# Product Manager, Search

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $232k – $282k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, search, ranking, Recommendation Systems, artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, LLMs, semantic search, conversational interfaces, A/B Testing, Data Science, natural language processing
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Own the vision and roadmap for Airbnb’s guest search experience, advancing query understanding, ranking, personalization, and AI-powered conversational discovery. Requires 10+ years of consumer product management experience and strong collaboration with engineering, ML, design, and data science teams.

## Job Description

## 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.

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