The opportunity
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences…
What you'll do
Establish product vision and northstar for your area, and connect it into the: broader developer productivity strategy
Own 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
Define how we measure developer productivity: build the metrics, instrumentation, and qualitative research that tell us whether engineers' lives are actually getting better
Partner with Engineering, Product, TPM, and Data Science to understand goals: and establish success criteria with clearly measurable objectives and key results
Develop the product roadmap, and get alignment on prioritization and timelines to meet business goals
Influence teams you don't own: build the case, bring the data, and get other groups to prioritize developer productivity work alongside their own roadmaps
What they're looking for
- Develop 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
- Execute efficiently to ship products and deliver impact for our business and users.
- Lead cross-functional groups to fulfill the team’s mission, acting as the system voice.
- Communicate concisely and influence outcomes at all levels of the: organization, demonstrating strong executive presence.
