Research Analyst

About AirDNA

AirDNA began with a big dream in a balmy California garage in 2015. Since then, the technology startup has grown into the leading provider of data and business intelligence for the billion-dollar travel and vacation rental industry—with offices in Denver and Barcelona. 

Our self-serve MarketMinder platform eliminates guesswork and equips Airbnb hosts with smart and competitive insights needed to succeed in the ever-evolving short-term rental landscape. 

We also arm enterprise clients with customized reports and in-depth dashboards to ensure they can scale and invest strategically. These customers include hundreds of top financial institutions, real estate companies, vacation rental managers, and destination marketing organizations around the world. 

We track the daily performance of over 10 million Airbnb and Vrbo properties across 120,000 global markets. We also collect data from over a million partner properties. This marriage of scraped and source data, enhanced by our proprietary algorithms, makes our solutions the most accurate and comprehensive in the world. 

We’re firm believers that data isn’t the destination; it’s the starting point. The launchpad. The bedrock for any future-forward business.

The AirDNA Team

At AirDNA, we’re a team of data nerds on a mission to empower our customers to smartly grow their businesses. And we're looking for people with a broad range of experiences and perspectives, who are excited by our mission, values, and drive to change the short-term rental market. In short: Life is never boring here. And we genuinely live and breathe our company values: Happy, Hungry and Honest. People who are ready to exemplify these values are especially encouraged to apply. We invite you to apply even if you are unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. We carefully consider every application, not just those that check off all the boxes.

The Role:

We’re seeking a Research Analyst to generate impactful analysis and research content related to the short-term rental (STR) industry to support and enhance sales, marketing, and public relations activities. Your work will play a vital role in uncovering insights, identifying trends, and sharing compelling data stories that highlight the performance of the STR market.

Here's what you'll get to do:

• Master the Data: Develop a deep understanding of our internal property performance dataset, enabling you to query and aggregate data on the historical performance of STR properties across diverse geographies, property types, and room categories.
• Analyze and Interpret Trends: Identify key drivers of change within the STR sector and distill complex data into actionable insights for clients, sales teams, and media outlets.
• Create Engaging Visual Content: Design and produce data visualizations, including charts, graphs, and tables, to make trends and insights easily understandable for a wide range of audiences.
• Develop Written Content: Generate regular reports, blogs, or articles featuring analysis and visualizations that illustrate the performance of the STR sector.
• Support Sales and Marketing: Provide data-driven responses to questions from sales and marketing teams to fuel revenue growth.
• Engage with Media and Industry Leaders: Respond to press requests with relevant data and insights, and help update presentations for leadership and sales teams to share at industry conferences.

Here's what you'll need to be successful:

• 2+ years of experience in research, data analytics, or hospitality (Short-term rentals or hotel operations).
• Demonstrated ability and technical proficiency to query large datasets using SQL, analyze data in Excel, and create visualizations in tools like Tableau.
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Hospitality, Information systems, Statistics, or another quantitative field.
• Background and/or interest in the Hospitality and Short-term rental industry.
• Analyst mindset and an ability to identify opportunities to automate processes. Confidence working with dirty or incomplete datasets, recognizing anomalies, and implementing solutions to ensure accuracy.
• Have strong written + oral presentation skills to communicate findings in support of marketing efforts and ability to effectively write and convey complex research findings in a way that resonates with audiences, along with clear verbal communication for cross-functional collaboration.
• Be a self-starter with an eagerness to dive into new research projects and see them through to fruition with flexibility and ability to manage oneself effectively
• A passion for digging into data, asking the “why” behind the numbers, and identifying meaningful trends.
• Ability to communicate effectively and establish strong working relationships with executive management, internal clients, team members and other departments.

Here's what would be nice to have:

• Ability to create compelling, actionable data visualizations via Excel, Tableau or PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with any of the following: Snowflake, SQL, Python, Jira, Jupyter Notebooks and related toolsets.
• Familiarity with statistical methods.
• Comfortable working with variously formatted external data sets.

Here's what you can expect from us:

• Competitive Salary
• Indefinite contract
• Eligible for a 5% annual bonus
• 62 days per year to work from anywhere!
• 36 holidays per year
• Four remote fixed weeks
• Continuing education stipend
• 150 EUR to spend with Cobee card available monthly for public transport, daycare, pension plan, restaurants and health insurance
• Health insurance with Sanitas (Vision + Dental included)
• Individual growth plan to progress in the role
• Standard working hours from 11 am to 7 pm
• A fun and sunny office with big terraces
• Talented international team and a vibrant work environment
• Bottom-up management: we listen to your ideas and implement them
• Team building events
• Dog friendly office!

Hiring Process

• First stage: Interview with the People Team at AirDNA (Online-30min)
• Second stage: Meet our Hiring Manager + Peer (Online-40min)
• Third stage: Technical Assessment
• Final stage: Assessment review with HM and Peers (Online-1hour)




• Ideal start date: February

AirDNA seeks to attract the best-qualified candidates who support the mission, vision and values of the company and those who respect and promote excellence through diversity. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical or mental disability, marital, familial or parental status, genetic information, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected classification. The company complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and prohibits unlawful harassment based on any of the aforementioned protected classes at every location in which the company operates. This applies to all terms, conditions and privileges of employment including but not limited to: hiring, assessments, probation, placement, benefits, promotion, demotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, training and development, social and recreational programs, education assistance and retirement. 

We are committed to making our application process and workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. Upon request, AirDNA will reasonably accommodate applicants so they can participate in the application process unless doing so would create an undue hardship to AirDNA or a threat to these individuals, others in the workplace or the company as a whole. To request accommodation, please email [email protected]. Please allow for 24 hours to process your request.