Remote Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Data

Summary

Join Airbnb's Infrastructure team as a Technical Program Manager (TPM) to partner with Data engineering & product teams in building/enhance data driven decision making across multiple areas. The TPM will drive storage initiatives, collaborate on platform functionality, and enable cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

• At least 13 years of work experience, with at least 11 years as a TPM or relevant experience
• Experience leading programs involving scalable, reliable storage big data systems (e.g., databases, file systems, data analytics platforms)
• Experience working with customers on how their workloads can best leverage the underlying infrastructure
• Experience working with both online and offline systems
• Strong communications skills - able to capture customer requirements and distill customer-specific requirements and/or help onboard customers to the systems one has supported
• Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions
• Self-motivated, proactive and proven ability to adapt well and work with teams having different operating cadences
• Sound business judgment, a proven ability to influence others, strong analytical skills, and a track record of taking ownership, leading data driven analyses, and influencing results
• Experience developing and fine tuning processes that speed work up, and flexibility to get things done
• Detail-oriented and able to understand the bigger picture by using your technical expertise and problem solving abilities to prioritize and manage blocking issues
• Experience working in a highly cross-functional environment where communication with multiple functions (Privacy, Product, Engineering, Data Science) is imperative
• Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Own and drive storage initiatives across teams related to the application of data movement
• Collaborate with online & offline storage teams in the design and deployment of platform functionality that enables Airbnb to efficiently manage data movement and transformations
• Consume complex data and information to drive insights and create impactful stories
• Enable cross functional collaboration between vertically oriented teams to solve high priority company projects
• Support the teams to deliver work across multiple tracks with high quality by streamlining the team’s practices and processes, and optimizing ways of working
• Influence the technical direction of projects to meet the data stakeholders’ needs while upholding quality
• Quickly validate project ideas through iterative development, and pivot as necessary
• Showcase the team’s work in front of senior leaders, clearly communicate trade-offs, risks, and opportunities to a broad set of stakeholders
• Proactively share context with the team, and help the team connect the dots of their work with broader company and organizational initiatives
• Support other data TPMs working on related tracks of work

Benefits

• US - Remote Eligible
• Pay Range: $224,000 — $280,000 USD