Senior Product Programs Lead

Airbnb; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Roadmap Planning & Program Manager to align strategy with execution across design, product, marketing, engineering, and operations. You will drive the company roadmap, scale programs, and partner with senior leadership to shape Airbnb’s future.

You will coordinate with diverse teams, manage risks, and develop plans that connect strategy to delivery while maintaining a strong focus on impact, speed, and quality.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in program management, product management, or business operations managing sophisticated software product programs.
• Strong product and/or technology experience including product management or engineering (software preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to ship software products at global scale with complex challenges.
• World-class communication skills and the ability to simplify complex topics.

Responsibilities

• Partners with engineering, product marketing, design, community support, and other cross functional teams to deliver software product programs with the highest quality and on schedule.
• Understands dependencies across functions to optimize the overall system and deliver the highest quality offerings at scale.
• World-class communicator that can simplify the complex.
• Anticipates risks and develops mitigations in a fast-paced environment.
• Brings a product mindset to tie strategy and execution together.
• Develops program plans tailored to each initiative with strategic thinking.
• Operates at multiple levels of communication and engagement.
• Collaborates across consumer, technology, and design teams.
• Drives issues to resolution beyond status reporting.
• Identifies best practices and drives simplification.

Skills

Program management

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Influencing

Relationship building

Strategic thinking

Ambiguity tolerance

Data-driven decision making

Stakeholder management

Tools

Airtable

Asana

Jira

Smartsheets

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Roadmap Planning & Program Manager to align strategy with execution across design, product, marketing, engineering, and operations. You will drive the company roadmap, scale programs, and partner with senior leadership to shape Airbnb’s future.

You will coordinate with diverse teams, manage risks, and develop plans that connect strategy to delivery while maintaining a strong focus on impact, speed, and quality.