Senior Manager, Experiences Acquisition, APAC

The Community you will join:

Every day Airbnb hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. Since our founding more than 5 million hosts have welcomed over 1.5 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

The Supply Experiences team is a unique multidisciplinary team responsible for partnering with our Hosts to conceptualize and develop high-quality repeatable and commercially viable experiences that are in alignment with our brand partnership with our cross-company peers we invent novel ways to foster human connection and belonging in our shared physical world.

The difference you will make:

As a Senior Manager of Experiences Acquisition you will lead a team of Sourcers across APAC and will be responsible for researching curating sourcing and acquiring high-quality in-demand experiences for the Airbnb platform. You will work cross-functionally to deliver month-over-month experience supply goals globally.

A typical day:

• Lead the Sourcing team across the APAC region
• Conduct prospect/talent outreach and qualify prospects based on established criteria
• Build relationships and develop rapport with prospects by anticipating needs and understanding unique customer environments
• Engage with prospects to ensure a smooth transition into Experiences hosting setting them up for success during the production phase
• Produce clear and compelling visual communications and presentations pitches and updates to senior leadership cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Ensure vendor-sourced leads meet Supply definition and quality guidelines.
• Partner with our Production Account Management and regional Sourcing teams to coordinate and manage sourcing acquisition and production professionals to support in the acquisition of experiences as needed.
• Establish and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with stakeholders in Product Design and others.

Your expertise:

• 12 years of overseeing creative development editorial sourcing or similar experience with 5 years managing teams in high-growth environments.
• Proven ability to scale high-performing teams driving growth while balancing entrepreneurial market-driven approaches with structured management.
• Creative curatorial eye and a knack for trendspotting. Proven sharp sense for identifying experiences that represent the current cultural pulse of a city.
• A strong track record of managing cross-functional relationships and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Consumer-centric mindset and evidence of delivering world class product/service for a renowned brand.
• Ability to direct and ensure consistently high-quality technical deliverables of a sourcing and production team including project budgets resource plans goal tracking dashboard creation and tracking and CRM database management.
• Experience with management of outside vendors to source and acquire experiential products.
• Excellent project management mentorship and interpersonal skills with a track record of inspiring diverse cross functional project teams to achieve their best work
• Strong organizational skills attention to detail and the ability to manage and prioritize the coordinator and production of multiple projects and workstreams simultaneously end-to-end
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with an ability to convey complex concepts in compelling terms to audiences at all levels and articulate creative solutions to complex challenges
• Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships of trust and collaboration across internal and external teams including a broad spectrum of creative technical and business discipline.
• Track record of working closely with senior leadership and acting as a thought partner to Directors Regional Directors and VPs to inform strategy and decision-making yielding positive outcomes.
• Travel required

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.

Required Experience:

Senior Manager