Staff Platform Manager, Payments Regional Growth

at Airbnb

📍 Brazil
📍 Mexico

BRL 424,000-530,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

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Details

Airbnb is hiring a product leader to own the regional payments portfolio across Brazil, Mexico, and the broader Latin American region. The role focuses on payments growth, checkout optimization, local payment methods, regulatory requirements, and platform execution across a global marketplace supporting multiple countries, currencies, payment providers, and banks.

Responsibilities

Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for regional payments across Brazil, Mexico, and the broader region.
Prioritize regulatory, growth, and platform initiatives.
Optimize checkout and conversion by reducing booking friction, improving regional checkout funnels, and increasing authorization, approval, and payment-success rates.
Expand local payment methods and installment or affordability options.
Drive the full product lifecycle, including discovery, PRDs, launches, ramp, and iteration.
Use experiments and A/B tests to validate product impact.
Define requirements for processor and payment-method integrations in partnership with Partnerships and Engineering.
Lead regulatory and compliance workstreams with Legal, Tax, Compliance, and Finance.
Define and track KPIs covering conversion, cost, reliability, and revenue.
Monitor regulatory changes, competitor activity, and emerging payment rails, translating findings into the roadmap.
Partner with Engineering, Design, Analytics, Data Science, Finance, Compliance, Legal, Partnerships, and Country teams without direct authority.

Requirements

10+ years of product management experience, with a strong track record building and scaling payments or financial products.
Experience owning product strategy, roadmaps, and execution.
Deep understanding of the payments stack and money movement in marketplace environments, including pay-ins, payouts, and flows of funds.
Experience improving checkout experiences and funnel conversion.
Hands-on knowledge of authorization and settlement, processors and gateways, acquirers, card-scheme rules, 3DS/SCA, tokenization or vaulting, and reconciliation.
Experience with local payment methods and affordability products such as wallets, bank transfers, BNPL, and installments.
Familiarity with the LATAM payments ecosystem, including Pix, SPEI, regional wallets, and installment practices such as parcelamento and meses sin intereses.
Familiarity with local regulatory frameworks, including the Central Bank of Brazil and SAT Mexico.
Data-driven approach, including defining KPIs, running experiments, and using analytics to guide decisions.
Technical acumen and the ability to explain complex concepts simply while partnering with engineering teams.
Strong product thinking and user empathy.
English required; Portuguese and/or Spanish strongly preferred.

Compensation

The Brazil monthly base pay range is R$35,333.33–R$44,166.67 BRL. The role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.