Senior Consumer Insights Lead, Marketing & Strategic Intelligence

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.

The Community You Will Join:

You will be joining Airbnb's Consumer Insights Team.  The mission of the team is to elevate human insight to fuel smarter decisions across the business.  You'll work in a collaborative, fast-moving environment where curiosity and consumer empathy are deeply valued.  You'll report to the Head of Consumer Insights and partner closely with Marketing leadership, as well as cross-functional partners across Product, Innovation, and the broader research team.  This position is responsible for leading a team of three direct reports.

The Difference You Will Make:

In this role, you will serve as the dedicated insights partner for Airbnb's Marketing organization, with a primary focus on audience understanding, brand positioning, and measurement; leading research that sharpens how Airbnb is perceived and positioned in the market. You will also lead the Trends & Competitive Intelligence function, bringing a forward-looking view of the cultural landscape and competitive dynamics that serves not just Marketing, but the broader organization.  Success means leadership consistently relies on your insights to shape briefs, campaigns, and strategies, and that Airbnb stays ahead of where the market, culture, and competition are heading.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Partner with Marketing leadership as the go-to expert on the voice of the consumer, ensuring consumer knowledge is embedded in strategies, briefs, and priorities from the earliest stages of planning.
• Own and evolve Airbnb's brand health tracking program, revising and refining the measurement framework, monitoring brand equity trends over time, and translating findings into clear, actionable implications for brand and marketing strategy.
• Coach and support the direct report who owns Airbnb's media measurement program, ensuring their work is connected to broader brand strategy and that media investment insights translate into meaningful implications for consumer perception and positioning.
• Lead and direct the Trends & Competitive Intelligence team, setting the strategic direction, ensuring the right signals are being tracked across the cultural and competitive landscape, and bringing forward-looking implications to Marketing and the broader organization.
• Design and execute qualitative and quantitative research projects spanning focus groups, in-depth interviews, ethnographies, online communities, and surveys, balancing in-house execution with vendor-managed projects.
• Prepare and present research findings in concise, visually compelling formats for senior stakeholders, always surfacing the "so what" to inspire action and drive decisions.
• Collaborate with the broader Research Team to synthesize across workstreams, avoid silos, and identify emerging opportunities or gaps in consumer understanding.

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of consumer insights experience, with significant time spent in a marketing insights context supporting brand strategy, audience understanding, or marketing effectiveness.
• Deep expertise in brand health tracking, including owning or significantly contributing to a brand measurement framework covering equity, perception, and positioning metrics.
• Strong command of audience research and segmentation, with demonstrated ability to build rich, actionable consumer portraits that inform marketing strategy.
• Familiarity with media measurement approaches and the ability to connect campaign performance data to shifts in brand perception and consumer sentiment.
• Experience in trends and competitive intelligence, synthesizing signals from the cultural and competitive landscape into strategic implications for brand and business.
• Expertise across a wide range of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, with familiarity in advanced analytic techniques and emerging tools, including AI-powered research methods.
• Exceptional storytelling and communication skills, able to distill complex consumer data into clear, compelling narratives that influence senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience managing and developing individuals, with a track