Manager, Key Accounts - Hotels

The Airbnb Hotels team is a fast-growing group leading Airbnb's expansion into the hotel sector. As Manager, Key Accounts, you will build and lead a brand new, globally distributed team of Enterprise Account Managers. You will win and onboard high-value, above-property hotel groups with hundreds of hotels across multiple continents.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a distributed team of Enterprise Account Managers, supporting them on partner management and new business development for supply acquisition
• Own the team's quarterly revenue, supply acquisition and OKR targets, and ensure they are met and exceeded
• Take partners from first conversation through negotiation, signed deal and onboarding
• Develop and execute the Key Accounts playbook in line with global strategy, working closely with Hotel functional teams across regions
• Manage and grow relationships with multi-national hotel groups, acting as an escalation option for your team where needed
• Build the operational rhythm for the team: establish and track KPIs, analyse growth and key metrics to identify trends, surface new business opportunities, and resolve business challenges with urgency
• Support the Hotels field team in achieving their goals through well-designed field-level action plans
• Work closely with Product, Technical Support, Connectivity, RevOps and Hotels Cross-Functional Leadership to drive feature adoption and business performance
• Represent Airbnb at industry and partner events, and organise internal partner events
• Hold regular team meetings, 1:1s, and performance and development reviews
• Organise team business gatherings, quarterly kick-offs and team-building events

Requirements:

• 12+ years of professional experience and at least 8+ years in sales or account management roles in travel, hospitality or e-commerce
• 6+ years of experience managing and leading high-performing teams, with a proven track record of meeting and exceeding goals
• Experience leading a globally distributed team and driving solutions to improve supply acquisition and revenue goals, ideally across international markets
• Established relationships with, or deep knowledge of, major hotel groups across the global hospitality landscape
• Entrepreneurial mindset developed from experience having launched companies, teams or significant initiatives where resources, processes and capabilities had to be created, not handed to you or followed
• Proven track record of preparing and executing complex negotiations with high-value partner organisations
• Highly motivated team builder with the ability to coach and mentor account managers
• Ability to develop a strategy, communicate it clearly, and secure buy-in and support to execute against quarterly goals
• Strong analytical skills to identify opportunities, operationalise execution with regional teams, and drive business results
• Ability to influence senior executives, both within regional Airbnb leadership and within partner leadership teams
• Ability to work within a matrix, solve problems, and influence cross-functional and cross-regional teams, with strong stakeholder management across Marketing, Legal, FP&A, Payments, Product, regional field teams, and Enterprise and Connectivity teams
• Fluency in English required
• Willingness to travel globally up to 60% of the time as needed to meet team members and engage with partners and customers at industry events

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in the hospitality technology space, including familiarity with OTAs and hotel distribution
• Experience developing and driving channel sales and marketing initiatives with global partners
• Proficiency with tools such as CRM tools (Salesforce), project management tools (Asana, Airtable), and business intelligence tools (Tableau, Looker, Claude)
• French or another major European language