Recruiting Project Manager, Contract

Airbnb is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support  Recruiting initiatives  at Airbnb. This role sits within our Recruiting PMO team, and will be a liaison between Recruiting Ops, Recruiting leaders, Talent Partners (HRBPs), and product teams and other cross-functional partners at Airbnb. As part of project/program ownership, you will focus on the larger business picture (i.e., candidate  experience or particular problem/process), understand relevant business requirements/goals and drive the right outcomes. This is a 7 month contract role. 

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end delivery of recruiting projects  and process improvements, from discovery and design through rollout and change management
• Manage multiple concurrent initiatives (e.g., interviewer onboarding, training, process audits) with clear timelines, milestones, and success metrics
• Identify risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs; proactively surface and resolve blockers
• Use data and stakeholder feedback to recommend and implement improvements that enhance speed, quality, and candidate experience
• Document and standardize processes to support global scale and operational clarity
• Act as a central point of coordination across Recruiting, Talent Ops, Legal, and Hiring Managers
• Create clear communications, change plans, and documentation to drive understanding and adoption
• Facilitate working sessions, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure alignment and continuous improvement
• Define success metrics for recruiting programs (e.g., interviewer readiness, training completion, quality signals)
• Track progress and outcomes; share insights and recommendations with recruiting leadership
• Sample projects our team has worked on include:
• • Design and maintain scalable interviewer onboarding programs, including training content, expectations, and certification requirements
  • Establish clear interviewer standards and best practices to drive consistency, fairness, and quality in hiring decisions
  • Partner with Recruiting Enablement to evolve training materials based on feedback, data, and business needs
  • Evaluate existing recruiting and interviewing processes to identify inefficiencies, gaps, or compliance risks

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of project/program management experience (in a Recruiting Team preferably)
• 9+ years of total work experience
• Excellent analytical, organizational and project management skills; strong interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills also a must
• Ability to be flexible, adaptable and solutions-oriented in the face of problems
• Passion for trying, learning, improving, and sharing best practices
• Proactive team member with excellent attention to detail and follow through
• Ability to balance competing priorities in a fast-paced environment,
• Strong sense of urgency to drive projects to completion
• Background in Recruiting or Human Resources is a plus
• Familiarity with Greenhouse is a plus

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list  If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states 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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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.

Client-provided location(s): Gunnison, CO

Job ID: 7576948

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-02-03T18:32:04