Platform Product Manager, Standards

The Community You Will Join:

• Airbnb is a vision and mission driven company. Our Product Managers embody this culture and mindset. Product Managers here imagine the ideal end state for our community (guests and hosts) first and work backwards from it, challenging all current assumptions. They champion a winning strategy and leverage metrics to ensure we are making progress against it. They partner with talented cross-functional team members (across engineering, design, data science, etc.) and lead teams to execute upon a shared vision. They are incredibly hands on and are not afraid to roll up their sleeves to get the right outcome for our community.  We are looking for leaders who want to join us in this journey to accomplish our mission of creating belonging everywhere.

The Difference You Will Make:

• As a Platform Product Manager, Standards, you will be responsible for leading the vision, strategy, and execution of products and platforms that uphold Airbnb’s community standards. You will work cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, designers, operations experts, and policy experts to ensure that Hosts and guests are educated about our policies, violations are monitored and addressed, and disputes are resolved fairly. Your work will have a significant impact on the safety and trustworthiness of our platform, directly contributing to Airbnb’s mission of creating a world where anyone can belong anywhere.

A Typical Day: 

• Creating vision and strategy that drives policy awareness, violation monitoring, and fair enforcement across the company.

• Leading a cross-functional working group of engineers, data scientists, designers, operations experts, and policy experts to ensure alignment, execution, and successful product launches.

• Maintaining product backlog and the product roadmap. Own prioritization process of product solutions based on business value and customer impact.

• Defining goals and success with clearly measurable objectives and key results. 

• Building alignment across product teams (inside and outside of Trust & Safety), and Leadership/Executive teams.

• Anticipating bottlenecks, making tradeoffs and balancing the business needs, customer needs, versus technical or operational constraints.

• Presenting product roadmap and status to the business and Airbnb leadership on an ongoing basis. Communicate concisely and influence outcomes.

• Evaluating new product opportunities and bring forward proposals (buy, build, partner solutions) for new capabilities with data and users at the forefront 

• Developing short term plans aligned with long term goals to iteratively build platform capabilities to ensure consistent policy application and enforcement across all Airbnb teams.

• Becoming the thought leader and entrepreneur that others within Airbnb look up to for knowledge, processes, and methods on building products and platforms

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years product management experience

• Outstanding written and verbal communication ability to a diverse stakeholder audience, including a global team of C-level executives, product, and technical stakeholders

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills

• Experienced in design, and hypothesis driven product development

• Entrepreneurial drive to achieve stretch goals in an innovative, fast-paced environment

• Exceptional collaboration, partnership and influencing skills with the ability to work in a global environment across multiple locations and time zones to drive consensus across teams

• More than comfortable in an ambiguous matrixed organization

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so 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 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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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.