Revenue Manager - Short Term Rentals (Holiday Homes)- Dubai

Aurora is a fast-growing holiday homes operator in Dubai, managing and scaling a portfolio of premium apartments in prime locations including Downtown, Dubai Marina, JBR, and Palm Jumeirah.

Our mission is to maximize property performance through professional revenue management, dynamic pricing, and hotel-level operational standards. We are actively expanding and looking for a dedicated Revenue Manager to optimize pricing, occupancy, and overall portfolio profitability.

Role Overview

This is a performance-critical role responsible for maximizing revenue across our portfolio through dynamic pricing, demand forecasting, and data-driven strategy.

You will directly influence revenue performance, ADR, RevPAR, occupancy, and overall profitability.

This is not a passive role. We are looking for someone analytical, proactive, and obsessed with optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage dynamic pricing across Airbnb, Booking.com, and direct channels
• Optimize ADR, occupancy rate, and RevPAR across all properties
• Analyze market demand, seasonality, events, and competitor pricing
• Continuously adjust pricing strategy based on performance and market trends
• Identify revenue opportunities and underperforming listings
• Recommend minimum stay strategies, gap filling, and booking window optimization
• Monitor daily pickup, pacing, and forward occupancy
• Optimize listing performance and revenue conversion
• Optimize listing promotions and OTA performance
• Work with tools such as PriceLabs or similar
• Collaborate with operations and marketing teams to improve overall performance
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly performance reports

KPIs You Will Be Responsible For

• Revenue growth per unit
• ADR improvement
• Occupancy rate optimization
• RevPAR growth
• Reduction of empty nights
• Portfolio revenue growth

Requirements

Mandatory:

• Proven experience managing pricing for Airbnb / STR / hotels
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
• Experience with dynamic pricing tools (PriceLabs, Wheelhouse, Beyond, etc.)
• Strong understanding of supply, demand, and pricing psychology
• Experience managing multiple units simultaneously
• Excellent attention to detail

Highly Preferred:

• Experience managing STR portfolio of 50+ units
• Experience in Dubai STR market
• Experience with PMS systems (Hostaway, Guesty, Hospitable, etc.)
• Hotel revenue management background
• Excel / Google Sheets proficiency

Ideal Candidate Profile

You are:

• Data-driven and analytical
• Obsessed with optimization
• Proactive, not reactive
• Comfortable making daily pricing decisions
• Able to spot trends and opportunities early
• Focused on maximizing revenue, not just maintaining pricing

What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Performance bonuses based on revenue growth
• Opportunity to scale with a fast-growing company
• Direct impact on company profitability
• Long-term career growth opportunity
• Flexible working structure (remote or hybrid)

To Apply

Please include:

• Your experience with STR or hotel revenue management
• Tools you have used
• Portfolio size managed
• Example of revenue improvements you achieved
• Expected salary

Aurora is building one of Dubai’s leading STR portfolios. If you are serious about revenue optimization and want to directly influence portfolio performance, we want to hear from you. Job code: S173

Job Type: Full-time

Application Question(s):

• What is the job code?
• Which pricing tools have you actively used? (not just seen)
• Which PMS systems have you used?
• What markets have you managed?
• A unit normally sells for 1000 AED per night. It is empty 5 days before check-in. What do you do? Explain your exact strategy.
• What is more important: occupancy or ADR? Explain why.
• Which metrics do you track daily?
• How many STR units have you personally managed pricing for?
• Do you manually review and adjust pricing daily, weekly, or let Pricelabs handle it?
• What revenue increase have you personally achieved for a portfolio?

Experience:

• Dubai market: 1 year (Required)