Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community You Will Join:
Our Product Managers imagine the ideal experience for our community and work backwards, creating innovative products that delight our guests and hosts. They deeply understand the needs of our users and translate these into a strategy that combines strong product thinking and deep research. They partner with talented cross-functional team members across engineering, design, operations, data science, and more, leading teams to execute a shared vision. They are incredibly detail-oriented and hands on.
The Difference You Will Make:
Airbnb is seeking an exceptional product manager to reimagine how guests search on Airbnb. Search is the front door to the entire guest experience — the moment someone tells us what they want and we have to understand it, then show them the right options in the right order. Today that means query understanding, filtering, and ranking. Tomorrow it means next-generation AI capabilities that let guests search more naturally, get better matches with less effort, and trust that Airbnb understood what they were actually looking for.
In this role, you will own the vision and roadmap for the future of search at Airbnb — pushing beyond keyword and filter-based search toward more intelligent, conversational, and personalized ways for guests to find their perfect stay. You'll partner closely with engineering, design, and data science teams to bring new AI-powered search capabilities from concept to guests.
This is a high-visibility role building one of the most consequential surfaces in the guest experience, and will regularly interface with senior engineering and leadership stakeholders.
A Typical Day:
- Define and drive the long-term vision and roadmap for the future of search on Airbnb, including next-generation AI capabilities like natural language and conversational search, query understanding, and intelligent ranking.
- Own how guests search on Airbnb end to end — from the moment they express intent to the moment they find the right option.
- Partner closely with engineering, applied ML, and data science teams to design, prototype, and ship AI-powered search experiences.
- Use quantitative analysis and experimentation (A/B testing) to validate that new search capabilities improve relevance, conversion, and guest satisfaction.
- Translate ambiguous guest problems into clear product requirements, prioritized against business impact and technical feasibility.
- Collaborate with design and research to understand how guests search, filter, and decide today — and where AI can remove friction.
- Work cross-functionally with Host-side and Trust teams to ensure smarter search continues to surface the right inventory fairly and accurately.
- Communicate roadmap, results, and trade-offs clearly to engineering partners and leadership.
Your Expertise:
- 10+ years of consumer product management experience, with a track record of owning a product area end to end.
- Experience working on search, discovery, ranking, or recommendation systems is strongly preferred.
- Genuine excitement about applying modern AI and ML capabilities (LLMs, semantic search, conversational interfaces) to consumer product problems.
- Strong business acumen and ability to use data, research, and experimentation to drive product strategy and decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with ML/data science teams and understand the trade-offs of model-driven products.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills across engineering, design, data science, and other cross-functional teams.
- A user-centered mindset — you dig into how guests actually search and where they get stuck, not just metrics dashboards.
Your Location:
Due to the nature of this position, there is a strong preference for the successful applicant will need to be based in San Francisco, CA to be able to conduct their work. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware And Rhode Island. This list is continuously being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
How We'll Take Care of You:
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of consumer product management experience owning a product area end to end.
- Experience working on search, discovery, ranking, or recommendation systems.
- Familiarity or enthusiasm for modern AI and ML capabilities (LLMs, semantic search, conversational interfaces).
- Strong business acumen and ability to use data, research, and experimentation to drive strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with ML/data science teams and understand model-driven product trade-offs.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- User-centered mindset with deep understanding of how guests search and decide.
Airbnb Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Airbnb and has not been reviewed or approved by Airbnb.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay ranges and total compensation components are increasingly disclosed, and country-level pay practices avoid location-based cuts, which feedback suggests improves consistency and perceived fairness.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive core health coverage for employees, mental health resources, and substantial dependent support are repeatedly highlighted as robust and a standout element of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, a winter shutdown, sabbaticals, and paid volunteer time are described as extensive, with parental leave and phased return options reinforcing time-off flexibility.
Airbnb Insights
What We Do
Airbnb is a community based on connection and belonging—a community that was born in 2008 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to 4 million hosts who have welcomed over 800 million guest arrivals to about 100,000 cities in almost every country and region across the globe. Hosts on Airbnb are everyday people who share their worlds to provide guests with the feeling of connection and being at home. At Airbnb, we believe that hosts, guests and the communities where we operate are all stakeholders we have a responsibility to serve, and that by serving them alongside our employees and investors, we will build an enduringly successful company.
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