The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
Define and drive the roadmap for Airbnb's relevance and personalization: platform — from natural language query understanding to multi-turn, context-aware discovery experiences
Make prioritization calls that balance multiple competing objectives: guest experience, host success, revenue, fairness, and marketplace health
Partner with ML engineers and applied researchers to shape model strategy,: evaluation frameworks, and experimentation design
Align cross-functional partners: Guest, Host, MarTech, Trust & Safety, Customer Support — on shared goals and sequencing
Drive the Tripcycle vision: ensuring R&P's intelligence layer connects across the full trip lifecycle, from inspiration through post-trip
Design and oversee A/B experiments with rigorous metric design and long-term effect measurement
What they're looking for
- Translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear decisions for engineering: teams and concise narratives for leadership
- Foster an environment where engineers and product managers collaborate on building the future
- Stay close to guests and hosts: synthesize user research, marketplace data, and competitive signals to sharpen your intuition and refine strategy
- + years of product management experience, with at least 3 years on ML,: search, recommendations, or AI-powered products at scale