Host Communications Strategy Lead

USA (Remote)

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

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Shape and own high-impact launches and ongoing communications for features, campaigns, and community initiatives, turning complex product and policy details into clear narratives that engage key segments and measure impact.

  • Campaign and Messaging Ownership: define goals, craft positioning, and guide execution across product updates and community announcements.
  • Editorial Collaboration: align with Community Center, Resource Center, social, CX, and email channels to establish a coherent editorial approach and capture feedback for decision making.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: translate insights from analytics, product, design, and marketing into coordinated campaigns and proactive/reactive comms plans, with channel reporting and sentiment dashboards.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 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 (including writing, creative, etc).
  • 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 (Community Center, Resource Center, social, CX, email) to define editorial approach and messaging, then manage campaign-related feedback to the business to inform decision making
  • Develop proactive and reactive communications plans
  • Work with channel owners to report out on key reach and engagement metrics as well as relevant business metrics. Partner with the ops team to manage & distribute sentiment dashboards, both announcement-specific and ongoing.
  • Champion the community and user in all decisions
  • Oversee creative collaboration between product design, content strategy, community and marketing teams
  • Serve as both an individual contributor and a cross-functional leader

Requirements

  • 10+ years experience in marketing or communications, at a world class tech company or startup. Experience in platform or community-driven businesses is a plus.
  • Best-in-class verbal and written communicator. Strong writing background and editorial acumen a must.
  • Ability to translate complicated product features and complex community policies (reviews, fees, cancellation 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
  • Passion for Airbnb. Airbnb hosts are preferred.

Preferred

  • Deep understanding of email marketing, social, in-product channels, and AI.
  • Passion for Airbnb. Airbnb hosts are preferred.

Benefits

  • Our job titles may span more than one career level.
  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
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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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