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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 Marketing Lead, Canada will report to the Senior Marketing Lead, Americas. They will partner with them to develop strategic plans and execute, implement, and track marketing programs to drive profitable growth for the region. They will also act as a thought partner, sounding board, and consultant to the Senior Marketing Lead, Americas regarding regional business, marketing planning, and operations by tapping into their deep understanding of the business, consumer and market.
With strategic, creative, operational and emotional effectiveness, this person will define business challenges and strategies to drive growth, nurture a high-performing in-house marketing team, manage agency partners, and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including regional business leadership, PR, media, product, performance marketing and customer experience, to deliver actionable, locally relevant, growth-oriented marketing plans that realize the business and brand ambitions.
Responsibilities:
- Develop growth plans for current and prospective users in each market; collaborate across functions to create an integrated roadmap, budgeting, and measurement plans that deliver on the strategy.
- Partner with the Airbnb global campaign team, internal creative and other external agency partners, ensuring optimal resourcing, timely briefings, contracts, payments and a deep understanding of the brand and business opportunities, challenges and plan.
- In partnership with other marketing stakeholders, develop and deliver the marketing strategy for Canada, balancing alignment with global strategy and regional opportunities.
- Be the relentless advocate for localization across Canada; ensure all marketing activities feel local and personal; articulate market nuances for teams less familiar with the region.
- End to end execution and monitoring across all global and local marketing efforts and campaign activity.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years in a marketing role, preferably with experience at a fast paced startup or technology company
- Experience working across Canada and ideally the Americas
- Creative and analytical thinker with proven ability to champion world class creative marketing programs that deliver results
- An integrated marketing mindset with experience in amplifying campaigns across paid, owned and earned channels
- Solid business acumen to understand key business and consumer levers that unlock growth
- Experience managing agencies and large, multinational teams internally
- Solid knowledge of finance and accounting; ability to manage budgets including forecasting, actualizing and accruing
- Willingness to regularly travel internationally
- Record of success in leading teams, measurement of ROI, and accountability for results
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills; able to articulate a vision, strategy and idea clearly and succinctly
- The ability to work at both strategic and tactical levels
- Fluent in English (written and verbal)
- Appreciation for design and a passion for Airbnb
Your Location:
Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant will need to be based in Canada to be able to conduct their work. Currently, employees can be located in: British Colombia, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, or Saskatchewan. This list is continuously being updated, please check back with us if the provinces you live in is on the list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what provinces you are eligible to work from.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
