Product Manager, Search

at Airbnb

USD 232,000-282,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

Airbnb is seeking a product manager to reimagine how guests search on Airbnb. The role owns the vision and roadmap for the future of search, including query understanding, filtering, ranking, natural-language search, conversational interfaces, personalization, and other AI-powered capabilities. The product manager will work closely with engineering, applied machine learning, data science, design, research, Host-side, and Trust teams to improve search relevance, conversion, fairness, accuracy, and guest satisfaction.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the long-term vision and roadmap for the future of search on Airbnb, including natural-language and conversational search, query understanding, and intelligent ranking.
Own the end-to-end guest search experience, from expressing intent to finding the right option.
Partner with engineering, applied machine learning, and data science teams to design, prototype, and ship AI-powered search experiences.
Use quantitative analysis and experimentation, including A/B testing, to validate improvements to relevance, conversion, and guest satisfaction.
Translate ambiguous guest problems into clear product requirements prioritized by business impact and technical feasibility.
Collaborate with design and research teams to understand how guests search, filter, and make decisions, and identify opportunities for AI to reduce friction.
Work cross-functionally with Host-side and Trust teams to ensure smarter search surfaces inventory fairly and accurately.
Communicate roadmap, results, and trade-offs clearly to engineering partners and leadership.

Requirements

10+ years of consumer product management experience, with a track record of owning a product area end to end.
Experience working on search, discovery, ranking, or recommendation systems is strongly preferred.
Genuine excitement about applying modern AI and machine learning capabilities, including large language models, semantic search, and conversational interfaces, to consumer product problems.
Strong business acumen and the ability to use data, research, and experimentation to drive product strategy and decisions.
Demonstrated ability to work closely with machine learning and data science teams and understand the trade-offs of model-driven products.
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills across engineering, design, data science, and other cross-functional teams.
User-centered mindset, with a focus on understanding how guests search and where they encounter friction.
Strong preference for the successful applicant to be based in San Francisco, California.

Compensation

Base pay range: $232,000–$282,000 USD per year.
The role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Employees cannot currently be located in Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware, or Rhode Island.