Growth Marketing Lead, Display

USA (Remote)

$160K/yr – $200K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive a global Growth Marketing role focused on paid social, AI-enabled optimization, and cross-functional collaboration to scale Airbnb Experiences.

  • Own global paid social strategy and end-to-end channel execution.
  • Must-have: 10+ years in growth marketing with deep paid social and full-funnel campaigns.
  • Standout: AI-driven ad-tech experience and cross-functional influence across Product, Data Science, and Creative.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive Full-Funnel Strategy: Develop and execute a world-class global paid social and digital strategy, bridging upper-funnel brand engagement with lower-funnel performance to exceed growth goals for Airbnb Experiences and Services.
  • Leverage Cutting-Edge Tech & AI: Stay at the forefront of AI and ad technologies. Continuously evaluate, test, and integrate new AI-driven tools, bidding algorithms, and ad best practices to maximize campaign efficiency and scale.
  • Execute Data-Driven Campaigns: Flawlessly execute highly technical, growth-focused campaigns, managing complex audience segmentation, dynamic creative testing, and sophisticated budget/bidding strategies.
  • Influence & Align Stakeholders: Act as a strategic partner and deeply influence key stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Brand, and Creative to set and exceed aggressive growth targets.
  • Optimize & Experiment: Maintain a rigorously analytical approach through continual optimization; utilize a strong background in experiment design (A/B and multivariate testing) and evaluation to exceed company goals.
  • Collaborate on MarTech Innovation: Partner with technical and engineering teams to develop innovative features that optimize global media planning, including integrating with product teams to enhance merchandising capabilities.
  • Own the channel end-to-end, managing tracking, measurement, attribution, optimization, and automation across both web and apps.
  • Champion Creative Excellence: Lead end-to-end creative brief development and execution, collaborating closely with program management to ensure high-quality, high-performing creative assets.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant growth marketing experience, with deep expertise in Paid Social (Meta, TikTok, etc.) and managing complex, full-funnel campaigns. Experience in travel, retail, or scaling services/experiences is a huge plus.
  • Highly Technical & Analytical: A data-savvy marketer with a strong knowledge of SQL, Excel (advanced functions), Facebook Ads Manager (or FMP), Google Ads, and modern attribution modeling.
  • AI & Ad-Tech Pioneer: Deep understanding of the modern ad-tech ecosystem and a proven track record of leveraging AI tools and machine learning for campaign optimization, predictive modeling, and creative scaling.
  • Masterful Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to clearly articulate business impact, influence senior leadership, and build alignment across both technical and non-technical internal teams.
  • Data-Driven Growth Mindset: Proven results running high-volume, highly technical growth campaigns with a deep understanding of tracking, tooling, and rigorous experiment design and implementation.
  • Project Management Pro: Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple complex, cross-functional projects simultaneously.
  • Experience working in global teams and collaborating effectively across multiple geographies and time zones.
  • Experience working with strict brand guidelines and maintaining a high bar for creative quality while driving performance.

Preferred

  • Experience hosting on the site or participating in Airbnb Experiences is a huge plus.
  • Experience in travel, retail, or scaling services/experiences is a huge plus.

Benefits

  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
  • Disability inclusive application and interview process.
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Airbnb

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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, experiences and services that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

Founded in 2007
San Francisco, California, USA
64K employees (7,318 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
91% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
85M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
30.8%
Direct
65.5%
Referral
2.6%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~64.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,349 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
15.5 years
Median Tenure
4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
7

Funding

Total Funding
$6.4B
Last Raise
$1B
Debt Financing, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Apr 2020
    Debt Financing • $1B
  • Apr 2020
    Private Equity • $1B
  • Dec 2019
    Secondary Market • $25M

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