Platform Manager, Privacy

Summary

Join Airbnb as a Privacy Platform Manager and play a crucial role in shaping the company's privacy initiatives. Partner with the Chief Privacy Officer and cross-functional teams to build privacy into platform capabilities and tools. Drive product vision, strategy, and technical requirements for privacy features. Stay updated on cutting-edge privacy innovations and technologies. Define success metrics and SLAs, evaluate new product opportunities, and work collaboratively with stakeholders for successful delivery. This role requires 10+ years of experience in product or project management, a BA/BS degree, and a strong interest in privacy. The position is US-remote eligible with occasional office work.

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in Product, Technical Program or Project Management, or similar role leading a cross-functional technical team
• BA/BS degree is required
• 3+ years of technical product management
• Exceptional collaboration, partnership and influencing skills with the ability to work in a global environment across multiple locations and time zones to drive consensus and deliver results in cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills to interface well with technical, operations and business partners at all levels
• Demonstrated ability to translate policy and business requirements and work with various levels of business stakeholders to create innovative scalable solutions
• Outstanding written and verbal communication ability to a diverse stakeholder audience, including a global team of C-level executives, product, and technical stakeholders
• Strong customer engagement and relationship management skills
• More than comfortable in an ambiguous matrixed organization
• Strategic platform and system thinker who can balance big picture strategy with detailed, flawless execution
• Creativity and ability to work independently with limited guidance with proven ability to create structures and develop operational concepts
• High tolerance for ambiguity and ability to perform under pressure to meet deadlines
• Experience developing roadmaps and long-term data-driven strategies for improving operations, data platform efficiencies - all without sacrificing quality
• Self-sufficient in analyzing and drawing conclusions about the quality and platform opportunity from raw and refined platform data
• Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
• Innate capability to, directly and indirectly, lead cross-functional teams through success
• Strong technical project/product management experience in large scale systems, Linux/server operating systems, databases, cloud computing, big data, networking

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand the need, and opportunity, for privacy features and capabilities and how they can be applied intelligently within Airbnb and for the Airbnb community
• Drive product vision, strategy, technical requirements and end results for privacy
• Keep up with cutting-edge privacy innovations, technologies, and techniques that can potentially be applied to Airbnb
• Define and drive technical scope and prioritization and be flexible to iterate/change per latest developments to meet agreed upon deadlines and business needs
• Maintain backlog, drive roadmap and own prioritization process for privacy based on customer impact and business value
• Define the success metrics and SLAs by partnering with other cross functional leaders in the Businesses and Community Support while keeping the metrics up to date and relevant
• Evaluate new product opportunities (both buy and build solutions) and bring forward proposals and influence to expand product and business capabilities with data and intelligent automation at the forefront
• Work closely with all business, ops, and platform stakeholders to ensure successful end-to-end delivery of privacy products
• Work closely and collaboratively with Trust operations and engineering teams to ensure reliable privacy operations and SLAs are met or exceeded
• Present overall roadmap status to leadership on an ongoing basis

Preferred Qualifications

• Concentration in Computer Science or a related technical discipline is preferred
• IAPP privacy certification preferred
• Bonus points for past programming experience

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits