Product Manager, Airbnb

Developer Platform

$192-235k

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

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Airbnb

Community marketplace for holiday accomodation

Open for applications

Airbnb

Community marketplace for holiday accomodation

1001+ employees

B2CHospitalityB2BTravelMarketplaceSharing Economy

Open for applications

$192-235k

Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2CHospitalityB2BTravelMarketplaceSharing Economy

Company mission

To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years of experience building developer frameworks, tools, or infrastructure, with 8+ years of product management experience in those areas. Specific experience building for web and native application developers is a plus
  • Passionate about improving developer productivity, product quality, and automating/optimizing developer workflows
  • Demonstrated empathy for key developer pain points, and a track record of leadership in building products for developers
  • Strong understanding of technical architecture and development process for distributed systems
  • Experience with managing multiple product team roadmaps to build cohesive developer ecosystems, platforms and tools
  • Proven ability to prioritize and pair bold product vision with execution
  • Strong written and verbal communication ability to influence and drive strategy with a wide range of stakeholders, from C-suite execs to technical partners

What the job involves

  • We are seeking an experienced, driven, seasoned technical product manager who is passionate about improving developer productivity
  • You will own the infrastructure, processes, and tooling that empowers our developers to rapidly deliver high quality services and experiences to our customers at massive and growing scale
  • You will be responsible for defining the vision for the future of development at Airbnb, and defining the roadmap for how we will achieve a best in class developer experience that will scale with our growth
  • Your teams will deliver the core infrastructure that our developers rely on to build, test, and deploy their services and features for our guests and hosts around the world
  • Establish vision for a world class development experience. Challenge the status quo and inspire people toward a unified outcome
  • Create clear goals for the entire Developer Platform organization. Efficiently execute to ship products and deliver impact for our engineers, solving technical and operational problems as they relate to product development
  • Lead large, cross-functional groups of people to deliver on your teams’ mission
  • Communicate concisely with engineering and product leadership, and influence our technical strategy
  • Develop the product roadmap and build consensus on prioritization which drives product execution
  • Create processes for collecting feedback from users, and prioritizing requests across an expanding number of businesses
  • Define key success metrics and SLOs to track developer productivity and quality
  • The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager

Our take

When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.

Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.

Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.

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Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

25% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)

Apr 2020

$500m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Mar 2017

$447.8m

SERIES F

Total funding: $3.8bn

Company benefits

  • Paid volunteer time
  • Health food and snacks
  • Generous parental and family leave
  • Learning and development
  • Annual travel and experiences credit

Company values

  • Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
  • Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
  • Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
  • Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality

Company HQ

Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Brian Chesky

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.

Nathan Blecharczyk

(Co-Founder & CSO)

Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.

Joe Gebbia

(Co-Founder)

Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups

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