Engineering Manager, Guest Displays and Platform

The Community You Will Join:

The Guest Displays & Platforms team owns the main product details page (PDP) for Stays and Experiences as well as all Pricing & Availability (P&A) capabilities across all guest-facing surfaces.  Our work is at the heart of the Airbnb guest UX, so we work very closely with many teams, including Search, Checkout, Listings, Users, Host Settings, Payments, Tax, Cities, and Trust to create a seamless experience.

The Difference You Will Make:

Lead engineering planning and delivery of a wide range of new and improved guest-facing features and capabilities powering Airbnb’s core lines of business.  Build a strong and diverse team capable of turning ambitious product visions into a polished reality.  Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production.

A Typical Day: 

• Work with product, design and other stakeholders to determine and document requirements
• Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and capabilities
• Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain product quality and system health
• Distill and communicate deliverable plans and celebrate shipping
• Hire and coach exceptional engineering talent, spending lots of time one-on-one to understand underlying motivations and dynamics

Your Expertise:

• 3-5+ years of engineering management experience, with 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Expertise with both backend and client (iOS, Android, Web) systems in large-scale consumer applications
• Excellent communication and presentation skills tuned for both technical or non-technical audiences
• End-to-end, product-oriented mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• Strong collaboration skills, able to work effectively and find common ground with a wide range of teams who may have conflicting goals and priorities

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.