Airbnb is hiring a
Senior Lead Program Manager

Summary

Join Airbnb's Design Operations team as a Senior Lead Design Program Manager to drive delivery of quarterly and annual roadmap objectives, ensure tight alignment of activities across teams, and oversee the end-to-end scoping, planning, execution, and launch of design programs.

Requirements

• BA/BS with 15+ years Consulting, Program Management, Product Management, Project Management or relevant experience
• Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions. You can take a vague problem, crisply frame the challenge, identify a path forward, and drive multiple initiatives over the finish-line
• Track record of managing and shipping impactful design initiatives in a large digital product org
• Long-term strategic thinking balanced with near-term execution skills. Distinctive problem solving skills
• Proven ability to build strong relationships and influence business leaders
• Demonstrable leadership skills and experience in mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution
• Demonstrated track record successfully managing ambitious and operationally complex projects with cross-functional teams
• Experience in structuring and implementing initiatives at scale with design and product teams
• Background in establishing systems: experience developing process where little exists, and demonstrated flexibility to get things done
• Passionate and enthusiastic about organizational excellence and attention to detail
• Thrives in ambiguity in a fast-paced, hyper-growth organization
• Ability to effectively structure and delegate work, while creating career growth opportunities for others
• Deep knowledge of and appreciation for the Product Design process
• Experience with or understanding of cross-functional (Design, Product Management, Product Marketing, Engineering) product-driven organizations or digital agency

Responsibilities

• Drive consistency and harmony in design team operating rhythm, including communication structures, project templates, leadership cadence, and resource utilization
• Initiate and run internal initiatives that significantly improve the Design org’s operations and cross-functional ways of working
• Optimize interaction models between Product Marketing, Engineering, Design, Creative, and Marketing, influencing cross-functionally to identify opportunity, unlock productivity, and accelerate execution
• Drive continuous improvement leveraging lessons learned from teams to celebrate successes as well as identify ways to improve
• Identify and predict obstacles, collisions, and risk to projects across multiple teams and seek solutions to eliminate them
• Inspire, develop, and challenge Airbnb's Design Program Management team, modeling excellence
• Build a following: attract and nurture the best talent