Travel and Entertainment Coordinator - Sourcing (contract)

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in more than 100, 000 cities and towns located in 220+ countries and regions across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and one-of-a-kind activities that make it possible for guests to experience the world in a more authentic, connected way.

The Acquisition Team, within the Supply team is a unique, multidisciplinary team that focuses on developing new Experiences supply for Airbnb. We ideate, prototype, and deliver new hosted Experiences that grow Airbnb’s business, develop and steward the creative vision for Host acquisition and curation initiatives, and collaborate with current and new types of Hosts to create exceptional hosted experiences that foster human connection in our shared physical world.

The Difference You Will Make:

The Supply Coordinator - Sourcing & Acquisition - supports the Supply Acquisition Leads in bringing on high-quality, in-demand experiences hosted by expert hosts. You will focus your time and efforts to supporting the research, curation, sourcing, and organization of assets needed to support the supply acquisition funnel. This workstream is responsible for ensuring the project is supported with coordinating needed information, schedules, data, communicating and supporting with vendors, reporting on status updates, and supporting presentations for the Supply Acquisition Leads.

This creative, organized and passionate individual will support teams and projects to bring new supply to the platform.

Responsibilities:

Project Coordination: Support project coordination, planning, production and execution, including the development and tracking of timelines, schedules, milestones estimates, budgets and action items across multiple inputs.

Industry Awareness: Stay up to date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in experiences via entertainment and travel industries and contribute innovative ideas to enhance project outcomes.

Source Supply - with direction from the Leads, source supply and potentially conduct early outreach for experience hosts.

Inclusivity: Foster a respectful, supportive and inclusive environment where all team members and stakeholders feel safe and empowered to do their best work.

Review Leads - Ensure vendor-sourced leads meet Supply definition and quality guidelines.

Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across team members and stakeholders - including senior leadership - providing regular project updates and proactively flagging any issues or blockers.

Support and Coordinate Meetings - Support in the program management of regular calls with vendors. Keep agendas, meeting notes, and team milestones.

Project Documentation: Create and maintain accurate project documentation, including project briefs, schedules, budgets, estimates, resource plans, and status updates.

Provide weekly Project Update - Develop and internally circulate weekly project updates tracking project goals and progress.

Support & Develop Presentations - Support team in developing visually appealing keynote presentations showcasing new supply examples, research examples, and supply funnel as needed.

Coordinate Information - Support the accurate accounting of information in data trackers, including Salesforce

Vendor Management: Liaise with external vendors and contractors, manage contracts, and oversee work to ensure timely and high-quality deliverables.

Support Training needs of vendors - Support training questions and needs of vendors to integrate into Airbnb’s data tracking systems

Attend Experiences - The best way to improve our supply is to experience it yourself. Please plan to attend a minimum of 3 experiences per month.

Experience: 6+ years in experiential production coordination, project management, program management, event creative coordination, experiential travel coordination or related fields.

Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in fields including

Skills:

Entertainment design, creative advertising and production, event production, experiential marketing, editorial travel, hospitality creative, or related disciplines

Project management skills: Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage and prioritize the coordinator and production of multiple projects and workstreams simultaneously end-to-end

Flexibility: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to rapidly changing priorities with high-level direction

Creativity and innovation: Ability to think creatively and participate in the generation of unique ideas for novel experiential entertainment and hosted travel concepts

Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to articulate and summarize complex ideas clearly and compellingly – strong presentation and public speaking skills are a plus

Technical proficiency: Familiarity with common project management and documentation tools, with the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and processes.

Belonging & Accommodations:

Airbnb is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas fosters innovation and engagement, and allows us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please connect with your talent sourcing partner.

Pay Rate Range: $38-$48/hour.

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K