[Hiring] Product Manager, Social Features @Airbnb

Role Description

As Product Marketing Manager for Social Features, you'll lead a new pod that turns guests' connections into reasons to come back to Airbnb. You'll own the features people use with their friends: the travel map and sharing it, group travel tools, recommendations from people you know, and how connections are woven across Airbnb to make the whole travel experience better.

• Work backwards from the guest: write crisp briefs and requirements for new features, each grounded in a real guest need and a clear definition of success.
• Prototype with AI first: build working prototypes yourself to explore ideas, test them with guests, and align the team in days rather than weeks.
• Drive execution with engineering, design, data science, and program management, from concept through launch and iteration, often with several features in flight at once.
• Go deep with the team on the details: review builds, test flows yourself, and chase down the edge cases that decide whether a feature delivers for guests.
• Shape how connections are integrated across the guest journey, from search and booking to Trips, so planning and traveling with people you know feels natural.
• Build shareable, delightful moments like the travel map that bring new people to Airbnb and grow the social graph.
• Partner with the social graph and social experiences pods, and with Trips, Search, Checkout, and other partner teams, to ship work that spans surfaces.
• Design for trust and privacy from the start, with clear controls over what people share and with whom.
• Put mechanisms in place, like goals and a weekly metrics review, so the team knows where it stands and acts on it.
• Partner with data scientists on experiments, dive deep into the results, and make clear calls on what to scale, iterate on, or stop.
• Present strategy and results in leadership reviews, turning complex tradeoffs into clear decisions and concise narratives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product marketing or product management, with a track record of moving a core consumer metric (engagement, retention, sharing, or conversion) through features you led to launch.
• Experience building social or network-driven products: sharing, invites, feeds, profiles, group features, or connection-based recommendations.
• Deeply AI-native in how you work: you use AI tools every day for prototyping, research, specs, and analysis, and you've changed how your team builds because of it.
• Obsessed with the details: you go as deep as it takes with engineering and design, from data to edge cases, to make sure what ships drives great outcomes for guests.
• Strong execution and a bias for action: you've led cross-functional teams through complex launches on time and at a high quality bar, and you move fast on decisions that are easy to reverse.
• Fluent in experiment results: you can define what a test needs to learn, read growth metrics alongside guardrails like trust, privacy, and satisfaction, and turn them into product decisions.
• Strong judgment of consumer product quality, a high bar for craft, and a clear sense of what makes an experience fun, useful, and worth sharing.
• Comfort working in a new, fast-moving area where you set the roadmap and build the team's operating rhythm.
• Ability to earn the trust of engineering, design, and data science partners and lead without formal authority.
• Clear, structured writer and communicator who can distill complex tradeoffs for executives and translate strategy into actionable guidance for teams.
• Experience at a consumer marketplace or travel company, or launching a new social product at scale (preferred).

Requirements

• We are open to candidates in multiple locations, but we ask that you are able to work Pacific Time Zone work hours as needed.
• 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.

Benefits

• 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: $200,000 — $240,000 USD.

Company Description

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.