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Salary: USD 204,000 - 255,000 / annual
Airbnb's Offline Design team is seeking a Global Initiatives Curator to lead new, first-of-their-kind initiatives that scale the Curation team's impact across the Experiences business globally. This role reports to the Director of Experience Design and partners closely with Supply Acquisition, Product Marketing, Market Management, Demand, Growth Marketing, Research, and Enterprise Operations.
In this position, you will solve complex, cross-functional problems and brief the Curation team on how to action solutions globally and at scale. Key responsibilities include:
• Store Design & Quality: Maintain the quality bar of sourced Experiences globally and unify the quality of co-designed Experiences with the Supply Acquisition team across regions.
• Market Launches & Experiences Strategy: Support new market launches with unified processes, identify supply categories based on demand and store performance, and surface strategic differentiation bets across global markets.
• Experiences Architecture & Storytelling: Define the architecture and criteria for types of Experiences, craft narratives for new supply types to leadership, and cascade strategy to internal teams.
• Scale Learnings Globally: Identify new experience opportunities to prototype based on regional observations, spot strengths in individual markets, and scale those learnings to others.
• Build with AI: Partner with Research and Enterprise Operations to build AI tools that unify the Curation team's processes and codify taste at scale.
• Curate for Moments & Channels: Partner with Product Marketing to imagine and test future curation possibilities in product, curate high-quality differentiated supply into collections for Airbnb launch moments, and advise on merchandising to maximize bookings and brand recognition.
Success looks like a unified quality bar across markets, a clear architecture for the types of Experiences offered, new markets launched with consistent processes, and AI-enabled tools that make the team's taste repeatable at scale.
REQUIREMENTS:
• 12+ years across a mix of product marketing, marketing, creative direction, and experience design at a large-scale or tech company
• 4+ years leading and briefing teams to deliver work
• Experience working on a global product and leading a global team
• Strong record of cross-functional collaboration and coordinating across time zones
• High level of taste shaped by brands known for it, and cultural fluency to adapt strategy to different audiences and markets
• Ability to break complex challenges into simple, actionable steps with a track record of building strategic frameworks and briefs
• Experience leading 0-to-1 initiatives in highly cross-functional environments with comfort navigating ambiguity
• Strong verbal and written communication with experience building presentations from ideation to execution with senior leadership
• Ability to self-organize, move fast with incomplete information, and quickly learn new AI tools and platforms
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and progressive experience
• Must be based in San Francisco, CA due to the nature of the position
