Airbnb Payments Platform Manager 

United States 

576849632

The Community You Will Join:

Our Payments product organization has 2 domains:

• Payments and Commerce Platform - facilitating money movement and exchange of value while also fueling growth for our business
• Payments Risk and Compliance - ensuring safe and efficient payment processing

A Typical Day:

• Drive Payments funds & ledger vision and strategy
• Develop and execute a comprehensive multi year roadmaps that supports the measurement and optimization of payments at scale
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Engineering, Operations, Analytics, Partnerships, Treasury, Finance, Tax and Product Management to define requirements, prioritize features and align goals
• Develop compelling and clear product narratives and requirement documents. Develop hypotheses based experiments, define clear success metrics and detailed roll out plans
• Define and analyze KPIs that inform success & health
• Drive the integration of partner products and services to enhance our platform capabilities
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive playbooks that support the resolution of top processing challenges for our community
• Stay up to date with payment industry trends, technologies and best practices in payment processing. Leverage this knowledge to improve our processes and platform

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years in a product management role working on global payment platforms
• Deep experience in building financial reporting, and ledger products within Payments
• Familiarity with the broader payments ecosystem consisting of PSPs, acquirers and networks
• You grasp the fundamentals of funds management, financial transactions, and ledger systems.
• You have familiarity with double-entry bookkeeping, general ledger structures, and accounting principles.
• Take ownership of day-to-day product management, execution and payment escalations
• Platform product management experience, building products that can be leveraged by a variety of business customers
• Ability to work directly with engineers to develop use cases, build inspiring narratives, prioritize features, and evaluate short-term vs. long-term trade-offs
• Ability to lead by influence across a diverse team of engineers, data scientists, finance, treasury, compliance, legal, and business experts
• Ability to clearly articulate the story for what problem you’re solving for and the vision you’re going after, combined with the capacity to dive into minute details when necessary
• Exceptional decision making skills: given limited resources, how do you prioritize across needs?
• Thrive in a startup culture: dealing with fast pace, changing needs, and limited resources
• Highly data driven with strong analytical skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical chops - experience as an engineer, data scientist, or payment operations specialist
• Global perspective - experience with global and alternative payment methods
• Knowledge and experience using collaborative tools of the trade (e.g. JIRA, SQL, Asana, Google Docs, Scrum, Agile) as well as design/mockup tools (e.g. Figma, Invision)
• Operations - understands the mutually beneficial relationship between technology and operations, and can efficiently invest in each