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10 Airbnb product leaders
These ten product leaders hold or have held head-of-product and director-level product roles at Airbnb. A reader can learn how Airbnb organizes product work in areas such as payments, trust and safety, data, growth and policy, and how its product teams set priorities.
Professionals to explore
01—10Abby Kiefer
LinkedInExperience: Director of Policy Products · Airbnb
Director of Policy Products at Airbnb since March 2023, leading a team that builds AI-driven and scalable tools; the profile describes Airbnb as operating in one of the most complex regulatory environments in tech, governed at the local, state, national and regional levels. At Airbnb Abby Kiefer was also Policy & Product Development Lead (2021–2023) and Senior Manager Policy Products (2019–2021).
Alex Hui
LinkedInExperience: Head of Consumer Product, Real Estate Marketplace & Host Growth · Airbnb
Head of Consumer Product, Real Estate Marketplace & Host Growth at Airbnb since January 2026, leading a cross-functional team of product, engineering, design, marketing, sales, partnerships and analytics. Alex Hui was Product Lead, Real Estate Marketplace & Host Growth at Airbnb (2025–2026) and Sr. Manager, Product Management, Shopping & Financing Experience at Zillow (2023–2025).
Cory Gaines
LinkedInExperience: Head of Platform Product Mgt · Airbnb
Head of Platform Product Mgt at Airbnb since April 2025, evolving the Airbnb payment platform to drive growth in home stays, experiences and services. The profile also lists Chief Product Officer at Blackhawk Network (2021–2024), Chief Product Officer at Lively, Inc. (2019–2021) and SVP Head of Product, Network Solutions at Change Healthcare (2017–2019).
Diya Banerji Parial
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product Identity, Trust and Safety · Airbnb
Head of Product Identity, Trust and Safety at Airbnb since January 2026, leading a team of more than 25 product managers responsible for Airbnb's core identity, safety, integrity and trust platforms. At Airbnb Diya Banerji Parial was also Director of Product, Trust and Safety (2023–2026) and Director of Product, Payments Risk and Compliance (2019–2023), and was Director of Product at PayPal (2016–2019).
Dror Engel
LinkedInExperience: Head of Products - AI Data and Growth Platforms · Airbnb
Head of Products - AI Data and Growth Platforms at Airbnb since January 2025; the profile describes the Growth Platform as deeply integrated with the Airbnb product to enable differentiated customer engagement. Other roles include Director of Product Management - Head of Data Products at eBay (2021–2024) and Head of Product - Data (Product Lead) at eBay (2020–2022).
Lara Mossler
LinkedInExperience: Head of Platforms Product, Security · Airbnb
Head of Platforms Product, Security at Airbnb since November 2022, where the profile says Lara Mossler built the company's authorization and permissions management platform, which handles self-service access requests, approvals and compliance workflows. Other roles include Product Lead, User Trust (Privacy Eng, Privacy Products, Security) at Stripe (2021–2022).
Liz Walker
LinkedInExperience: Director of Product, Community & Profile · Airbnb
Director of Product, Community & Profile at Airbnb since January 2023. At Airbnb Liz Walker was also Director of Product, Trust & Safety (2020–2023) and Product Lead, Support Products (2017–2020); the profile cites nearly 20 years of experience in product management and marketing.
Paul Janzer
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, Transportation · Airbnb
Former Head of Product, Transportation at Airbnb (2019–2020), leading product for Airbnb's Transportation business unit, an incubation started in early 2019. Paul Janzer's other Airbnb roles were Interim Head of Product, Homes Guest (2018–2019), Product Lead, Guest Membership (2017–2018) and Product Manager, Guest Growth (2016–2017).
Shajji Mohammed
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, Economics and growth · Airbnb
Head of Product, Economics and growth at Airbnb since December 2022; the profile says Shajji Mohammed leads product vision, strategy and execution for payments growth at Airbnb. Other roles include General Manager - Payments and Growth at Checkr, Inc. (2021–2022), Product Lead - Payments and Commerce Growth at Facebook (2019–2021) and Senior Manager, Product Management, Payments and Commerce at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2015–2019).
Vyl Chiang
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, Data · Airbnb
Head of Product, Data at Airbnb since September 2019, a head-level role in Airbnb's product department. The profile also lists product roles on data at Lyft (2017–2019) and on data infrastructure at Facebook (2015–2017), and Committer for Apache Superset at The Apache Software Foundation since 2018.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person to the product area behind your question, since payments, trust and safety, data platform and host growth decisions sit with different teams. Check each person's dates, especially for anyone who has left Airbnb, before asking about current roadmap choices.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Airbnb decide which capabilities to build as shared platforms versus inside individual product teams?
- 02How do you balance guest and host needs when a product change helps one side more than the other?
- 03How do you measure the success of trust, safety or payments features that are meant to prevent problems rather than drive usage?
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