[Hiring] Senior SEO Strategy Lead @Airbnb

Role Description

As Senior Growth Marketing Lead, SEO, AEO, GEO, you will own the strategy and day-to-day execution for how Airbnb shows up in Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and the assistants that come next. You are an execution-focused operator with a career built in SEO — you write your own SQL, size opportunities from raw data, and ship. Success in this role means measurable gains in organic visibility, rankings, AI citations, traffic, bookings, and downstream conversion, along with a measurement framework that proves the business value of organic channels. This is a chance to define what AEO and GEO mean for Airbnb and build the playbook others follow.

A Typical Day

• Own the organic growth strategy and content roadmap across SEO, AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) — covering technical SEO, content, on-site experience, and visibility in AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Perplexity.
• Manage internal content strategy for these acquisition channels: set priorities, briefs, templates, and quality standards for content and landing pages that drive organic and AI-referred traffic.
• Run the channel hands-on — pull and analyze your own data in SQL, size opportunities, prioritize by impact, and drive launches and experiments from backlog to measured result.
• Lead cross-functional relationships with product and engineering teams, embedding SEO and AEO best practices into web properties, app surfaces, and structured data.
• Improve how well AI models understand Airbnb's listings, product, and policies so they represent Airbnb accurately and cite it as a source.
• Build and evolve the measurement framework for SEO, AEO, and GEO — attribution models, leading and lagging indicators, dashboards, and revenue impact — including the ability to demonstrate the value of work that's difficult to attribute, such as preventive technical work or emerging AI channels.
• Establish Airbnb's point of view on how AI-generated answers are reshaping travel discovery, and translate complex technical concepts into clear business narratives for senior leaders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in SEO, including 2+ years in a senior/leadership capacity engaging with executives.
• Strong SQL skills, writing your own queries to analyze crawl, log, search console, and conversion data without relying on analysts for core questions.
• Proven track record of shipping SEO programs at scale and driving significant organic growth, from prioritization through launch and measurement.
• Expertise in both technical SEO and content strategy, including site architecture, structured data, indexation, and content quality.
• Working knowledge of how AI-powered search and answer engines operate (LLM-based retrieval, citation behavior, entity recognition), with a clear point of view on how to optimize for them.
• Strong analytical foundation, comfortable with attribution challenges and building measurement frameworks that quantify the business impact of organic channels.
• Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, product, content, and data science teams to implement SEO and AEO improvements at scale, and a track record of developing and retaining high-performing teams.
• Preferred: experience in a two-sided marketplace or travel business where listing, location, and user-generated content pages are major organic surfaces; background in international SEO across multiple markets and languages; experience building programmatic or product-led SEO at scale; early-mover experience in AEO/GEO visibility monitoring and optimization; hands-on skill with Python, BigQuery, or similar tools and log/crawl analysis at scale.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and progressive experience.

Location

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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.

Pay Range

$196,000 — $245,000 USD