Airbnb|San Francisco, CA, United Statesonsite
Product Manager, Trip Quality Merchandising and AI
Posted March 20, 2026
<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Community You Will Join:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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 intuition with 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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Difference You Will Make:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Airbnb is seeking an experienced product leader to own the guest-facing quality merchandising experience. You will join the team focused on trip quality, building features that close the gap between guest expectations and actual trip experiences. This team's work touches every single booking decision on a platform that facilitates hundreds of millions of trips and an incredibly diverse global inventory. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You will ship and iterate on AI-powered features that help guests make more confident booking decisions — synthesizing signals from reviews, ratings, and listing data into quality information that is clear, personalized, and trustworthy. This means working hands-on with Data Science to evaluate model performance and translate outputs into better product decisions, not just defining requirements and handing them off.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This role requires close partnership with the Policy, Privacy, and Legal teams — particularly on review integrity, AI-generated content, and trust-related guest-facing features. You will work especially closely with the quality data platform team to generate and consume accurate quality signals that foster a trusted marketplace, as well as across Design, Engineering, and Data Science to ship and iterate at scale. This is a critical role that spans the end-to-end guest experience around listing quality information, and the features you build will be part of the experience for every guest who considers booking on Airbnb.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>A Typical Day: </strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Develop and execute the product roadmap for Trip Quality Merchandising and AI, with a focus on shipping AI-powered features that improve how guests evaluate listing quality.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define product requirements for generative AI features (e.g. listing summaries, quality highlights) and ML ranking systems, including evaluation criteria, guardrails, and iteration plans.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with Data Science to assess model performance — understanding where outputs are accurate and trustworthy, and where they fall short — and translate those assessments into concrete product improvements.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Craft the product narrative that inspires teams, leadership, and the company and builds alignment on the quality merchandising strategy.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with design, engineering, and customer support to deliver features that improve both guest and host experiences. Collaborate closely with our Policy, Privacy, and Legal teams on topics that are essential to making Airbnb one of the most trusted marketplaces in the world.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build AI-powered features that improve how guests evaluate listing quality, partnering with Data Science to evaluate model performance and translate outputs into product decisions.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build deep expertise in how guests evaluate listing quality through user research, marketplace data, and competitive analysis; use those insights to define and prioritize features that will lead to improved user experiences and a better Airbnb service.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Make prioritization decisions that balance guest experience, platform integrity, and host impact. Efficiently execute to ship updates and deliver impact for our business and customers.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Your Expertise:</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10+ years of product management experience.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on track record shipping AI/ML-powered features on consumer products — including generative AI features (LLM-based summarization, content generation) and ML ranking or personalization systems — with direct involvement in defining evaluation criteria and improving model outputs.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Expert ability to use data and business analysis to inform product strategy and drive decisions.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Domain familiarity with marketplace trust/quality, search/ranking/relevance, or content/feedback systems is strongly preferred.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience creating product messaging and delivering to customers.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Demonstrated track record of building cross-functional and executive leadership alignment. </span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience working on consumer products with marketplace dynamics on a global scale.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Entrepreneurial track record of taking an idea to reality.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Excited to lead cross-functional execution, from strategy through shipped product in a fast-paced environment.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Desire to do individual contributor product management work.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Excellent written and verbal communication; adept at simplifying complex AI/ML and data concepts for diverse audiences.</span></li>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Your Location:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant will need to be based in San Francisco, California 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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We strive to also 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: </span><a style="color: #000000;" href="mailto:reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How We'll Take Care of You:</span></strong></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 16px;">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. </span></p></div><div class="title">Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$224,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$280,000 USD</span></div></div></div>