About the position
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. Our mission at Marketing Technology is to provide a state-of-the-art platform and measurement capabilities to enable marketing and product teams to engage with our customers effectively. Every day, millions of Airbnb customers are reached via our streamlined platform over comprehensive channels, such as Email, Push, SMS, and external Ads Platforms (e.g., Google, Facebook, etc). We deliver substantial business impact by enabling numerous stakeholders across the company, including Marketing (Brand and Performance), Guest/Host, Policy, and more.
Responsibilities
- Design the future state of our platform and systems by incorporating product-first mentality of our users and their end-to-end workflows
- Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions
- Participate in the development of product and UX requirements by engaging early and often with designers, product managers and Marketing stakeholders to help steer teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals
- Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
- Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
- Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
- Collaborate with internal teams across Marketing Technologies, ML, Growth Marketing, and Creative
Requirements
- 9+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy and mentoring engineers
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality
- Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment
- Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership
Nice-to-haves
- Bonus - if you’ve worked in Marketing Technologies
Benefits
- Base pay range of $204,000—$255,000 USD
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity options
- Employee Travel Credits
