Growth Marketing Lead, Metasearch & Paid Social

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · London, United Kingdom +1 · Marketing

Growth Marketing Lead for Metasearch & Paid Social at Airbnb, responsible for managing and scaling global programs, optimizing bidding strategies, and driving measurable impact through biddable media. Requires extensive experience in performance marketing, deep technical fluency in feed-based marketing, and strong analytical and collaboration skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and execute a world-class global performance marketing strategy across metasearch and display channels (programmatic, paid social, and mobile) to exceed growth goals
  2. Develop and optimize bidding strategies to maximize revenue and efficiencies through best-in-class strategies
  3. Own account management for key metasearch partners, driving outsized growth through optimized placements, CTR improvements, and new partnership initiatives
  4. Flawlessly execute against campaign components to maximize efficiency, including technical setup of programs: audience management, creative testing, budget and bidding strategies
  5. Maintain a data-driven approach through continual optimization; leverage a strong background in experiment design and evaluation to exceed aggressive growth targets.

Skills

Required

  • 9+ years of experience in Growth Marketing and/or related functions within a consumer-facing, fast-paced ecommerce company, with broad expertise in digital marketing
  • Proven track record of managing performance marketing programs at scale, including metasearch and/or programmatic/paid social, for one or more large, global consumer brands
  • Deep understanding of feed-based marketing and the technical architecture underpinning metasearch and display channels
  • Deep understanding of the technical aspects of growth marketing: marketing tech stack and data pipelines, tracking, testing, analytics, etc.
  • Excellent cross-functional collaborative mindset
  • Experience working with strong brand guidelines and an eye for high-quality creative execution.
  • Experience working with teams in different regions and a high-level understanding of regional growth opportunities.
  • Superb verbal and written communication skills
  • Exceptional project management and organization skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
  • Proven experience working with globally distributed teams and a strong understanding of regional growth dynamics.
  • Comfort operating across time zones, including availability that overlaps with US Pacific time (PST).

Nice to have

  • proficiency with writing and executing SQL queries is preferred
  • Comfort operating across time zones, including availability that overlaps with US Pacific time (PST).

What the JD emphasized

  • global expansion
  • new products and services
  • maximizing the value of our digital media investments end-to-end
  • driving outsized growth
  • world-class global performance marketing strategy
  • maximize revenue and efficiencies
  • outsized growth
  • technical setup of programs
  • continual optimization
  • exceed aggressive growth targets
  • high-quality bar for creative output
  • regional pilots
  • AI innovation space
  • 9+ years of experience
  • performance marketing programs at scale
  • large, global consumer brands
  • Deep understanding of feed-based marketing
  • technical architecture
  • technical aspects of growth marketing
  • marketing tech stack and data pipelines
  • writing and executing SQL queries
  • deep collaboration
  • high-quality creative execution
  • regional growth opportunities
  • communicating insights effectively to stakeholders and senior leadership
  • meticulous attention to detail
  • globally distributed teams
  • regional growth dynamics
  • overlaps with US Pacific time (PST)