Office profile
Airbnb Headquarters & offices · San Francisco, California
Airbnb · San Francisco, California
Meeting rooms modeled on real Airbnb listings inside old SoMa warehouses — and staff who can work from 170+ countries for up to 90 days a year.
The Brannan Street headquarters, the Live and Work Anywhere policy and the perks — then the business. Every number from Airbnb's own filings, newsroom, careers site and its architects' project pages.
- 500,000+ sq ftacross 5 San Francisco buildings
- 90 daysa year working from abroad
- 17employee resource groups
- ≈ 8,200employees (end of 2025)
Sources: Form 10-K FY2025 · news.airbnb.com (Apr 28, 2022; Oct 25, 2024) · careers.airbnb.com/life-at-airbnb · WRNS Studio project page “Airbnb HQ”
Companies / United States / Travel & hospitality / Airbnb
THE HEADQUARTERS · 888 BRANNAN · SOMA
Rooms inspired by real listings, in old warehouses
Gensler spent four months embedded in Airbnb's offices before designing 888 Brannan: an open-plan workspace where each meeting room is inspired by a noteworthy Airbnb listing, linked by a meandering path. WRNS Studio then reworked the historic warehouse floors across five SoMa buildings into human-scale “neighborhoods” around atria, with skylights and operable windows.
- 500,000+ sq ft (≈ 46,452 m²), 5 buildings
- Rooms based on real listings
- Interiors: Gensler (888 Brannan, 2013)
- Architect: WRNS Studio (2013–2019)
- Lease at 888 Brannan through 2037
Rooms based on real listings
Gensler turned meeting rooms into copies of real Airbnb listings, so every meeting happens somewhere that looks like a home.
Facts: Gensler project page “Airbnb” · WRNS Studio project page “Airbnb HQ” · news.airbnb.com, Oct 25, 2024
Five buildings in SoMa, San Francisco
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | 888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 |
| 999 Brannan | 999 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA |
| 42 Decatur | 42 Decatur Street, San Francisco, CA |
| 650 Townsend | 650 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA |
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 cover (888 Brannan) · WRNS Studio project page “Airbnb HQ” (other buildings; WRNS counts five buildings in total) · See them on the map ↓
Source: WRNS Studio project page “Airbnb HQ” · Gensler project page “Airbnb” · news.airbnb.com/about-us and Oct 25, 2024 · Airbnb Environments project text (Archilovers) · Novo Construction project page (150,000 sq ft, completed 2018)
Benefits (as listed on Airbnb's careers site)
A quarterly Airbnb travel and experiences credit.
Work from home or an office, plus temporary work from abroad with approval.
Educational stipend, mentorship, sponsorship and speaker sessions.
An Employer Stock Purchase Program, alongside equity and an annual bonus program.
Regional retirement plans with employer match, plus financial coaching.
Plus parental coaching, a return-to-work transition and family care support.
Healthcare for you and your family, mental health support and international emergency travel health coverage.
An annual donation match and a volunteer program.
Source: careers.airbnb.com/life-at-airbnb (2026). Airbnb does not publish the amount of the travel credit or the length of parental leave there.
How Airbnb keeps people, in its own words
The Live and Work Anywhere policy lets the vast majority of employees work remotely.
Employees can move anywhere in the country they work in and their compensation won't change.
Up to 90 days a year in 170+ countries, introduced from September 2022.
Teams meet in person about once a quarter, for roughly a week each time.
From Able and AirPride to Veterans, Wisdom and Women — “everyone is welcome in all our communities.”
An annual educational stipend, mentorship and sponsorship, plus an engineering apprenticeship.
Source: news.airbnb.com, “Airbnb's design for employees to live and work anywhere” (Apr 28, 2022) · careers.airbnb.com/life-at-airbnb · Form 10-K FY2025, Human Capital
Who works here
employees (Dec 31, 2025)
third-party workers, mostly community support
employee resource groups
cities with Airbnb employees (2021)
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 (employees, third-party workers), FY2023 (gender), FY2021 (cities) · careers.airbnb.com (ERGs)
Pay at Airbnb
Source: Airbnb job postings 7383965 (Senior Software Engineer, Pricing & Availability) and 7528577 (Staff Software Engineer, Marketplaces & Intelligence Data and AI), careers.airbnb.com, 2026. Roles “may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.”
U.S. companies don't have to report pay by age, and Airbnb doesn't.
Compare Airbnb with: Booking Holdings
Office history: a few blocks in SoMa
- 2007 Air mattresses on Rausch Street
In October 2007 Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia hosted Airbed & Breakfast's first three guests in their apartment on Rausch Street, in San Francisco's SoMa district — the company's first listing.
Source: news.airbnb.com/about-us · Form S-1, 2020
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2008–09 Launch, and a new name
Nathan Blecharczyk joined as the third co-founder. The site launched at SXSW in March 2008 with two bookings, got 80 bookings at the Democratic National Convention that August, and became Airbnb in March 2009.
Source: news.airbnb.com/about-us · Proxy statement 2024 (co-founded 2008)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2011 The first office abroad
Airbnb began its international expansion in June 2011 by opening an office in Germany.
Source: news.airbnb.com/about-us
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2013 888 Brannan Street becomes headquarters
In June 2013 Airbnb opened its headquarters at 888 Brannan Street, a few blocks from the first listing on Rausch Street. Gensler designed open-plan floors where each room is inspired by a real Airbnb listing.
