Airbnb Program Manager Roadmap Planning & Management 

United States, California, San Francisco 

64398107

The Community You Will Join:

The Roadmap Planning & Program Management team sits at the intersection of strategy and execution with the aim of planning and delivering the company’s priority products while providing executives the visibility and input they require to guide bi-annual releases.

A Typical Day:

• Partners with product marketing, design, engineering, community support, and other cross functional teams to deliver programs with the highest quality and on schedule
• Understands dependencies across functions to optimize the overall system and deliver the highest quality offerings
• World-class communicator in both verbal and written communications, simplify the complex, visually representing your point of view
• Proactively anticipates upcoming risks and issues and develops risk mitigation strategies in partnership with your leaders in a fast pace environment
• Experienced in thinking holistically and collaborating with product experts to influence the connection between strategy and execution
• Develops program plans that are unique to each initiative with excellence in the tactical and experience in strategic thinking
• Tailors communication style and approach to audiences, has experience presenting to and communicating with executive audiences
• Strong collaborator versed in consumer, technology, and design vernacular
• Strong articulator of impact and progress through the use of reporting and visual storytelling.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and role-model assuming positive intent and driving to make an impact.
• Drives for resolution within your specific areas of responsibility with initiative and owner-mindset
• Understands best practices, drives improvements, and focuses on simplification

Your Expertise:

• Experience in program management, product management, or business operations managing sophisticated programs end to end in a creative-led fast paced environment
• Experience in consumer-facing businesses, technology, and design
• Exposure to product and/or technology experience including product management or engineering
• Demonstrated ability of participating in the shipping products at scale having overcome a variety of challenges as a part of a larger project team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills that can simplify complex topics and role-model cross-functional team collaboration
• Strong influencing and presentation skills that expand your influence beyond your team and across your org.
• Expertise in using program management tools such as Airtable, Asana, Jira, Smartsheets, etc.
• Thrives in ambiguity in a fast-paced, hyper-growth organization
• Up to 20% travel required