Airbnb Senior Lead Program Manager Experiences & Services 

United States 

613494492

The Difference You Will Make:

As the Senior Lead Program Manager you will thrive and lead others from ambiguity to clarity; You can take a vague problem, crisply frame the challenge, identify a path forward, and drive an initiative over the finish-line.

A Typical Day:

• Scope, define, and manage on-product and cross-functional marketing strategic initiatives and programs: define actionable plans, resourcing, and sequencing for large bodies of work:
• Drive a successful implementation by aligning and influencing relevant stakeholders across teams and markets and driving scope, resourcing, and workflow management.
• Provide up-to-date visibility into current projects, resource utilization, team performance and product health across your teams and leadership
• Facilitate regular project status and design review meetings. Ensure right stakeholders and cross-functional team members are involved, document decisions and actions items, and follow up with owners on commitments.
• Identify and predict obstacles, collisions, and risk to projects across multiple teams and seek solutions to eliminate them.
• Balance competing priorities and adjust resources as necessary.

• Establish and manage team operating rhythm, including communication structures, project templates, sprint cadence, review forums and leadership cadence.
• Define and manage how the team interfaces with other critical business functions such as Product Marketing, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Creative, Business Ops, Supply, Legal, Policy, Globalization and Comms.
• Define initiative level program roadmap with macro-view of all supporting workstreams, ensure work delivers on goals, and drive the overall program to completion.

Your Expertise:

• 13+ years experience in Consulting, Program Management, Product Management, Project Management.
• Blend of digital product and marketing experience.
• Track record of managing and shipping impactful product and/or marketing 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 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 marketing, design and product teams.
• Knowledge of and appreciation for the Product development process.

• Experience with or understanding of the design/creative and production process through various types of projects: branding/identity, content, naming, merchandising, partnerships, etc.

Offices: United States