Airbnb Senior Manager Technical Program Management Guest & Host Tech 

United States 

472584930

A Typical Day:

• 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.
• Work with Design, Finance, Operations and PMO Manager peers to identify opportunities to improve collaboration between Engineering/TPM and those functions. Spearhead and oversee process improvements until fully adopted.
• Act as the communication lead for the G&H Tech engineering community for the delivery of features for one of our bi-annual product releases. This involves close collaboration with PMO, Design, QA release leaders on communicating program level updates as well as identifying and running down program level risks and areas of ambiguity.
• 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

Your Expertise:

• 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.
• Experience growing a TPM function or PMO within a startup environment is appreciated but not required.