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The community you will join:
Airbnb is seeking MBA students to join the Business organization as Business Growth Interns for our 2025 Summer Intern Program from May 19, 2025 - August 8, 2025.
The Business organization at Airbnb is responsible for building the innovative products and visions we build into scalable businesses. We work across all functions at Airbnb to ensure that we are not only building the right product, but that we are making the right investments to build new businesses that complement our platform.
As we prepare to relaunch Airbnb Experiences in 2025, the Business Growth Intern will help us design new tests to help us to continue to build out both supply and demand levers, and ensure we are matching the product to the response we see in market.
Over the course of the internship, you will play a pivotal role in driving the global expansion of Airbnb's Experiences business. You will be responsible for co-developing and executing innovative strategies that align cross-functional teams, enabling rapid growth and ensuring the highest quality experiences for our guests and hosts worldwide. Your attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities will be crucial to your success in this role.
The difference you will make:
As an intern, you’ll get first-hand experience on what it is like to be a Business Lead for an emerging business at Airbnb. You’ll have the opportunity to drive:
- Operational Excellence: Leverage your analytical skills to translate data-driven insights into actionable operational plans that enhance the performance of our experiences business, and build efficiency into our systems.
- Cross-functional Alignment: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, finance, marketing, sales operations, and supply, to achieve shared objectives that deliver meaningful business results.
Effective Communication: Translate complex business considerations and scenarios into digestible pieces, to enable diverse stakeholders to collaboratively problem solve.
- Creativity: Be able to think outside the box to come up with novel ways of structuring incentives, business models, and ways of working to allow the business to be nimble and enable efficient scale.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Provide valuable guidance and support to help Experience Hosts thrive within the Airbnb marketplace.
- Innovation & Growth: Influence the business outcomes of this high-growth area, strategically planning for the next phases of expansion.
A typical day:
As an intern, you’ll be integrated into a team where you’ll contribute to challenging projects. Your manager, team, and our incredible employee community will strive to be superhosts to you during the summer. We provide the support, mentorship, fun, and real world experience needed to accelerate your learning and make a real impact on our product, as Airbnb revolutionizes connection, belonging, and travel. You can expect to:
- Collaborate with multiple team members to achieve project milestones
- Communicate with stakeholders across different teams to provide project updates
- Seek and provide feedback throughout the internship
- Actively participate in and contribute to the Business team and broader Airbnb community
Your expertise:
This opportunity is for first-year, MBA students (graduating Spring 2026) enrolled full-time at a nationally-accredited business school in the United States with the following background:
- 3-5 years of professional experience in corporate development, management consulting, business operations, private equity, investment banking, financial planning and analysis, or equivalent
- Strong organizational skills and process-oriented with the ability to define and execute projects with limited guidance and unclear scope
- Experience forming strong working relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders within and outside of the Business organization
- Expertise in driving collaboration across diverse teams, fostering transparency, accountability, and a unified vision
- Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively through both written and verbal formats up to the executive level (e.g. Chief Business Officer, VP of Business, etc.)
- Strong quantitative skills and ability to analyze complex data to distill insights and provide business recommendations
- Demonstrated interest in high growth, technology, and/or hospitality companies
- Must be located in New York or Seattle for the internship - relocation not provided
- Work authorization for employment in the United States is required (CPT/OPT with 2-year STEM extension is accepted)
Preferred but not required:
- Ability to conduct in-depth industry research and due diligence
Your location:
Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant will need to be based in New York City or Seattle to be able to conduct their work. Currently, 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 being updated, 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.
How to apply:
In addition to your resume, please submit a Cover Letter that answers the following questions:
- Which Airbnb Core Value most resonates with you and why?
- What do you hope to gain from this internship and how does it align with your immediate and/or long term career goals?
- Select one of the experiences/projects listed on your resume and expand on how it makes you a strong candidate for the Business Growth Intern role?
Deadline to apply: Friday, February 21 at 11:59 pm PST
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.
How we’ll take care of you:
Our job titles may span more than one career or degree level. This role may also be eligible for benefits and Employee Travel Credits.
Currency: USD Pay rate: $48.00 per hour
Offices: New York, United States, Seattle, United States