Product Manager, Incubations

Details

Airbnb is seeking an exceptional product manager to drive its incubation engine, partnering with business, partnerships, engineering, and design to take new ideas from concept to validated MVP. The role owns product work across multiple incubation tracks, designing and piloting minimum viable experiences to test key business hypotheses. The role uses a modular platform of configurable components for most incubations and partners with engineering and design for deeper integrations.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for multiple incubation tracks simultaneously.
• Translate new business ideas and hypotheses into clear MVP scopes, leveraging configurable Guest App platform components where possible to minimize engineering investment.
• Design and run pilots with defined success criteria and measurable OKRs.
• Synthesize learnings quickly and make data-driven graduate, expand, or stop recommendations.
• Build relationships with business development, partnerships, and external partners to integrate new offerings into the guest experience.
• Craft product narratives for internal leadership alignment and external launch communications.
• Develop and maintain a prioritization framework balancing concurrent incubation tracks against core product demands.
• Foster open communication and curiosity across a scrappy, fast-moving team.
• Ship features, learn, and iterate with high throughput while maintaining speed and quality.

Requirements

• 10+ years of consumer product management experience.
• Track record of taking 0-to-1 product ideas through incubation, piloting, and graduation to scaled products at a consumer internet company, marketplace, or equivalent.
• Strong business acumen, including the ability to assess business viability, size opportunities, and translate loosely defined hypotheses into testable MVP scopes.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and structure new problem spaces into actionable roadmaps with minimal process.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams with competing priorities and tight timelines.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills across business, partnerships, engineering, design, and data science.
• Experience developing product narratives and working with marketing and communications to bring new offerings to market.
• Comfortable performing hands-on individual contributor product work in a scrappy environment.
• Demonstrated curiosity and point of view on incorporating AI tools into the product workflow.

Nice to Have

• Experience with marketplace or travel and hospitality products.
• Background in new business development, venture, or startup-style teams within a larger organization.
• Familiarity with platform-based product development, including configurable components, merchandising systems, and API partner integrations.
• Experience building products powered by partnerships or external API integrations.

Location

There is a strong preference for the successful applicant to be based in San Francisco, California, or New York, New York. Employees cannot currently be located in Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware, or Rhode Island. This list is continuously updated.

Compensation

The base pay range is $232,000–$282,000 USD. The role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.