to raise the overall technical capability of the team. Identify and implement AI-enabled approaches that accelerate development, improve data quality, automate documentation, support testing, and enhance analyst productivity. Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, patterns, and platform investments that improve performance, reliability, security, governance, and operational ef

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📍 San Mateo, CA, United States· Full-time
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From $307.4K/yr

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Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers. WHY DISCOVERY EXPERIENCES? Roblox is not just a platform; it is a complex, two-sided marketplace where millions of creators meet over 70 million daily active users. The Discovery Experiences team is the technical heartbeat of this ecosystem. We own the surfaces—Home, Search, Matchmaking, and Notifications—that determine how users navigate the metaverse. As a Data Scientist , you will own the ranking initiatives that power these canvases. You aren't just building models; you are building the economic and social f

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📍 United States· Full-time
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From $248K/yr

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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 Data Stewardship team is a group of passionate data practitioners with a diverse background in analytics, data modeling, governance, compliance, and scaled data quality. We are responsible for ensuring Airbnb is meeting its compliance obligations across our data ecosystem and ensuring data consumers are able to easily identify the best data for their needs. We support the pipelines, programs, and policy-bodies that make this possible. You’ll be part of the overall Data Infrastructure organization that is responsible for online and offline data infrastructure across the company, and the components that transition data between these environments. The Difference You Will Make Set the North Star: you will define the multi-year vision for Data Governance and Data Quality that scales with our global business and evolving AI landscape. Organizational Influence: Act as a primary consultant for executive leadership on data governance, ensuring that compliance and stewardship are integrated into the data product lifecycle from day one. A Typical Day Architect Ecosystems: Lead the design of overarching data architectures that don't just solve today’s batch needs but anticipate future real-time and AI-driven requirements. Scale Best Practices: Rather than just "ensuring quality," you will define the best practices, tooling, and culture that enable data organizations to maintain high-quality data autonomously. Policy Stewardship: Lead cross-functional task forces (Infosec, Legal, Privacy) to navigate complex regulatory landscapes (like GDPR or AI Act) and translate them int

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