Senior TPM Lead — Infrastructure & AI-Ready Platform

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 232,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Manager of Technical Program Management to lead a team across Data Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering, and Developer Experience. You will drive multi‑org programs, partner with senior ICs and directors, and shape infrastructure to scale with AI‑driven workloads.

Ideal candidates bring 12+ years in TPM or related roles, deep technical grounding in data systems and cloud infra, and a track record of delivering complex migrations at scale.

Qualifications

• Over a decade in technical program management or related fields.
• Proven ability to drive multi‑team programs with ambiguity.
• Strong grounding in data infra and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical direction and align stakeholder needs with high quality standards.
• Lead phased rollouts and platform migrations with minimal disruption.
• Define success criteria (SLOs, availability, cost) and ensure outcomes.
• Mentor TPMs, set standards for planning and portfolio reporting.
• Drive infrastructure for AI workloads and scalable developer tooling.
• Collaborate across Data, Reliability, and Developer Experience teams.

Skills

TPM leadership

Ambiguity to solution

Distributed data systems

Kubernetes & cloud infra

Observability platforms

CI/CD & monorepos

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Spark

Trino

Flink

Kafka

Iceberg

Kubernetes

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Manager of Technical Program Management to lead a team across Data Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering, and Developer Experience. You will drive multi‑org programs, partner with senior ICs and directors, and shape infrastructure to scale with AI‑driven workloads.

Ideal candidates bring 12+ years in TPM or related roles, deep technical grounding in data systems and cloud infra, and a track record of delivering complex migrations at scale.