Airbnb

Lead Platform Manager, Tech Foundations

United States. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own the end-to-end workflows that determine engineer productivity. You will define, instrument, and move developer productivity metrics by managing product areas and roadmaps.

What you will do

  • Establish product vision and northstar for the area
  • Own cross-cutting developer workflows end to end
  • Define how to measure developer productivity through metrics and research
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, TPM, and Data Science to establish success criteria
  • Develop the product roadmap and align on prioritization
  • Influence teams you do not own to prioritize developer productivity work
  • Develop a deep understanding of technical architecture and engineer workflows
  • Execute to ship products and deliver impact
  • Lead cross-functional groups to fulfill the team mission
  • Communicate concisely and influence outcomes at all levels

Required qualifications

  • 10+ years of product management experience building tools and platforms for technical users
  • Track record of improving developer or engineering productivity
  • Experience defining and operationalizing metrics for hard-to-quantify outcomes
  • Strong understanding of technical architecture for complex and highly scalable systems
  • Understanding of modern AI-powered developer workflows: AI-assisted development, code review, CI/CD, build systems, testing, deployment
  • Ability to drive outcomes across organizational boundaries without direct authority
  • Ability to understand customer goals and build products that meet them
  • Entrepreneurial drive to lead and influence cross-functional teams
  • Ability to absorb technical concepts and communicate with technical and non-technical partners
  • Ability to prioritize and scope user requests and platform capabilities
  • Storytelling skills that connect problems to a compelling vision

Nice to have

  • Previous experience as a software engineer, or working extremely closely with engineering teams
  • Familiarity with developer productivity research and frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DevEx)

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits

About the company

Airbnb is a vision- and mission-driven company that has grown to over 5 million hosts. It aims to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.

Lead Platform Manager, Tech Foundations at Airbnb | JobZoey