Staff Platform Manager, Community Experience Platforms

The Community You Will Join: 

Airbnb is a vision and mission driven company. Our Product Managers (PMs) embody this culture and mindset. Platform Product Managers here imagine the ideal end state for our community (guests and hosts) first, work backwards from it, and deliver the vision in a scalable way. They champion a winning strategy and leverage metrics to ensure we are making progress against it. They partner with talented cross-functional team members (across product marketing, engineering, design, analytics, etc.) and lead teams to execute upon a shared vision.  We are looking for leaders who want to join us in this journey to accomplish our mission of creating belonging everywhere.

The Difference You Will Make:

A support journey starts from the moment a guest or a host reaches out for help and ends when his/her challenge is resolved. PMs at Community Experience Platform lead cross team collaborations and deliver best-of-the-class support experience and platform capabilities. Keen eyes on great user experience, strong collaboration and influence skills are must-haves to thrive as  a PM in Community Experience Platform. The Senior Platform Product Manager, Community Experience Platform will be responsible for major experience platforms that power Airbnb’s support experiences. The successful candidate will lead high profile projects and work collaboratively across multiple cross functional teams across the company.

A Typical Day: 

• Understand the competitive landscape. Challenge the status quo. Influence design and product marketing team and inspire people towards a unified outcome. 
• Define success with clearly measurable objectives and key results. 
• Define a winning product strategy and create a sound roadmap.
• Align the vision, OKR, strategy and roadmap with senior leaders and stakeholders across the company. 
• Prioritize work based on inputs from many stakeholders, while being flexible to iterate/change. 
• Maintain product backlog and the product roadmap.
• Partner with senior tech leads and execute the vision with cross function leaders from multiple teams. 
• Present product roadmap and status to the leadership on an ongoing basis.

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years of product management, or product design experience ( at least 5 out of the 8 years in a product management role).
• Exceptional communication skills. Being able to adapt communication style for different types of audiences.
• Ability to appreciate and articulate great user experience. 
• Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and communicate them to a non-technical audience.
• Outcome-oriented. Articulates the desired outcome and works collaboratively to create a path to achieve it.
• Experience working with partners beyond just one’s immediate cross functional team in a product management or business role.
• Radical thinking paired with strong execution. Can envision a world different from the status quo with the ability to articulate a clear path to get there.

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: [email protected]. 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.