Engineering Manager, Client Data & Networking Platform

Summary

Join Airbnb's Client Data & Networking Platform as a Manager to lead and mentor a team of senior engineers. You will shape the team's strategy, deliver impactful projects, and foster a product-centric mindset. Responsibilities include prioritizing projects, building relationships with stakeholders, collaborating with other teams, and coaching team members. This role requires extensive engineering experience, a strong management background, and experience with client platforms. The position is US-remote eligible with occasional office work. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• 9+ years of overall engineering experience with 3-5+ years as a full-time manager
• BS or MS in CS or related field
• Experience working on a client platform (Android, iOS or Web), familiarity or interest in GraphQL and client performance
• Experience and desire to act as the team’s product manager
• Able to effectively work with senior leadership in setting strategic 12+ month direction
• Experience supporting and coaching multiple Staff+ and Senior engineers
• Experience managing a remote/distributed team
• Experience working on or leading an Infrastructure or Platform team supporting a medium to large engineering organization

Responsibilities

• Prioritize projects across stakeholders and scope to deliver impact to our client engineering community
• Foster relationships with partner teams and stakeholders
• Collaborate with other platform teams on shared projects / principles
• Coach and mentor the team with empathy to do their best work while growing in their roles and responsibilities
• Partner with Staff engineers to assist them in aligning architecture trade-offs and designing strategy
• Contribute to the broader organization’s culture and processes with a “first team” mentality
• Mentor and empower senior ICs to grow their impact beyond individual contributions, creating opportunities for them to lead technical initiatives that span across platforms and organizations
• Drive product thinking and cultivate a product mindset within the team by establishing user research processes, customer outreach, surveys, etc. to ensure the team’s tools and systems evolve to meet the changing needs of Airbnb's engineering community

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits