[Hiring] Lead Platform Manager @Airbnb

Role Description

As a Lead Product Manager for Developer Productivity, you will own the product areas developers rely on, and you will own something harder: the end-to-end workflows that determine how productive our engineers actually are. Those workflows cross organizational boundaries — a single developer journey can touch other parts of the infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, and security. Your job is to understand the end-to-end developer journey, find where it breaks, and drive the work to fix it whether or not the fix lives in your teams.

You will define what developer productivity means at Airbnb, instrument it, and be accountable for moving it. In collaboration with business stakeholders, product marketing, and technical program managers, you will help shape the roadmap for these products, with an emphasis on bringing together disparate offerings into a cohesive infrastructure roadmap. This will include the creation and ownership of Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) and Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) to inform technical decisions. You will also partner with engineers, designers, data scientists, and field-operations teams to scale our solutions across existing and emerging business segments, ensuring a cohesive system view.

A typical day includes:

• Establishing product vision and northstar for your area, and connecting it into the broader developer productivity strategy.
• Owning cross-cutting developer workflows end to end — mapping where they break across pillars like App & Cloud Infra, Reliability Engineering, and Developer Experience, and driving the changes that improve them.
• Defining how we measure developer productivity: building the metrics, instrumentation, and qualitative research that tell us whether engineers' lives are actually getting better.
• Partnering with Engineering, Product, TPM, and Data Science to understand goals and establish success criteria with clearly measurable objectives and key results.
• Developing the product roadmap, and getting alignment on prioritization and timelines to meet business goals.
• Influencing teams you don't own — building the case, bringing the data, and getting other groups to prioritize developer productivity work alongside their own roadmaps.
• Developing a deep understanding of how Airbnb's engineers work day to day, and of the technical architecture underneath, to build and improve products that fit into real workflows rather than around them.
• Executing efficiently to ship products and deliver impact for our business and users.
• Leading cross-functional groups to fulfill the team’s mission, acting as the system voice.
• Communicating concisely and influencing outcomes at all levels of the organization, demonstrating strong executive presence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience building tools and platforms for technical users — developer tooling, infrastructure, or platform products.
• Track record of improving developer or engineering productivity, with the measurements to prove it.
• Experience defining and operationalizing metrics for hard-to-quantify outcomes — when quantitative metrics are needed and matter, and when qualitative metrics may or may not be more impactful.
• Strong understanding of technical architecture for complex and highly scalable systems, and of modern AI-powered developer workflows: AI-assisted development, code review, CI/CD, build systems, testing, deployment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive outcomes across organizational boundaries without direct authority — influencing roadmaps you don't own.
• Ability to understand immediate and longer-term customer goals and needs, and build products that meet them.
• Entrepreneurial drive, and demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams to align on a vision and product strategy.
• Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical partners at every level of the organization.
• Ability to prioritize and scope user requests and platform capabilities, balancing long-term vision against short-term pain points.
• Previous experience as a software engineer, or working extremely closely with engineering teams, is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with developer productivity research and frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DevEx) is a plus.
• Storytelling skills that connect the problem you’re solving to a compelling vision, coupled with a willingness to dive into the details.

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.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.