JL

Jimmy Li

Director, Analytics @ Airbnb

San Francisco Bay Area

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

  • 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