Founded in 2008, Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where people can belong through healthy travel that is local, authentic, diverse, inclusive and sustainable. Airbnb uniquely leverages technology to economically empower millions of people around the world to unlock and monetize their spaces, passions and talents to become hospitality entrepreneurs. Airbnb’s accommodation marketplace provides access to 5+ million unique places to stay in more than 81,000 cities and 191 countries. With Experiences, Airbnb offers unprecedented access to local communities and interests through 15,000 unique, handcrafted activities run by hosts across 1,000+ cities around the world. Airbnb's people-to-people platform benefits all its stakeholders, including hosts, guests, employees and the communities in which it operates. 

In order to build the world's most loved travel company, we need the world's most interesting and talented people. Are you one of them? If so, we want to talk to you!

Technical Program Manager, SEO

The SEO Technical Program Manager is someone who loves people and program management. She/He has experience with building scalable and lasting projects and delivering on timelines. She/He is a hands-on, go-getter with project execution experience.

This role will sit on the Growth & Traffic Platform (G&T) SEO team, report to the SEO Product Lead and will partner closely with the SEO cross-functional team and other teams across the company to improve Airbnb’s performance in the organic search results of search engines. 

On the SEO team, you will use your program management skills to drive the implementation of critical processes, projects and initiatives that will deliver impact for our users and business. 

About G&T 

The Growth and Traffic Platform is a newly formed with the vision to drive long term sustainable growth for the Airbnb community. We aim to do this by building best-in-class infrastructure, product, and expertise to support the growth of all Airbnb businesses in the most efficient way. 

About SEO

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a cross functional team under Growth & Traffic. Its charter is to help people find our products when using search engines. The team solves foundational and complex SEO problems, and develops products that provide users and search engine bots with a magical experience. The team also creates extensible platform products and provides strategic and technical leadership to drive SEO impact across all of Airbnb business units. 

Responsibilities

• Define and execute on SEO strategy and roadmap, including leveraging internal and external resources, managing dependencies and deadlines.
• Assist in defining SEO project goals, key results and requirements that align with strategic vision. 
• Ensure on-time completion of key milestones and flag blockers or delays with key project owners or stakeholders. 
• Lead cross-functional groups to drive and deliver impact

• Monitor Airbnb’s SEO performance, conduct ad-hoc and ongoing analyses, and regularly share status and progress to the company

Qualifications 

• 3+ years of SEO experience
• Experience with consumer internet products or marketplaces
• Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment
• Experience with creating, building and maintaining projects or a program from start to finish
• Experience with building developer ecosystems, platforms and tools
• Creative problem solver. Able to identify real obstacles and viable solutions
• Outcome-oriented. Not reactionary, articulates the desired outcome and works collaboratively to create a path to achieve it
• Able to curate and build on the ideas of others in pursuit of the best solution
• Metrics orientation, ability to work with data and willingness to track results, activities and manage agencies/third party vendors. 
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with cross-functional and leadership teams. 
• Ability to quickly absorb technical SEO concepts and effectively communicate them to a non-technical audience

Benefits:

• Stock
• Competitive salaries
• Quarterly employee travel coupon
• Paid time off
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Fitness Discounts
• 401K with matching
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Apple equipment
• Commuter Subsidies
• Community Involvement (4 hours per month to give back to the community)
• Company sponsored tech talks and happy hours
• Much more...