Airbnb is hiring a
Senior Manager

Summary

Join our team as a Technical Program Manager and partner with Guest & Host Engineering and Data Science organization to build world-class platforms and features for our community of Guests and Hosts. You will have the opportunity to impact every person who travels or hosts on Airbnb, working closely with cross-functional teams to achieve desired outcomes.

Requirements

• 13+ years in technical program management function, with at least 5 years experience leading and mentoring a team of TPMs, creating a culture of inclusiveness and sustainability
• Interest and extensive experience driving change within an organization which includes ability to effectively navigate organizational or process ambiguity to achieve a goal or outcome
• Nimble, self-motivated, curious, proactive with a proven ability to adapt to changes and effective working in a dynamic env where priorities can shift from day to day
• Organizational leadership, with proven ability to collaborate and influence teams across boundaries
• Experience with spearheading, evangelizing and iterating on processes improvements which contribute to higher caliber of engineering deliverables or improved ways of working within engineering or with engineering partners like design, product, finance, operations
• Appreciation and experience working with engineering teams who value iterative development best practices
• Highly organized and impeccable communication skills

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a high-performance culture- you will be responsible for developing a team of TPMs, providing continual feedback, coaching and career growth for direct reports
• Help scale your team's impact by favoring automation over manual work, setting realistic goals and expectations with stakeholders, and up-leveling TPM skills
• Through yourself, your TPM manager peers or through the TPMs identify and drive process improvements which are needed to either improve the quality of engineering deliverables, or allow for more efficient tracking of engineering deliverables within the product lifecycle
• Function as the lead for identifying and prioritizing cross functional process improvements with PMO, Finance, Design and Product leads to improve ways of working on user facing features. Spearhead and oversee process improvements until fully adopted
• Collaborate with TPM Manager peers and Design, PMO and Finance peers to create alignment on strategies and roadmaps, and ensure effective prioritization / trade-offs against overall strategy and organizational constraints
• Provide executional guidance and support for your team’s projects by helping simplify the technically complex, unblocking teams, identifying risks and opportunities
• Partner with your peers leading other TPM teams to strengthen the craft
• As needed, hands on management of large, complex, strategic programs

Benefits

Bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits