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Senior Host Communications Strategy Lead

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senior full-time $196,000-$245,000 USD San Francisco

First indexed 8 Oct 2026

Description

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join: Airbnb's mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. We are building an end-to-end travel platform that supports every part of a trip, grounded in trust, belonging, and human connection. Hosts are at the center of everything we do. Airbnb creates opportunities for millions of hosts to build businesses, form relationships, and positively impact their communities.

The Difference You Will Make: The ideal candidate will have a blend of strategic communications and marketing backgrounds, as well as experience collaborating with both technical and creative teams. We are looking for a fantastic writer with a sharp eye for messaging and positioning, as well as a deep understanding of email marketing, social, in-product channels. They are fluent with AI tools and use them daily to move faster, whether drafting, iterating on a brief/creative, or analyzing sentiment and performance.

A Typical Day:

  • Own positioning and launch communications plans for new features, products and corporate/community updates.
  • Establish engagement and business goals for key announcements and campaigns. Work with analysts and data scientists to develop KPI and measurement frameworks.
  • Develop campaigns, draft messaging frameworks and positioning decks, and oversee communications execution.
  • Identify key audiences and segments to focus on, and build plans that support these goals.
  • Work in partnership with owned one-way and two-way channel owners to define editorial approach and messaging.
  • Develop proactive and reactive communications plans.
  • Work with channel owners to report out on key reach and engagement metrics.
  • Champion the community and user in all decisions.
  • Oversee creative collaboration between product design, content strategy, community and marketing teams.

Your Expertise:

  • 12+ years experience in marketing or communications, at a world class tech company or startup.
  • Best-in-class verbal and written communicator.
  • Ability to translate complicated product features and complex community policies into clear, compelling narratives.
  • Writing samples and/or a portfolio of work to share.
  • Ability to lead and drive initiatives across a matrixed organization, solve problems and influence cross-functional teams.
  • Experience managing through cross functional teams.
  • Versed in product strategy, design and development principles and processes.
  • Managed creative agencies and led creative production.
  • Conducted, synthesized and applied user insights, research and testing to marketing strategy.

How We'll Take Care of You: The base pay range is $196,000-$245,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/airbnb/jobs/8258743