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Experience Designer, Offline Design

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San Francisco, CA
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About the Role

At Airbnb, a Most Loved Workplace® certified employer in the Travel & Hospitality space, Belong Anywhere: Connect Through Travel, Community, and Trust.

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Community You Will Join:</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The Offline Design team plays a pivotal role in designing Airbnb products offered to guests around the world. Our teammates deeply understand the needs of our guests and hosts, and continuously innovate to create world-class products. This includes a strong ability to partner with talented cross-functional team members across product marketing, business, operations, supply, and legal—to execute a shared vision and achieve ambitious goals. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Difference You Will Make:</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As the Experience Designer on the Offline Design team, you will be responsible for articulating what makes a great experience for Airbnb travelers. The role will have a focus on applying deep experience design expertise and an end-to-end customer perspective to define how to ensure quality at scale. Your ability to prototype new formats leveraging technology to streamline processes, improve scalability, and unlock new ways of working to enable the Supply and Production teams to scale the product vision effectively. This role will impact multiple products at Airbnb.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>A Typical Day: </strong></span></p>

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<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Create playbooks: </strong>Test products while using research and your expertise to define best practices for various formats to uphold quality at scale across the product.</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Quality standards: </strong>Hold a high standard of quality, with an ability to clearly articulate criteria and reasoning.</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Prototype</strong>: Design and prototype new categories of products to test and prove out hypotheses. </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Design for various audiences</strong>: Partner with the host community team to create learning journeys for hosts based on experience design. </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Innovate with new technologies</strong>: Use Claude code to build tools to enable teams based on business insights and needs. Fluency in data platforms (datako, tableau, etc.) to investigate findings and research to back initiatives.</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Educate partners</strong>: Train internal teams on how to use the work to design impactful experiences at scale. </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Communication and alignment</strong>: Partner with cross-functional teams to test strategies that align with many teams’ goals.</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Feedback and collaboration</strong>: Share creative direction and feedback in a collaborative and supportive manner with internal cross-functional partners, and external partners. Be comfortable with ambiguity and changing business goals. Foster an environment of curiosity and openness. </span></li>

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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Your Expertise:</strong><strong><br></strong></span></p>

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<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Experience</strong>: 12+ years of creative direction, physical experience design, editorial design, and/or service design. Proven track record of working at agencies and in-house at tech companies.</span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Creative direction & taste</strong>: Strong discernment in taste and cultural sensibilities to design authentic experiences for various types of audiences. Able to articulate feedback for what ‘great’ looks like and how to reach standards needed. </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Communication & leadership</strong>: Ability to drive execution across teams in a fast-paced environment, as an individual contributor. Strong ability to communicate clearly and effectively, and be flexible to coordinate across different time zones.  </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>User-centered design</strong>: Ability to imagine and design for various audience types and needs at global scale. Create frameworks that are specific and actionable for hosts to incorporate. </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Entrepreneurial skillset</strong>: Track record of taking an idea to reality and leading teams through a dynamic environment. Self motivated, organized, pushes for quality in the details, and proactive to drive the work. </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Comfort with tech platforms</strong>: An ability to build and problem solve with Figma make, Claude code and Github. </span></li>

<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cross-cultural fluency</strong>: Life experience in different cultures globally and accounting for various differences in designing experiences. Ability to travel as needed to test the product. </span></li>

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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Your Location:</span></strong></span></p>

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant will need to be based in San Francisco, CA to be able to conduct their work.  If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:</strong></span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: </span><a style="color: #000000;" href="mailto:reasonableaccommodations@Airbnb.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reasonableaccommodations@Airbnb.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. </span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.</span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">How We'll Take Care of You:</span></strong></span></p>

<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  </span></p></div><div class="title">Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$168,000</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$210,000 USD</span></div></div></div>

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