Product Manager, Social Features

Details

Airbnb is hiring a Product Manager, Social Features to lead a new pod focused on turning guests' connections into reasons to return to Airbnb. The role covers social features such as travel maps and sharing, group travel tools, recommendations from known connections, and integrating social connections throughout the travel experience.

Responsibilities

• Write product briefs and requirements grounded in guest needs and clear success criteria.
• Build AI-assisted working prototypes to explore ideas, test them with guests, and align teams.
• Lead execution with engineering, design, data science, and program management from concept through launch and iteration.
• Review builds, test user flows, and identify edge cases.
• Integrate social connections across search, booking, Trips, and other parts of the guest journey.
• Build shareable experiences that attract new users and grow the social graph.
• Partner with the social graph, social experiences, Trips, Search, Checkout, and other teams.
• Design trust and privacy controls for sharing and connection-based features.
• Establish goals and weekly metrics reviews.
• Partner with data scientists on experiments, interpret results, and decide whether to scale, iterate, or stop initiatives.
• Present strategy, results, and tradeoffs to leadership.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in product marketing or product management.
• Track record of improving consumer metrics such as engagement, retention, sharing, or conversion through launched features.
• Experience building social or network-driven products, including sharing, invites, feeds, profiles, group features, or connection-based recommendations.
• Daily experience using AI tools for prototyping, research, specifications, and analysis.
• Strong attention to product details, data, and edge cases.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through complex launches.
• Ability to define experiments, interpret growth metrics and guardrails such as trust, privacy, and satisfaction, and make product decisions.
• Strong consumer product judgment and understanding of high-quality, useful, engaging experiences.
• Ability to establish roadmaps and operating processes in fast-moving environments.
• Ability to lead engineering, design, and data science partners without formal authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including communicating complex tradeoffs to executives.
• Experience at a consumer marketplace or travel company, or launching a new social product at scale, is preferred.

Location and Work Policy

The position is US Remote Eligible. Candidates must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity and must be able to work Pacific Time Zone hours as needed. Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites may be required.

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range is $200,000–$240,000 USD. The role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. Airbnb provides reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process and is committed to equal employment opportunity and inclusion.