Airbnb Manager Experience Design Payments 

United States 

629610435

The difference you will make:

You will support, coach, and develop reports distributed across reimagining the guest booking experience to economically empowering Hosts through robust tools providing actionable insights and data innovative experiences that adapt and scale to a diverse and global community. You’ll establish design directions, work with cross-functional leadership on strategy, and collaborate with fellow teams to deliver and build highly polished experiences. You and your direct reports will author high quality digital products, tools, and education to the broader Design organization. Together, you will be the stewards of systematic thinking, intuitive interactions, and attention to every pixel.

A typical day:

• Support and shape the evolution of the Airbnb payments platform from a design perspective; ensure consistency with, and contribute to, our brand architecture and product architecture.
• Build and manage a well-rounded team of Experience Designers that consistently deliver on Airbnb’s priorities and design high-quality products and experiences.
• Collaborate closely with Design leadership on overall team performance, health, resource allocation, prioritization, and building a culture of design excellence.
• In close partnership with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Research and UX Writing, drive a holistic vision and strategy and lead multiple initiatives from inception to launch.

Your expertise:

• 10+ yrs of product design experience.
• 2+ years experience managing or leading design teams in matrixed organizations.
• Experience teaching, mentoring, building and promoting an inviting design culture.
• Systems-thinker with the ability to execute beyond the pixels, designing for online and offline experiences.
• Strong collaborator with design leadership, program management, engineering, content, research, and fellow design managers.
• Track record of designing and shipping high-quality products and global user experiences across multiple platforms (e.g. web, mobile, Android, iOS).
• Patient and optimistic approach within the team, adjacent teams, partners and our community.