Senior Manager - Technical Program Management (Infrastructure)

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where people can belong anywhere. As we continue to grow and pursue that mission, we’re seeking a technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Senior Manager of Technical Program Management (TPM).

As a Senior Manager of TPM, you will partner with our Infrastructure organization which provides a cohesive set of foundational technology offerings that enable Airbnb to easily deliver and support scalable, data-powered, and global products. You will also partner with our Central Data team whose mission is to transform data into knowledge & intelligence while leveraging governance to ensure we act responsibly. Lastly, working with our Privacy team, you will help Airbnb comply with data protection, privacy laws and obligations around the world..

The Difference You Will Make:

This role is deeply cross-functional, with projects spanning a wide surface area. Building positive relationships across a multitude of technical teams will be essential to your success as a leader. This role will also:

• Lead Complex Technical Programs & AI Transformation: Drive the predictable and impactful delivery of complex technical programs, particularly those focused on system integration and infrastructure. This involves leveraging deep AI fluency and advanced software architecture skills to implement AI-driven processes and tools for hypothesis testing, design validation, and requirements synthesis to accelerate development cycles.

• Technical Execution & Proactive Quality: Oversee technical execution at a granular level, manage architectural dependencies and mitigate engineering risks. This includes deploying and championing AI-powered solutions for efficient bug triage, predictive root cause analysis, automated testing, and enhancing overall code quality and architectural health within the infrastructure domain.

• Strategic Technical Problem Solving: Proactively identify and resolve technical risks, manage technical debt, and ensure adherence to best practices in a complex, multi-system environment, with specific expertise in cloud infrastructure and MLOps.

A Typical Day: 

• Collaborate with leaders across the company to manage and continuously optimize delivery activities and processes.  Create alignment on strategies and roadmaps, and ensure effective prioritization / trade-offs against overall strategy and organizational constraints

• Maintain a portfolio view of programs and ensure senior leadership has sufficient visibility into execution status, issues, and decisions to ensure continued alignment 

• Partner with cross-functional leaders to proactively understand their needs and opportunities for your team; offer a strategic perspective, sound judgment, and attention to detail to aid in achieving practical business impact

• Build and maintain a high-performance culture- you will be responsible for developing a team of TPMs, providing continual feedback, coaching and career growth for direct reports 

• Help scale your team's impact by favoring automation over manual work, setting realistic goals and expectations with stakeholders, and up-leveling TPM skills 

• Provide executional guidance and support for your team’s projects by helping simplify the technically complex, unblocking teams, identifying risks and opportunities

• Partner with your peers leading other TPM teams to strengthen the craft

• As needed, hands on management of large, complex, strategic programs

Your Expertise:

• 13+ years of experience with building and managing a team of Technical Program Managers within the Infrastructure technology domain. 

• Strong technical program management background, with demonstrated experience leading large projects across multiple software teams. 

• Experience leading and mentoring a team of TPMs, creating a culture of inclusiveness and sustainability 

• Organizational leadership, with an ability to collaborate with and influence teams across boundaries

• Self-motivated, curious, proactive with a proven ability to adapt well and work with teams having different operating cadences.

• Experience working in a highly cross-functional environment where communication with multiple groups is imperative

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.