Product Manager, Relevance and Personalization

Airbnb

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: $232,000–$282,000 / yr
Posted: 101 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $257k

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This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $178,350–$238,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $257k versus about $208k for comparable roles.

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About Airbnb

Founded in 2008 and formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc., Airbnb is a global marketplace connecting travelers with hosts who offer unique accommodations, ranging from private rooms to entire homes. It operates a massive digital platform for booking stays, experiences, and travel services worldwide.

Airbnb currently has 65 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $200,000–$240,000 across 51 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Product Manager, Relevance and Personalization

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Product Manager, Relevance and Personalization joins the Relevance & Personalization team to manage high-leverage AI systems. This role involves defining and driving the roadmap for a matching intelligence engine that integrates search ranking, recommendations, personalization, and generative AI. The manager will shape how personalization functions across the guest journey, define feedback loops for hosts, and oversee A/B experiments with rigorous metric design. Key responsibilities include translating complex technical tradeoffs into clear decisions, managing multi-turn discovery experiences, and aligning cross-functional teams on shared goals. The role requires expertise in machine learning, search, recommendations, or AI-powered products at scale. Preferred skills include experience with LLM-based products, reinforcement learning, contextual bandits, and exploration frameworks. The work focuses on solving the technical challenge of connecting guests to listings while balancing marketplace health and host success.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $223300 from 163 postings across 44 companies.

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Skills

Generative AI LLM Search Ranking Reinforcement Learning Contextual Bandits Experimentation Design

What you'll do

Define and drive the roadmap for Airbnb's relevance and personalization platform across the guest journey.
Make prioritization decisions that balance guest experience, host success, revenue, and marketplace health.
Partner with ML engineers and researchers to shape model strategy, evaluation frameworks, and experimentation design.
Align cross-functional teams on shared goals and sequencing for search, recommendation, and generative AI systems.
Design and oversee A/B experiments using rigorous metric design and long-term effect measurement.
Translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear decisions for engineering teams and concise narratives for leadership.
Synthesize user research, marketplace data, and competitive signals to refine product strategy.

What we're looking for

You must have 10+ years of product management experience.
You must have at least 3 years of experience with ML, search, recommendations, or AI-powered products at scale.
You must have a track record of owning strategy and roadmaps for technically complex systems.
You must possess strong experimentation fluency in designing A/B tests and interpreting results.
Experience working on two-sided marketplaces where you balanced supply and demand tradeoffs is required.
You must be able to communicate complex technical trade-offs clearly to both executives and engineering teams.
Preferred experience includes LLM-based products, reinforcement learning, or working with applied research teams.
The candidate should ideally be based in San Francisco, CA.