Airbnb Senior Staff Technical Program Manager Data Storage 

United States 

461547163

A Typical Day:

• 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.
• Think both broadly about overall outcomes while using good judgment on where to focus in on details
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Be able to answer questions about ongoing initiatives, architecture and systems, staffing, and priorities
• Support other data TPMs working on related tracks of work

Your Expertise:

• 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 with near real-time data transport, distributed storage or analytic systems a plus (e.g., Kafka, K8, MongoDB, Starrocks)
• 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. You can take a vague problem, crisply frame the challenge, identify a path forward, and drive an initiative over the finish-line.
• 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.