10 former Airbnb payments leaders
These ten people led payments teams or payments work at Airbnb and have since left the company. A reader can learn how payments work was run at a company like Airbnb from people who did it there.
Professionals to explore
Alyssa Cutright
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Global Payments | CEO, Airbnb Payments Inc · Airbnb
Alyssa Cutright is a former Vice President Global Payments | CEO, Airbnb Payments Inc at Airbnb, holding the role from 2023 to 2026, and the profile highlight for that role describes leading all payments globally for the marketplace. Alyssa Cutright was Vice President, GM – Global Payments & Risk at eBay from 2016 to 2022.
Brian Wey
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, Airbnb Payments · Airbnb
Brian Wey is a former Head of Product, Airbnb Payments at Airbnb, holding the role from 2014 to 2020, and was Director, Product Management at PayPal from 2011 to 2014. Brian Wey has been Sr. Director Commercial Growth at ŌURA since 2025 and was Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Thematic from 2021 to 2024.
Dave G
LinkedInExperience: Staff Product Manager - Payments AI/ML · Airbnb
Dave G is a former Staff Product Manager - Payments AI/ML at Airbnb, holding the role in 2025, and held Lead Product Manager and Senior Product Manager titles at Google from 2020 to 2025. Dave G has been Principal Product Manager at Gemini since 2025 and is based in Mountain View, California.
David Wang
LinkedInExperience: Head Of Engineering, Payments Risk · Airbnb
David Wang is a former Head Of Engineering, Payments Risk at Airbnb, holding the role from 2022 to 2026, and the profile describes Dawei as the engineering head of the payments risk team at Airbnb. At Airbnb, David Wang was also Engineering Manager from 2020 to 2022 and Tech Lead from 2017 to 2020, and has been Senior Engineering Manager at Roblox since August 2026.
Derek Shimozawa
LinkedInExperience: Global Head of Product - Payments and Commerce · Airbnb
Derek Shimozawa is a former Global Head of Product - Payments and Commerce at Airbnb, holding the role from 2019 to 2025, and was Product Lead - Samsung Pay at Samsung Mobile from 2014 to 2017. Derek Shimozawa has been Head of Product - Payments at Mercor since 2025.
Eden Smith Parks
LinkedInExperience: Principal Product Manager, Payments Processing · Airbnb
Eden Smith Parks is a former Principal Product Manager, Payments Processing at Airbnb, holding the role from 2020 to 2023, and was a Senior Product Manager there from 2019 to 2020. Eden Smith Parks has been Director of Product - Interro Payments at iAltA since 2026 and worked on Global Risk Products & Business Intelligence at Visa from 2017 to 2019.
Emily Lawrence
LinkedInExperience: Head of Design, Payments · Airbnb
Emily Lawrence is a former Head of Design, Payments at Airbnb, holding the role from 2017 to 2020, and was Design Director there from 2020 to 2021. Emily Lawrence held Design Manager and UI Designer titles at Airbnb from 2012 to 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Jenna Son
LinkedInExperience: Senior Engineering Manager · Airbnb
Jenna Son is a former Senior Engineering Manager at Airbnb, holding the role from 2017 to 2023, and the profile highlight for that role describes leading four full stack teams in payments covering guest payment methods, host payouts and gift cards. Jenna Son was an Engineering Manager at Airbnb from 2015 to 2017.
Kapil Mokhat
LinkedInExperience: Head of Payments Programs and Partnerships · Airbnb
Kapil Mokhat is a former Head of Payments Programs and Partnerships at Airbnb, holding the role from 2014 to 2019, and the profile highlight for that role describes leading the development and scaling of Airbnb Payments. Kapil Mokhat was Head of Growth at Venmo from 2019 to 2020, general manager-commerce there from 2020 to 2021 and President of Flip from 2022 to 2024.
Lucius DiPhillips
LinkedInExperience: Head of Payments Engineering & Data Science, Finance Engineering · Airbnb
Lucius DiPhillips is a former Head of Payments Engineering & Data Science, Finance Engineering at Airbnb, holding the role from 2018 to 2020, and was Chief Information Officer (CIO) there from 2020 to 2026. Lucius DiPhillips has been Chief Information Officer (CIO) @ Adobe at Adobe since 2026.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question, since payments leadership, payments product, payments engineering, payment partnerships, design and payments risk roles each saw a different part of marketplace payments. Check the years of their Airbnb role and where they work now, because payment methods and rules change quickly.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you decide which guest payment methods and host payout options to support in each market?
- 02Which measures told you whether payments and payouts were working well for guests and hosts?
- 03What would you build first for payments at a younger marketplace with a small team?
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