Product Manager, Airbnb
Trips
$200-240k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-240k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years in product marketing or product management, with a track record of moving a core growth metric (conversion, attach, frequency, or revenue per customer) through features you led to launch
- Strong execution: you've led cross-functional teams through complex launches on time and at a high quality bar, often with several features in flight at once
- Experience working on two-sided marketplaces or multi-product platforms, balancing what's right for customers with what makes supply and partners successful
- Fluent in experiment results: you can define what a test needs to learn, read growth metrics alongside guardrails like satisfaction and retention, and turn them into product decisions
- Strong judgment of consumer product quality, and a clear sense of what makes an experience useful and delightful
- Ability to earn the trust of engineering, design, and data science partners and lead without formal authority
- Clear, structured communicator who can distill complex tradeoffs for executives and translate strategy into actionable guidance for teams
- Experience at a fast-growing consumer marketplace, launching a new category or business line (preferred)
What the job involves
- Our Product Marketing Managers work backwards from the ideal experience for guests and hosts, turning product thinking, data, and research into strategy
- They lead cross-functional teams across engineering, design, data science, program management, and marketing, and they stay detail-oriented and hands-on
- The Guest product team builds the end-to-end journey guests take with us, from the first idea through the trip itself
- Trips is where that journey comes together: the place guests see their reservations, plan what to do, coordinate with their group, and add experiences and services to their stay
- Airbnb is expanding beyond stays into experiences and services
- Trips is where that growth happens: guests who have already booked a stay discover and book everything else for their trip
- As Product Marketing Manager for Trips, you'll help build that business from its early stages into a habit for millions of guests
- You'll own the feature roadmap across much of the Trips program and make the calls on scope and priority with your design and engineering teams
- You'll lead those teams from brief to launch, use a steady cadence of experiment results to decide what to build next, and grow the share of trips that include experiences, services, and more
- You'll also craft the product narrative that explains each release to leadership internally and to guests externally
- Translate business goals into product briefs and requirements for new Trips features, each grounded in a real guest need
- Drive execution with engineering, design, data science, and program management, from concept through launch and iteration, often with many features in flight at once
- Shape how and when we suggest the next booking: in-app placements, personalized ranking, offers, and lifecycle messaging across the guest's trip
- Work with supply, partnerships, and operations teams so the experiences, services, and partner offerings guests see are relevant, available, and easy to book
- Partner with data scientists and engineers on the experiments they run in product, synthesize the outcomes, and make clear calls on what to scale, iterate on, or stop
- Make prioritization calls when guest experience, business impact, and engineering cost pull against each other, and keep partners aligned
- Present strategy and results in leadership reviews, turning complex tradeoffs into clear decisions and concise narratives
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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