Airbnb Ramps Up Its Hotel Biz With Global Job Openings
Photo Credit: A duplex deluxe room at the boutique hotel Room Mate Laura Hotel Madrid in Spain. Room Mate Hotels
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Airbnb's bid to vastly expand its hotel business will be labor intensive and a years-long effort. The job openings it is advertising are just the start.
Airbnb has said it wants to "aggressively" expand its hotel business, and Skift has found several job openings that point to a global scale: Postings include positions for managers covering the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Of around 180 open positions listed in Airbnb's careers portal, there are hotel-related jobs for manager of supply acquisition, supply tech lead (both based in the U.S.), and manager of supply acquisition, EMEA (based in Europe).
Airbnb also listed job openings for hotel senior market managers for Berlin, Barcelona, Canada, Texas, Mexico City, and Sydney.
All but one of the employees eventually hired for these jobs would work within the Airbnb hotels team, "which includes HotelTonight," the employment ads said. The supply tech lead for hotels would b
