[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Airbnb

Role Description

As the Engineering Manager for the Insights Platform on Airbnb's Guest & Host team, you'll lead the system that decides what every host is told about improving their earnings, quality and listings. It delivers that guidance across email, push notifications, in-product experiences, dashboards and conversational agents. You'll lead a team of senior and staff engineers across data engineering, machine learning and backend through the platform's next evolution: from batch to real-time and from rules-based to model-driven, with AI-assisted insight creation and personalization at its core. The team partners closely with product, design and data science, and with teams across Airbnb that rely on the platform to reach hosts.

A Typical Day:

• Work closely with other senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture that enables the company’s future vision.
• Partner with senior Product, Design and Data Science leaders to set platform strategy, including how insights are ranked, personalized and measured.
• Lead the team to build reliable, performant and scalable systems for insight creation, personalization, cross-channel delivery and measurement.
• Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction.
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps.
• Identify areas of improvement and drive best practices.
• Hands-on development, including design and code reviews.
• Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry; 5+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager role, with ownership responsibility over large-scale software systems.
• Strong product judgment, exercised through data. You understand the data behind user behavior and outcomes, spot patterns, and turn them into product and platform decisions.
• Track record of setting and holding a multi-year technical direction on a live, business-critical platform.
• Depth in backend, data or ML platforms, with the ability to understand and represent data engineering, machine learning and backend engineering.
• Experience applying ML and LLMs in production to personalize or rank what users see, and using experimentation and measurement to prove impact.
• Experience managing and growing senior and staff engineers, and creating an environment where they own initiatives end to end.
• Strong communication and influence with technical and non-technical partners.
• A proven track record of fostering a culture of Diversity and Belonging, within the organization and across the tech community.

Location

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.

How We'll Take Care of You

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

$212,000 — $265,000 USD

Reasonable Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

A Note on Recruiting Scams

Scammers sometimes pose as Airbnb recruiters to get money or personal information from candidates. A few things that will always be true for Airbnb’s hiring process: our open roles are posted on Airbnb’s Career’s Page at careers.airbnb.com, and our recruiters correspond only from @airbnb.com or @ext.airbnb.com email addresses.