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:
Listings and Quality team ensures that our marketplace has accurate, high-quality supply to power trusted experiences for Guests and Hosts. As the leader in the Listings Product team, you will define, build, and shape the future of Airbnb’s Listings product flows, such as intelligent supply onboarding and management. The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, legal, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We work closely with other engineering teams to ensure we build systems that are performant and configurable with architecture that's scalable and robust.
The Difference You Will Make:
- Define and execute strategy to dramatically improve the Host Listing Management experience through AI and data capabilities.
- Set priorities, balance speed and quality, and ensure the engineering team executes against an ambitious roadmap.
- Partner with Product, Design, and ML/Data teams to take high-impact initiatives from concept to production.
- Drive the technical foundation and ensure that we’re maintainable and extensible software.
- Examples of initiatives include features to improve listing accuracy and completeness so guests can book with greater confidence, encouraging hosts to provide richer merchandising content, and transforming our tech stack to enable flexible and dynamic listing management tools.
A Typical Day:
- Lead and mentor a diverse team of ~8+ engineers and technical leads across mobile native, web frontend, and backend services.
- This role is highly cross functional so you will partner with senior leadership in Engineering, Product, and Design and across our Business to align stakeholders, define multi-year roadmaps, set and execute on iterative milestones.
- Collaborate closely with key engineering teams, including Listings Foundation, Calendar, Pricing, Guest Experience, Trust, Infrastructure, and Customer Service Platform.
- Coaching and developing team members, helping them grow their careers, technical expertise,