Product Manager, Tickets

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · United States · Product Management

Product Manager for Airbnb's Tickets business, focusing on defining the category, shaping the product, building supply, and go-to-market strategy. Responsibilities include developing product vision, roadmap, messaging, and ensuring the quality of ticket listings. Requires extensive experience in product management/marketing, ticketing marketplaces, and scaling consumer products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and maintain a product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Airbnb Tickets.
  2. Synthesize guest, host, and partner feedback and translate it into product features and positioning.
  3. Develop the public-facing messaging and narrative for Tickets, and land the value proposition with guests, supply partners, and the media.
  4. Align product teams and cross-functional partners across marketing, communications, and PMM.
  5. Develop partnerships with attractions operators, tour providers, and live event suppliers, with a focus on both supply and demand.

Skills

Required

  • Product management
  • Product marketing
  • Roadmap development
  • Messaging and positioning
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Marketplace dynamics
  • Ticketing systems
  • API integrations
  • Data analysis
  • Cross-functional leadership

Nice to have

  • Travel industry experience
  • Events industry experience
  • Live events
  • Attractions
  • Tours

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of product management and/or product marketing experience
  • Experience creating product messaging and positioning and delivering it to customers and the media
  • Demonstrated inbound and subject matter expertise, ideally in ticketing, travel, events, or marketplace businesses
  • Background in ticketing marketplaces, including hands-on experience with operator and supply-side tools and with ticketing standard APIs and integrations (e.g., reservation and distribution systems, connectivity platforms, barcode/QR validation)
  • Requirements gathering & documentation — framed around turning ambiguous problems into clear specs that align eng, design, and partners
  • Backend ticketing data model — ticket types, fare/price classes, entitlements, and how those relationships structure inventory
  • Inventory & availability modeling — capacity, time slots, holds, and real-time availability across supply sources
  • Built and scaled global consumer products, marketplaces, or ecosystems that people love
  • Entrepreneurial track record of taking an idea to reality and leading teams through a dynamic environment
  • Experience working on consumer products that drive significant revenue