Engineering Manager, Host Pricing - Product UI Foundation

Airbnb

77d • $204,000 - $255,000

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. 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Base pay range of $204,000—$255,000 USD.
• Bonus eligibility.
• Equity options.
• Employee Travel Credits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees