Product Manager, Social Features

Job Description:

• Lead a new social features pod that turns guests’ connections into reasons to return to Airbnb
• Own features including the travel map and sharing, group travel tools, recommendations from known people, and connections across Airbnb
• Make scope and priority decisions with engineering and design partners and own outcomes
• Take features from brief through launch and use experiment results to determine what to build next
• Increase how often guests plan, book, and share trips with people they know
• Write product narratives for leadership and guests
• Write feature briefs and requirements grounded in guest needs and success criteria
• Build AI-first working prototypes and test them with guests
• Drive execution across engineering, design, data science, and program management
• Review builds, test user flows, and resolve edge cases
• Integrate connections across search, booking, Trips, and the guest journey
• Build shareable experiences that grow Airbnb’s social graph
• Partner with related pods and teams including Trips, Search, and Checkout
• Design trust and privacy controls
• Establish goals and weekly metrics reviews
• Partner with data scientists on experiments and decide what to scale, iterate, or stop
• Present strategy and results in leadership reviews

Requirements:

• 8+ years in product marketing or product management
• Track record of moving a core consumer metric through features led to launch
• Experience building social or network-driven products
• Daily use of AI tools for prototyping, research, specifications, and analysis
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through complex launches
• Ability to define experiment learning goals, interpret growth metrics and guardrails, and make product decisions
• Strong consumer product quality judgment and understanding of engaging, useful, shareable experiences
• Comfort working in a new, fast-moving area and setting the roadmap
• Ability to earn the trust of engineering, design, and data science partners and lead without formal authority
• Clear, structured writing and communication skills
• Must be able to work Pacific Time Zone hours as needed
• Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity
• Experience at a consumer marketplace or travel company, or launching a new social product at scale (preferred)

Benefits:

• Bonus eligibility
• Equity eligibility
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits
• Remote work eligibility
• Occasional office work or attendance at offsites, as agreed with manager
• Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process