Product Manager, Search

Airbnb was born in 2007 and has grown to over 5 million hosts worldwide. They are seeking an exceptional product manager to reimagine how guests search on Airbnb, focusing on creating intelligent and personalized search experiences through AI capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the long-term vision and roadmap for the future of search on Airbnb, including next-generation AI capabilities like natural language and conversational search, query understanding, and intelligent ranking
• Own how guests search on Airbnb end to end — from the moment they express intent to the moment they find the right option
• Partner closely with engineering, applied ML, and data science teams to design, prototype, and ship AI-powered search experiences
• Use quantitative analysis and experimentation (A/B testing) to validate that new search capabilities improve relevance, conversion, and guest satisfaction
• Translate ambiguous guest problems into clear product requirements, prioritized against business impact and technical feasibility
• Collaborate with design and research to understand how guests search, filter, and decide today — and where AI can remove friction
• Work cross-functionally with Host-side and Trust teams to ensure smarter search continues to surface the right 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
• Genuine excitement about applying modern AI and ML capabilities (LLMs, semantic search, conversational interfaces) to consumer product problems
• Strong business acumen and ability to use data, research, and experimentation to drive product strategy and decisions
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with ML/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
• A user-centered mindset — you dig into how guests actually search and where they get stuck, not just metrics dashboards
• Experience working on search, discovery, ranking, or recommendation systems is strongly preferred