Brand Media Lead

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 a team at Airbnb that is driven through collaboration; filled with brilliant and experienced minds across product, brand, design, creative, and performance.  The beauty of this role is that the media discipline serves as a facilitator of cross-functional integration. It’s entrepreneurial, fast paced, and for the right person the right mix of exhilarating and challenging. As the Media Lead for North America (US & CA), you will manage our regional relationships with our global media agencies of record and work with the marketing and cross-functional teams based throughout the region to ensure cohesive regional media strategies focused around internally-aligned go-to-market approaches. This role requires close collaboration with teams across Airbnb, including Regional Brand Marketing, Growth Marketing, Measurement & Analytics, Consumer Insights, FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis), Data Science, Social and Corporate Communications teams. The Difference You Will Make: In this pivotal role, you’ll shape and execute global campaigns by creating locally relevant strategies that truly connect with regional audiences. You will optimize for media efficiency, creative execution, local relevance and campaign objectives. You will drive global influence and connectivity through US work, while maintaining local connection with Canadian and US marketplace and consumers to inform regionally driven initiatives and excellence.  Success in this role looks like autonomy and influence over the majority of our global efforts.  They will be a subject matter expert in brand paid media, but will communicate through the lens of storytelling and integrated strategy.  Strong but attentive partnership with media agency Create trusted internal relationships to facilitate strategy and tactics within our in-house approach. Identify tactical, process, and resource opportunities to better position brand approach. A Typical Day:  You will plan and oversee all media strategies and spend including digital, video, social, podcasts, ooh, cinema, and direct marketing initiatives. Lead media strategies to drive brand behaviors through all platforms with emphasis in leading integrated and social innovation in the areas of storytelling, branding, marketing, product, and partnerships. Drive global influence and connectivity through US work while maintaining local connection with Canadian (english + french) and US marketplace and consumers to inform regionally driven initiatives and excellence.  Lead development of global campaigns from connections strategy through campaign execution and reporting. Areas of focus include connections planning, media mix development, media planning & buying, performance measurement, budget management, online tracking, buy evaluation, and optimization. Integrate efforts across cross-functional stakeholders; including global marketing, local business needs, resourcing, and media partners.&nb