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
The Strategic Sourcing team is part of Airbnb’s Global Procurement: organization and plays a key role in enabling Airbnb to operate efficiently and scale sustainably. We partner closely with internal stakeholders to design and deliver sourcing strategies that align with Airbnb’s business priorities while driving innovation, value, and stakeholder success.
We are a collaborative, forward-thinking team that embraces an AI-first: mindset — leveraging technology, automation, and data to simplify processes and unlock new efficiencies. Guided by Airbnb’s mission to create a world where anyone can belong, we focus on delivering value through curiosity, creativity, and integrity.
Key cross-functional partners: Finance, Legal, Business Operations.
As the Sourcing Manager supporting Engineering and Infrastructure, you will: partner directly with engineering leaders to shape how Airbnb sources and manages critical technology capabilities.
This role sits at the center of major technical investments, from: infrastructure platforms to emerging AI technologies. You will design sourcing strategies that balance cost efficiency, engineering velocity, and long-term scalability.
You will also play a key role in advancing how sourcing integrates AI and: automation into its workflows. Rather than simply executing procurement processes, you will help modernize them by improving how market intelligence, supplier comparisons, and negotiation insights are generated and used in decision-making.
What they're looking for
- Success in this role means helping engineering teams make faster, better: technology decisions while ensuring commercial discipline, supplier performance, and long-term value creation.
- Partner with CIO leadership and technology teams to understand platform: needs, business requirements, and technology roadmaps.
- Develop sourcing strategies across enterprise SaaS platforms, enterprise: applications, data platforms, security technologies, and workplace systems.
- Lead complex sourcing events including supplier discovery, RFPs, negotiations, and contract execution.
