Growth Marketing Lead, Metasearch & Paid Social

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

Airbnb is seeking a Growth Marketing Lead for Metasearch & Paid Social in London or Paris. This role will manage and scale metasearch programs globally, develop paid social strategies, and optimize bidding. The ideal candidate has 9+ years of experience in performance marketing, deep understanding of feed-based marketing and technical aspects of growth marketing, and strong analytical and project management 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
  • A 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.
  • Excel (functions, pivots, 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
  • 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

  • writing and executing SQL queries

What the JD emphasized

  • critical to driving growth
  • deep technical fluency
  • track record of driving measurable impact
  • superb attention to detail
  • strong analytical foundation
  • maximize the value of our digital media investments end-to-end
  • exceed aggressive growth targets
  • 9+ years of experience
  • proven track record of managing performance marketing programs at scale
  • Deep understanding of feed-based marketing and the technical architecture underpinning metasearch and display channels
  • Deep understanding of the technical aspects of growth marketing
  • extremely comfortable with Excel
  • proficiency with writing and executing SQL queries is preferred
  • Excellent cross-functional collaborative mindset
  • Superb verbal and written communication skills
  • high degree of comfort interpreting results and communicating insights effectively to stakeholders and senior leadership
  • Exceptional project management and organization skills
  • meticulous attention to detail