Product Manager, Search

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term vision and roadmap for Airbnb search, including natural-language and conversational search, query understanding, and intelligent ranking.
• Own the guest search experience end to end, from expressing intent through 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 A/B testing to validate improvements in 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 to understand how guests search, filter, and decide, and how AI can remove friction.
• Work cross-functionally with Host-side and Trust teams to ensure 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 with search, discovery, ranking, or recommendation systems strongly preferred.
• Excitement about applying modern AI and machine learning capabilities, including large language models, semantic search, and conversational interfaces, to consumer products.
• Strong business acumen and ability to use data, research, and experimentation to drive product strategy and decisions.
• Ability to work closely with machine learning and data science teams and understand trade-offs in model-driven products.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills across engineering, design, and data science teams.
• User-centered mindset with attention to how guests search and where they encounter friction.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base pay range: $232,000–$282,000 USD.
• May be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.