Lead Platform Manager, Tech Foundations

As a Lead Product Manager for Developer Productivity at Airbnb, you will own the product areas developers rely on and the end-to-end workflows that determine how productive engineers are.

Your goal will be to understand the end-to-end developer journey, identify where it breaks, and drive the work to fix it.

Key responsibilities:

• Establish product vision and northstar for your area and connect it to the broader developer productivity strategy
• Own cross-cutting developer workflows end to end, mapping where they break and driving changes to improve them
• Define how to measure developer productivity, building metrics, instrumentation, and qualitative research
• Partner with Engineering, Product, TPM, and Data Science to understand goals and establish success criteria
• Develop the product roadmap and get alignment on prioritization and timelines
• Influence teams you don't own, building the case and bringing data to get other groups to prioritize developer productivity work
• Develop a deep understanding of how Airbnb's engineers work day to day and of the technical architecture underneath
• Execute efficiently to ship products and deliver impact

Requirements:

• 10+ years of product management experience building tools and platforms for technical users
• Track record of improving developer or engineering productivity
• Experience defining and operationalizing metrics for hard-to-quantify outcomes
• Strong understanding of technical architecture for complex and highly scalable systems
• Demonstrated ability to drive outcomes across organizational boundaries without direct authority
• Ability to understand immediate and longer-term customer goals and needs
• 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
• Previous experience as a software engineer or working closely with engineering teams is a strong plus

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with developer productivity research and frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DevEx)
• Storytelling skills that connect the problem you're solving to a compelling vision