Senior Product Manager — AI-Powered Search & Discovery

airbnb, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a senior Product Manager to own the future of search for guests and hosts.

You will shape the vision, partner with engineering, design, and data science, and drive AI-powered improvements across query understanding, ranking, and personalization. This high-visibility role requires 10+ years in consumer product management, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to translate user needs into concrete roadmaps that balance business impact with technical

Qualifications

• 10+ years of consumer product management experience.
• Experience working on search, discovery, ranking, or recommendation systems is strongly preferred.
• Genuine excitement about applying modern AI and ML capabilities 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 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.

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 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 surfaces the right inventory fairly and accurately.
• Communicate roadmap, results, and trade-offs clearly to engineering partners and leadership.

Skills

Product management

Search systems

AI/ML

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

User-centered design

Job description

Airbnb, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a senior Product Manager to own the future of search for guests and hosts.

You will shape the vision, partner with engineering, design, and data science, and drive AI-powered improvements across query understanding, ranking, and personalization. This high-visibility role requires 10+ years in consumer product management, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to translate user needs into concrete roadmaps that balance business impact with technical