Job description
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.
The Community You Will Join:
Airbnb is powered by our Host and Guest communities. Our teams work on everything from driving improvements for the end-to-end Host and Guest experience to launching new product verticals from the ground up. Our job is to build world-class, comprehensive platforms and features to create high quality experiences for our outstanding community of Hosts and Guests.
The Host Pricing org is forming a dedicated Frontend team to drive architecture and client experiences across pricing, availability, and guidance surfaces. This team will build and maintain reusable, cross-platform design systems and custom surfaces, enabling Airbnb to deliver consistent and high-quality experiences for both hosts and guests.
As an Engineering Manager, you will partner closely with product, design, and cross-functional engineering teams to shape the foundation of our client-facing architecture. You will bring leadership and technical expertise across Web, iOS, and Android platforms while advocating for scalable patterns such as GraphQL and modern design system practices.
The Difference You Will Make:
- Build a new team: Lead a newly created group of 10 client engineers (3 Android, 3 iOS, 4 Web) spun out from two existing teams, providing clarity of mission and ownership of Airbnb’s Host Pricing frontend architecture.
- Advance frontend architecture: Establish a sustainable architecture across surfaces (pricing, availability, guidance) and advocate for GraphQL-driven patterns to unify client experience.
- Shape design systems: Lead the development of Airbnb’s pricing design system, including reusable, customizable, and cross-platform frontend components that will serve as the foundation for scalable UI delivery.
A Typical Day:
As an Engineering Manager on the Host Pricing, Product UI Foundation team, you will:
- Partner with designers and engineers to define design language systems and ensure consistent implementation across Web, iOS, and Android.
- Drive technical direction for frontend surfaces, balancing performance, scalability, and usability.
- Coach, mentor, and grow a team of client engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that pricing and availability experiences are reliable, performant, and visually cohesive.
- Collaborate with other senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture that enables the company’s future vision.
- Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions.
- Collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality products.
- Lead team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems.
- Lead conversations that align technical efforts with business outcomes and product priorities.
- Nurture a culture of technical quality and engineering excellence from design, through code review, to production.
- Enable and empower ICs to grow their impact beyond individual contributions, creating opportunities for them to lead technical initiatives that span across platforms and organizations.
- Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers. Build a strong and diverse team capable of turning ambitious product visions into a polished reality.
Your Expertise:
- 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team and 9+ years of overall relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
- Strong expertise in leading client teams across native iOS, Android, and Frontend Web domains.
- Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners.
- Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending 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.
- 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.
- Strong commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within teams.
Your Location:
This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
How We’ll Take Care of You:
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Pay Range
$204,000—$255,000 USD
