Senior Manager, Experiences Sourcing - EMEA

The Community you will join:

Every day, Airbnb hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. Since our founding, more than 5 million hosts have welcomed over 1.5 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

The Supply Experiences team is a unique, multidisciplinary team responsible for partnering with our Hosts to conceptualize and develop high-quality, repeatable and commercially viable experiences that are in alignment with our brand values. In partnership with our cross-company peers, we invent novel ways to foster human connection and belonging in our shared physical world.

The difference you will make:

The Senior Manager, Experiences Sourcing for EMEA will be responsible for researching, curating, sourcing, and acquiring high-quality, in-demand experiences for the Airbnb platform. You will work cross-functionally to deliver month-over-month experience supply goals in the assigned market.

This creative, organized and passionate individual will support teams and projects to bring new experience supply to the platform.

A typical day: 

• Create and deploy scaled strategies to effectively source and secure Experiences Hosts
• Prospect, present and onboard new, high quality supply in your assigned geography based on established criteria
• Ensure vendor-sourced leads meet Supply definition and quality guidelines.
• Develop and own the supply strategy for your assigned market - identify and execute on new ways to grow the number of professional hosts on Airbnb
• Develop strong and long lasting partnerships
• Develop deep knowledge of your assigned geographic markets and become the go-to source for all information relating to local trends and market dynamics for internal and external partners 
• Respond to and deliver exceptional service to your professional hosts in a timely and efficient manner, occasionally traveling to your market to provide in-person support and guidance
• Work cross-functionally with product, communications, public policy and customer support teams to ensure our long-term market success.

Your expertise: 

• 12+ years of overseeing talent partnerships, creative development, editorial sourcing or similar experience in high-growth environments.
• Creative, curatorial eye, and a knack for trendspotting. Proven sharp sense for identifying experiences that represent the current cultural pulse of a city.
• A strong track record of managing cross-functional relationships including a broad spectrum of creative, technical and business disciplines to effectively work a leads portfolio and/or a book of business
• Proactive self starter, with an ability to work at both strategic and tactical levels
• Consumer-centric mindset and evidence of delivering world class product/service for a renowned brand. 
• Experience with management of outside vendors to source and acquire experiential products.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to communicate effectively with clients via phone, email, and in-person
• Proficient quantitative skills and proven ability to interpret and apply data throughout your day-to-day work
• Ability to work within tight deadlines, adjust to changes in priorities, and balance short-term needs with long-term strategic initiatives
• Available to travel to assigned markets 
• Passion for Airbnb, travel, and the sharing economy

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.