Engineering Manager, Airbnb
Marketing Technology
$200-254k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-254k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5+ years of engineering management experience, with 9+ years of of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
- Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depends on the situation
- Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact
- Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability
- Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
- Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders
- Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment
- Able to identify, retain, grow and acquire critical talent
What the job involves
- This role specifically is to lead the Orchestration and Segmentation platform (OSP) team under Marketing technology
- The OSP team is responsible for building mission critical applications that allow marketers and product managers across Airbnb to send millions of notifications every day to hundreds of millions of Airbnb users daily
- The OSP team also owns the Audience platform which allows users to segment the Airbnb user base across hundreds of available attributes to allow for precise targeting for different campaigns
- Be a visionary in helping build the next generation of the Orchestration and Segmentation platform for Airbnb
- Drive the team’s technical strategy by combining a strategic understanding of our highest level product goals with a deep understanding of our existing systems to inform the right technical and product tradeoffs for both short and long term
- Lead a team of highly motivated engineers to help them achieve their personal and professional goals
- Partner closely with Product managers, TPMs, Marketing operations and other engineering managers across Airbnb to build and execute on the team’s roadmap
- Optimizing team operation to empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability and simplicity (planning, prioritization, knowledge distribution, design review, incidents response, etc)
- Championing Airbnb’s culture of belonging
- Hiring and coaching the engineering talent on your team
- Support the team to set and meet their goals with a high level of fit and finish
- Showcase the team’s work in front of senior leaders, clearly communicate trade-offs, risks and opportunities to a broad set of stakeholders
- Proactively share context with the team, help the team connect the dots of their work with broader company initiatives
- Be able to answer questions about ongoing initiatives, architecture and systems, staffing situations
- Have regular 1:1s and meaningful career conversations with your reports
- Have the technical acumen to partner with tech leads and are comfortable helping drive incident resolution and deliver continuous improvement to team’s foundational goals
- Lead or contribute to efforts that help boost diversity and belonging on the team and beyond
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
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.
Insights
Some candidates hear
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
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Founders
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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