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
Lead execution of a project with a defined scope and approach, turning: direction from your manager or senior TPMs into a concrete, realistic plan built around known constraints.
Break work into trackable pieces and use input and output metrics to monitor: progress, surfacing slippage before it becomes a problem.
Lead alignment of the project team and hold contributors accountable to: deliverables and milestones, while anticipating the next set of work.
Consult team members or leaders to identify risks and mitigation options;: track and manage risks you've already identified through to resolution.
Communicate the project's vision and success criteria clearly to your project: team and stakeholders, and re-evaluate strategy with guidance from leadership on when to pivot versus stay the course.
Ask the right questions to surface potential technical gaps, working: collaboratively with engineers and applying a working understanding of sound technical principles.
What they're looking for
- Actively participate in cultural and functional excellence activities—such as: Connect apprenticeship (curriculum contribution, mentorship), diversity and inclusion programming (Airfinity, Blocking Bias training), or hackathons—and demonstrate Airbnb's core values in everyday interactions.
- Scope Management: Partners with the team to define boundaries and milestones against program objectives, enabling informed trade-off conversations and preventing scope creep across teams.
- Schedule Management: Breaks work into sized, sequenced pieces with clear dependencies, builds a schedule with technical partners, and communicates changes as they arise.
- Quality – Establishes the expected level of quality during planning and: treats it as a fixed constraint alongside schedule and scope.
