# Senior Program Manager, Design

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,000-$154,000 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63327

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## Description

Airbnb's Design Operations team ensures the Design organization runs effectively and at scale, enabling teams to deliver products that are usable, lovable, and globally impactful.

As a Senior Design Program Manager, you will drive the end-to-end program management of a design team focused on delivering critical product initiatives. You will scope, plan, execute, and launch programs that directly impact Airbnb's hosts and guests while aligning closely with roadmap commitments.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with Design Managers, Directors, and cross-functional leaders to align on program scope, timelines, goals and deliverables.

- Establish operating rhythms across design teams, including communication cadences, resource planning, and leadership check-ins.

- Support the planning and execution of quarterly and annual product launches, ensuring design workstreams are delivered with quality and on time.

- Serve as the bridge across Design, Engineering, Product Marketing, Business teams and other key cross-functional partners, ensuring visibility, communication, and risk management.

- Anticipate and resolve obstacles across teams, proactively elevating risks and implementing solutions.

- Uphold design standards and best practices by driving consistent adoption of the design process & tools and continuously refining workflows to improve quality and efficiency.

Requirements:

- 7+ years of experience in Consulting, Program Management, Product/Project Management, or related fields.

- Proven ability to manage and deliver impactful design initiatives in large digital product organizations.

- Strong track record in navigating ambiguity, structuring solutions, and driving initiatives from conception through launch.

- Strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term thinking with near-term execution.

- Demonstrated leadership in mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

- Experience establishing systems and scalable processes where little exists, with a flexible, solutions-oriented mindset.

- Passion for organizational excellence, detail orientation, and thriving in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment.

- Deep appreciation for the Product Design process and experience working within cross-functional, product-driven organizations.

Benefits:

- The base pay range is $132,000-$154,000 USD.

- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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## Skills

### Required
- Program Management
- Design Operations
- Product Management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Leadership
- Communication
- Risk Management

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