Airbnb Senior Design Manager Production 

United States 

284012723

You’ll be actively involved in helping teams adopt our new system, guiding transitions from legacy components, aligning with evolving guidelines, and ensuring quality across a wide range of product surfaces. While also driving and identifying future ways of working in regards to automation, speed and craft.

• Lead and manage a team of production designers, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and craft excellence
• Oversee the implementation, maintenance, and transition of Airbnb’s design systems while ensuring consistency, accessibility, and readiness across all platforms
• Collaborate with feature teams and marketing creative teams to ensure seamless production workflows and high-quality asset delivery
• Define and refine production workflows, including clear handoff expectations and close collaboration with experience designers
• Work with engineering partners to ensure design fidelity through hands-on QA and scalable implementation checkpoints
• Partner with design technologists and internal tool builders to identify inefficiencies and scope automation opportunities
• Create and maintain documentation, redlines, templates, and specs that improve designer efficiency and cross-functional clarity
• Contribute to the refinement of components, iconography, and UI patterns while ensuring system cohesion across all product surfaces
• Build team rituals that support mentorship, growth, and close integration with partner teams

• 12+ years in production design, design systems, or a related discipline, including at least 3 years in a leadership role
• Expertise working with large-scale production, design systems, including system migrations and onboarding teams to new libraries
• Deep proficiency in Figma, including variables, components, and branching workflows, and familiarity with tools like Sketch, Illustrator, and Photoshop
• Strong experience with specification development, redlining, accessibility, and localization
• Familiarity with DevMode or other handoff tooling, with a clear understanding of modern production and engineering workflows
• Skilled in partnering with engineers to drive QA processes and uphold implementation fidelity
• Experience shaping tooling improvements or contributing to automation initiatives is a plus
• Proficiency with tools such as Lotti, C4D, Photoshop & Illustrator would be a bonus

• You’ll set the foundation for Airbnb’s production design discipline and drive high-impact design execution at scale.
• You’ll collaborate closely with top-tier design and engineering teams to deliver polished, high-quality experiences.
• You’ll influence and refine Airbnb’s design systems, ensuring consistency and innovation across all platforms.
• You’ll work in an inclusive, design-driven culture that values craft, precision, and thoughtful execution.

Offices: United States