Jimmy Li
Director, Analytics @ Airbnb
San Francisco Bay Area
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Education
- MS
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Work Experience
2025
Director, Analytics
2025
Using data and AI to improve the end-to-end experience for guests and hosts
2025 - 2025
Member of Data Science Staff
2025 - 2025
Using data and AI to grow the business
2023 - 2025
Founder
2023 - 2025
Built a social shopping product
2022 - 2023
Data & Strategy
2022 - 2023
Led data strategy and partnered across EPD+GTM teams to build new data products
2021 - 2022
Growth & Data
2021 - 2022
Led PLG, launched free plan + SEO + content/influencer marketing, grew top-of-funnel / signups / active users, built end-to-end analytics of the user journey from first touch to monetization, identified high conversion paths, prioritized PQLs for sales team, scored account health for CS team
2016 - 2021
VP / Head of Data
2016 - 2021
Built and led a team that uses data and ML to invest in and support the best consumer tech startups across the globe
2014 - 2016
Business Operations / Corporate Development
2014 - 2016
- Assembled warehouse of market data, tracked competitive landscape, created algorithms and dashboards to surface trends - Sourced and diligenced strategic acquisition opportunities - Evaluated and recommended strategies to grow the business in new markets
2009 - 2014
PhD student
2009 - 2014
Affiliated with the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the MIT Sloan Marketing group. Applied machine learning to estimate cross-price elasticities and optimize SKU pricing. Teaching assistant for: - 6.041/6.431/6.041x: Probabilistic Systems Analysis (undergraduate, graduate, and online MITx/edX versions) - 6.231: Dynamic Programming & Stochastic Control (graduate level) - 15.730: Data, Models, and Decisions (Executive MBA '13) - 15.809: Marketing Management (Sloan Fellows MBA '13 and '14)
2011 - 2011
Algorithmic Trading Intern
2011 - 2011
Conceived, coded, and backtested algorithmic trading strategies for S&P and Nasdaq futures using supervised learning
2008 - 2009
Software Engineer
2008 - 2009
Software engineer on Google Ad Planner: providing data insights on website traffic, audience demographics, and commonly searched keywords