Engineering Manager, Guest & Host

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Community You Will Join:</strong></span></p> <p>We are building tools and a global community to make it easier for people to host on Airbnb. Our team focuses on co-hosting and building intuitive, user-facing experiences that enable people to host together as a team, using machine learning where appropriate to address real user needs. The team works collaboratively with cross-functional partners in Design, Product Management, Business and other Engineering teams to quickly brainstorm, prototype, develop, and deliver high quality product experiences.</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Difference You Will Make:</strong></span></p> <p>As the Engineering Manager, within Guest &amp; Host Services, you’ll lead a team of talented, diverse software developers to prototype, build and improve hosting services, balancing the shorter term business outcomes along with longer term technical stability, scalability and flexibility aligning with cross functional partners.</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>A Typical Day:&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Collaborate with engineers to plan and sequence the delivery of new features and capabilities, making necessary trade-offs, while effectively communicating the delivery plans and celebrating successful launches</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Partner with peer engineering teams to integrate new features that impact different areas within the product</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Strengthen the team’s partnerships with key stakeholders in Engineering, Design, and Product to make ambitious pro