Data Platform Product Lead

The Community You Will Join: 

The Supply organization plays a pivotal role in driving the company’s growth and expansion efforts worldwide. This team recruits and develops Airbnb’s global supply of high-quality Homes, Services and Experiences. With this focus on quality supply and international expansion, the team is leading the way for Airbnb’s continued growth and facilitation of millions more host and guest connections.

The Difference You Will Make:

Airbnb is seeking a Data Platform Product Lead to define and deliver the data products and systems strategy that powers our sales and operations organizations. You'll partner deeply with sales leaders, data & software engineering teams, and business stakeholders to design the next generation of data infrastructure - one that leverages AI, handles complexity at scale, and actually solves for how reps and hosts use data in their work.

A Typical Day: 

• Drive data product strategy - Partner with sales and ops leadership and data engineering to define 18+ month roadmaps for data products, tools, and platforms that power sales operations
• Pressure-test architecture - Challenge data and software engineering teams on technical decisions, prototype solutions, and ensure we're building for AI-first workflows and future scale, not just today's needs
• Translate business to technical - Convert complex sales workflows and host/rep needs into detailed technical requirements and data products that serve our teams that support our hosts
• Lead cross-functional delivery - Coordinate initiatives across many cross functional teams including Sales, Operations, Data Engineering, Analytics, and Software Engineering
• Think product in the AI era - Design data products that leverage LLMs, agents, and emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how internal and GTM teams work with data
• Handle the mess - Jump into chaotic situations (like when 3 tools break simultaneously), quickly map system dependencies, and use those moments to identify architectural gaps and strategic opportunities

Your Expertise:

• Data product design - Know how to build intelligent systems that turn data into actionable insights; design products where users can flexibly choose what they need rather than wade through everything
• Narrative generation & visualization - Translate metrics into clear, plain-language insights; understand when to use a chart vs when words tell the story better; design systems that answer "what happened, why it matters, and what to do"
• AI-powered insight products - Can architect systems that auto-generate reports, summaries, and insight packages; understand how to leverage LLMs to reason about data and create human-ready outputs
• Deep data & SQL fluency - Advanced SQL skills to validate requirements, write complex queries, and challenge engineering on architecture decisions; understand data warehouses, pipelines, and how raw data becomes useful insights
• Product thinking for how people actually work - Design for real workflows: outputs people want to share (not just tools they have to use), assets they can take into conversations (not dashboards they have to explain), systems that close the feedback loop
• Thrives in chaos - Can jump into messy situations, quickly map how things connect, and use those moments to identify what needs to be built; sees clarity in complexity
• Strategic product vision - Balance fixing today's fires with architecting tomorrow's platform; identify patterns others miss and build for scale from the start
• 10+ years in product management building data products, analytics platforms, or insight generation systems; strong 0→1 track record

Preferred:

• Advanced SQL and data modeling skills - can write complex queries, design semantic layers, and validate data architecture decisions
• Experience designing narrative-driven data products or automated insight generation systems (beyond traditional BI dashboards)
• Strong opinions on what makes insights actionable - can articulate why one visualization drives action while another gets ignored
• Understanding of how to leverage LLMs for reasoning, narrative generation, or personalization in data products
• Built products where you obsessed over the output - every word, every chart, every recommendation - and measured whether users acted on them
• Experience with modern data/analytics stacks (dbt, Looker, Tableau, or similar) and a clear POV on their strengths and limitations
• Track record iterating based on user engagement - what gets opened, shared, acted upon vs what falls flat

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: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

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