Source: news.airbnb.com/about-us · Gensler project page
888 Brannan Street, 2016 · Dllu / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2013–19 Five buildings, 500,000+ sq ft
WRNS Studio renovated and expanded the headquarters across 888 Brannan, 42 Decatur, 999 Brannan and 650 Townsend, turning historic warehouse floors into neighborhoods around atria.
Source: WRNS Studio project page “Airbnb HQ”
Inside the renovated buildings · Photo: Mark Mahaney, Jeremy Bittermann, Mariko Reed / WRNS Studio - 2017 999 Brannan, floors themed on cities
Completed in July 2017, about 14,000 m² designed by Airbnb's in-house Environments team with WRNS as architect of record — the team's largest single project, each floor organized around a different city.
Source: Airbnb Environments project text (Archilovers, 2017)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2022 Live and Work Anywhere
In April 2022 Airbnb let employees work from home or the office, move within their country without a pay change, and work abroad up to 90 days a year.
Source: news.airbnb.com, Apr 28, 2022
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2024 Staying on Brannan Street to 2037
Airbnb extended its 888 Brannan lease by 10 years, through 2037: over 250,000 sq ft, including new spaces on the first floor, kept as a place for in-person connection.
Source: news.airbnb.com, “Our commitment to our hometown, San Francisco” (Oct 25, 2024)
888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, 2016 · Dllu / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Map: how the headquarters moved
Airbnb has hardly moved: its first listing on Rausch Street and its headquarters on Brannan Street are a few blocks apart in SoMa, and since 2013 it has grown into neighboring buildings rather than leaving.
- 1 · 2007Rausch Street, SoMa — The founders' apartment and first listing (street only; no number published)
- 2 · 2017999 Brannan Street — Expansion building across Brannan Street, themed on cities
- 3 · 2013–today888 Brannan Street — Headquarters since June 2013; lease extended through 2037
Addresses: Form 10-K cover · Form S-1 (Rausch Street) · WRNS Studio project page · Coordinates approximate, by eciffo
What Airbnb does
Airbnb runs a marketplace where hosts list homes, experiences and services for guests. It has over 5 million hosts and more than 9 million active listings, and earns its money from fees on bookings.
Where the money came from · revenue by listing location, 2025
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Risk Factors (61% of revenue from listings outside the U.S.) · news.airbnb.com/about-us
Source: Airbnb Q4 2025 shareholder letter (Form 8-K, Exhibit 99.1, Feb 2026)
Growth: revenue vs. people
$2.6B → $12.2B
5,597 → 8,200
Calendar years. Revenue: Form S-1 (2017–2019) and Airbnb Q4 shareholder letters, Form 8-K Ex. 99.1 (2020–2025). Employees: Form 10-K, Dec 31 (2024 and 2025 approximate). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Co-founder; Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.
Co-founders: Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk.
Source: Proxy statement 2024 · news.airbnb.com/about-us
Airbnb: questions people ask
Where is Airbnb's headquarters?
At 888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, California 94103, in the SoMa district — a few blocks from the company's first listing on Rausch Street. Airbnb opened it in June 2013.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 cover · news.airbnb.com/about-us
Who designed Airbnb's headquarters?
Gensler designed the 888 Brannan interiors, with each room inspired by a real Airbnb listing. WRNS Studio renovated and expanded the headquarters across five buildings from 2013 to 2019, and Airbnb's in-house Environments team designed 999 Brannan (2017).
Source: Gensler · WRNS Studio · Airbnb Environments project text
How big is Airbnb's headquarters?
WRNS Studio puts the San Francisco headquarters at more than 500,000 sq ft (≈ 46,452 m²) across five buildings. The 888 Brannan lease alone covers over 250,000 sq ft (≈ 23,226 m²).
Source: WRNS Studio project page · news.airbnb.com, Oct 25, 2024
Is Airbnb staying in San Francisco?
Yes. In October 2024 Airbnb extended its 888 Brannan Street lease by 10 years, through 2037.
Source: news.airbnb.com, Oct 25, 2024
Can Airbnb employees work remotely?
Yes. Under the Live and Work Anywhere policy (April 2022), employees can work from home or the office, move anywhere in their country without a pay change, and work abroad for up to 90 days a year in 170+ countries. Teams meet in person about once a quarter.
Source: news.airbnb.com, Apr 28, 2022 · Form 10-K FY2025
What benefits does Airbnb offer?
A quarterly Airbnb travel and experiences credit, a quarterly Live and Work Anywhere allowance, an annual educational stipend, an employee stock purchase program, retirement plans with employer match, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits, and an annual donation match.
Source: careers.airbnb.com/life-at-airbnb
How many people work at Airbnb?
About 8,200 employees at the end of 2025, plus about 13,000 third-party workers who handle most community support contacts.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025
How much do Airbnb software engineers make?
2026 U.S. postings list $191,000–$223,000 for a Senior Software Engineer and $204,000–$255,000 for a Staff Software Engineer, and say roles may also be eligible for bonus, equity and Employee Travel Credits.
Source: Airbnb job postings 7383965 and 7528577
Who founded Airbnb and who is the CEO?
Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk. Brian Chesky is co-founder, CEO and Chairman; Nathan Blecharczyk is Chief Strategy Officer.
Source: Proxy statement 2024 · news.airbnb.com/about-us
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