Senior Principal, Competitive Intelligence
Serve as Airbnb's go-to authority on the competitive landscape, including competitors, adjacent marketplaces, travel industry, and macroeconomic trends. Synthesize signals into actionable narratives for executive decision-making through monitoring, deep dives, data strategy, and cross-functional enablement. Requires 12+ years in finance/analytics/consulting.
About the job
Competitive Monitoring
- Develop and manage regular reporting to review key metrics across marketplace and product.
- Track developing news and industry trends.
- Lead monthly leadership insights forum.
Strategic Deep Dives
- Partner with key stakeholders across Supply, Global Markets, Product, and Marketing to conduct deep dives that will inform key decisions.
Data Strategy
- Lead the competitive intelligence data strategy — evaluate data required to achieve key growth initiatives and potential data sources.
- Own relationships with external data providers and research vendors.
Cross-Functional Enablement
- Ensure competitive insights and datasets are accessible and actionable for XFN teams.
- Partner with Engineering and Data teams to deliver reliable reporting infrastructure.
Requirements
- 12+ years of relevant business and insights experience. Ideally a mix of finance and analytics, management consulting, investment banking, and/or business operations.
- AI proficient or able to become AI proficient (Claude or Gemini).
- Ability to work and influence cross-functionally. Proactively facilitating connections between teams.
- Strong communication skills with audiences at various levels. Enjoy working with fragmented information and synthesizing it into a story with recommendations.
- Advanced presentation skills (Google Docs, Keynote, Excel).
Skills
Competitive Intelligence, Data Strategy, Business Analytics, Financial Analysis, Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Ai Proficiency, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Executive Communication, Presentation Skills, Google Docs, Keynote, Excel
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