Product Manager, Search

About the role

Airbnb is seeking an exceptional product manager to reimagine how guests search on Airbnb. Search is the front door to the entire guest experience — the moment someone tells us what they want and we have to understand it, then show them the right options in the right order. Today that means query understanding, filtering, and ranking. Tomorrow it means next-generation AI capabilities that let guests search more naturally, get better matches with less effort, and trust that Airbnb understood what they were actually looking for.

In this role, you will own the vision and roadmap for the future of search at Airbnb — pushing beyond keyword and filter-based search toward more intelligent, conversational, and personalized ways for guests to find their perfect stay. You'll partner closely with engineering, design, and data science teams to bring new AI-powered search capabilities from concept to guests. This is a high-visibility role building one of the most consequential surfaces in the guest experience, and will regularly interface with senior engineering and leadership stakeholders.

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.
• Experience working on search, discovery, ranking, or recommendation systems is strongly preferred.
• 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.

Location

Due to the nature of this position, there is a strong preference for the successful applicant to be based in San Francisco, CA. Currently, employees cannot be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware, and Rhode Island. This list is continuously updated.

Pay

Pay Range: $232,000—$282,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.