Product Manager, Incubations

Airbnb; New York (NY); On-site; USD 232,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Employee Travel Credits

Health benefits

Job summary

Airbnb seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead incubation initiatives, translating bold ideas into MVPs and scalable products for guests and hosts. You will work with cross-functional teams across engineering, design, partnerships, and data science to ship fast and learn rapidly.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, narrative development with marketing, and hands-on contribution in a scrappy environment while exploring AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of consumer product management experience.
• Experience taking 0→1 ideas through incubation, piloting, and graduation to scaled products.
• Strong business acumen to size opportunities and test hypotheses.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and structuring new problems into roadmaps.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent streams with tight timelines.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration across business, partnerships, eng, design and data science.
• Experience developing product narratives with marketing to bring offerings to market.
• Hands-on contributor in scrappy environments.
• Curious about incorporating AI tools into product workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for multiple incubation tracks.
• Translate ideas into clear MVP scopes using configurable platform components.
• Design and run pilots with defined OKRs and data-driven learnings.
• Build relationships with business development, partnerships, and external partners.
• Craft compelling product narratives for leadership and launch communications.
• Develop a prioritization framework balancing incubation with core product needs.
• Foster open communication and curiosity within a fast-moving team.
• Ship features, learn, and iterate with high throughput.

Skills

Product management

Incubation experience

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in product workflows

Ambiguity navigation

Roadmap development

Strategic thinking

Marketing collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Job description

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

Our Product Managers imagine the ideal experience for our community and work backwards, creating innovative products that delight our guests and hosts. They deeply understand the needs of our users and translate these into a strategy that combines strong product thinking and deep research. They partner with talented cross‑functional team members across engineering, design, operations, data science, and more, leading teams to execute a shared vision. They are incredibly detail‑oriented and hands‑on.

The Difference You Will Make:

The PM team at Airbnb is building an incubation machine to rapidly test and launch new business ideas that extend Airbnb beyond its core stays offering.

A Typical Day:

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for multiple incubation tracks simultaneously.
• Translate new business ideas and hypotheses into clear MVP scopes, leveraging the Guest App’s configurable platform components wherever possible to minimize engineering investment.
• Design and run pilots with clearly defined success criteria and measurable OKRs; synthesize learnings quickly and make data‑driven graduate/expand/stop recommendations.
• Build strong working relationships with business development, partnerships, and external partners to ensure new offerings integrate seamlessly into the guest experience.
• Craft compelling product narratives for new incubations — for internal leadership alignment and for external launch communications.
• Develop and maintain a prioritization framework that balances multiple concurrent incubation tracks against core product demands.
• Foster open communication and curiosity across a scrappy, fast‑moving team.
• Operate with speed and quality, shipping features, learning, and iterating with high throughput.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of consumer product management experience.
• Track record of taking 0→1 product ideas through incubation, piloting, and graduation to scaled products — at a consumer internet company, marketplace, or equivalent.
• Strong business acumen: ability to rapidly assess business viability, size opportunities, and translate loosely‑defined hypotheses into testable MVP scopes.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity; able to structure new problem spaces into actionable roadmaps with minimal process.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams with competing priorities and tight timelines.
• Excellent cross‑functional collaboration and communication skills across business, partnerships, engineering, design, and data science.
• Experience developing product narratives and working with marketing and communications to bring new offerings to market.
• Comfortable doing hands‑on individual contributor product work and mastering the details in a scrappy environment.
• Demonstrated curiosity and point of view on incorporating AI tools into the product workflow.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with marketplace or travel/hospitality products.
• Background in new business development, venture, or startup‑style teams within a larger organization.
• Familiarity with platform‑based product development (configurable components, merchandising systems, API partner integrations).
• Experience building products powered by partnerships or external API integrations.

Your Location:

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant will need to be based in San Francisco, CA to be able to conduct their work. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware And Rhode Island. This list is continuously being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively‑led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive also to provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at [e-mail]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

$232,000 — $282,000 USD