Senior Engineering Manager, Airbnb
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$244-304k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$244-304k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of industry experience with 7+ years of management experience in a fast paced tech environment in a fast paced tech environment
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and teams across the engineering organization
- Passionate about building intuitive and delightful products to solve real user problems while maintaining a high technical quality bar
- Proven experience helping engineers achieve their personal and professional goals
- Strong problem solver that has led a team operating large scale, mission critical production systems
- Bonus: Expertise building & operating Booking related systems
What the job involves
- In addition to working with other engineering organizations such as Payments and Trust, you will be responsible for closely collaborating with cross-functional partners in Product Marketing, Design, and Data Science
- As a Bookings & Pricing Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a full-stack team of talented, diverse software developers to enable and optimize a best in class Booking experience that scales across all of Airbnb’s current and future product offerings
- As an Engineering Manager, you will develop a deep understanding of both our Guests’ needs and our technical systems to create and deliver a viable technical vision, proactively influence cross-functional partners and teams to align on deliverables that meet our Guests’ needs while improving the technical quality of the Booking system, and lead a team of highly motivated engineers to help them achieve their personal and professional goals
- Lead the organizational and technical direction of the team
- Proactively share context to help the team connect the dots of their work with broader company initiatives
- Build a robust team by attracting top talent, mentoring individuals and regularly providing feedback
- Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
- Collaborate with internal teams and cross-functional partners across Bookings, Payments and Trust to gain agreement by developing and communicating a clear and impactful vision and priorities for the team
- Implement a execution framework that detects problems early and enables thoughtful planning, tracking and reporting on the work of the team
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
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back within 2 weeks
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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