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Airbnb

Lead Platform Manager, Tech Foundations

Airbnb

. Own product areas and end-to-end workflows that determine developer productivity .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $232,000 - $282,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive product management experience with a focus on developer productivity, technical architecture, and cross-functional collaboration. Capable of defining metrics, shaping product roadmaps, and influencing outcomes across organizational boundaries.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Product Management ExperienceDeveloper Productivity ImprovementTechnical Architecture UnderstandingAI-Powered Developer WorkflowsCross-Functional Team Leadership

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Hard Skills
Product Requirements Document CreationBusiness Requirements Document CreationMetrics Definition and OperationalizationCI/CDBuild SystemsTestingDeploymentDeveloper ToolingInfrastructure ProductsPlatform Products
Soft Skills
Influencing Without AuthorityEffective CommunicationStorytelling SkillsEntrepreneurial DriveUnderstanding Customer Goals
Industry Keywords
DORASPACEDevExDeveloper ExperienceOrganizational Boundaries

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own product areas and end-to-end workflows that determine developer productivity
  • Understand developer journeys, identify breakdowns, and drive fixes across organizational boundaries
  • Define developer productivity at Airbnb and establish metrics, instrumentation, and qualitative research
  • Shape product roadmaps with business stakeholders, product marketing, and technical program managers
  • Create and own Product Requirements Documents and Business Requirements Documents
  • Partner with engineers, designers, data scientists, and field-operations teams to scale solutions
  • Establish product vision and northstar for the area
  • Map and improve developer workflows across infrastructure, reliability engineering, and developer experience
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, TPM, and Data Science to define success criteria and measurable objectives and key results
  • Develop product roadmaps and align prioritization and timelines with business goals
  • Influence teams without direct ownership to prioritize developer productivity work
  • Understand Airbnb engineering workflows and technical architecture
  • Execute efficiently to ship products and deliver business and user impact
  • Lead cross-functional groups and act as the system voice
  • Communicate concisely and influence outcomes at all organizational levels

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of product management experience building tools and platforms for technical users, including developer tooling, infrastructure, or platform products
  • Track record of improving developer or engineering productivity, with measurements to prove it
  • Experience defining and operationalizing metrics for hard-to-quantify outcomes
  • Strong understanding of technical architecture for complex and highly scalable systems
  • Understanding of modern AI-powered developer workflows, including AI-assisted development, code review, CI/CD, build systems, testing, and deployment
  • Ability to drive outcomes across organizational boundaries without direct authority
  • Ability to understand customer goals and needs and build products that meet them
  • Entrepreneurial drive and ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams
  • Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical partners
  • Ability to prioritize and scope user requests and platform capabilities
  • Storytelling skills connecting problems to a compelling vision
  • Previous experience as a software engineer or working extremely closely with engineering teams is a strong plus
  • Familiarity with DORA, SPACE, or DevEx frameworks is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Equity eligibility
  • Benefits eligibility
  • Employee Travel Credits
  • Remote-eligible work arrangement
  • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager
  • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities