Lead Product Manager, Social Features & Connections

Airbnb, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a Product Marketing Manager for Social Features to lead a new pod turning guest connections into reasons to travel with Airbnb. You will own features from brief to launch, define scope with engineering and design, and rely on experiments to guide what to scale.

You will partner with the social graph, Trips, Search, and Checkout teams to ship across surfaces while prioritizing trust and privacy and a data-driven approach to outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product marketing or product management with a track record of moving a core consumer metric through features you led to launch.
• Experience building social or network-driven products: sharing, invites, feeds, profiles, group features, or connection-based recommendations.
• Deeply AI-native in how you work: you use AI tools every day for prototyping, research, specs, and analysis.
• Obsessed with the details: you go deep with engineering and design to ensure impactful releases.
• Strong execution and a bias for action: you lead cross-functional launches on time and at high quality.
• Fluent in experiment results: you define tests and translate results into product decisions.
• Strong judgment of consumer product quality and what makes an experience fun and shareable.
• Comfort in a fast-moving area: you set roadmaps and operating rhythms.
• Ability to earn trust across engineering, design, and data science without formal authority.
• Clear, structured writer and communicator translating strategy into actionable guidance.

Responsibilities

• Write crisp briefs grounded in guest need and success definitions.
• Prototype with AI first, test with guests, and align the team quickly.
• Drive engineering, design, data science, and program management from concept to launch.
• Review builds and test flows, chasing edge cases to ensure guest impact.
• Shape how connections are integrated across the guest journey from search to Trips.
• Build shareable moments like a travel map to grow the social graph.
• Partner with social graph and other pods to ship across surfaces.
• Design for trust and privacy from the start.
• Present strategy and results in leadership reviews with concise narratives.

Skills

8+ years PM/PMM

Social/network products

AI-native prototyping

Attention to detail

Execution & bias for action

Experiment-driven decisions

Product quality judgment

Cross-functional leadership

Clear writing & communication

Job description

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a Product Marketing Manager for Social Features to lead a new pod turning guest connections into reasons to travel with Airbnb. You will own features from brief to launch, define scope with engineering and design, and rely on experiments to guide what to scale.

You will partner with the social graph, Trips, Search, and Checkout teams to ship across surfaces while prioritizing trust and privacy and a data-driven approach to outcomes.