Airbnb Manager Engineering – Community Support 

United States 

683624383

The Difference You Will Make:

• Lead engineering planning and delivery of a wide range of new and improved features and capabilities powering Airbnb’s adherence to global policy, response to real world disruptive events (earthquake, severe weather, power outage, etc.), and process workflows.
• Build a strong and diverse team capable of turning ambitious product visions into a polished reality.
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering leaders to plan and deliver a wide range of new and improved features and capabilities.
• Mentor and empower senior ICs to grow their impact beyond individual contributions, creating opportunities for them to lead technical initiatives that span across platforms and organizations.

A Typical Day:

• Work with product, design, and other stakeholders to define, prioritize, and execute the roadmap.
• Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs, and deliver new features and platform capabilities.
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production.
• Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain system health and build for long-term success.
• Coach exceptional engineering talent in one-on-ones to understand underlying motivations and dynamics.

Your Expertise:

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team and 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.
• Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user facing features.
• Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners.
• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending on the situation.
• Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact.
• Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability, and availability.
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment.
• Able to identify, retain, grow, and acquire critical talent.
• Experience building and shipping AI/ML driven end user features is a large bonus.

Offices: United States