Lead Platform Manager (Tech Foundations)

Join Airbnb as a Lead Platform Manager for Developer Productivity. In this role, you will own the product areas that developers rely on and drive the end-to-end workflows that determine engineer productivity. You will define what developer productivity means at Airbnb, shape the roadmap for these products, and partner with cross-functional teams to scale solutions across business segments. This position requires 10+ years of product management experience and a strong understanding of technical architecture for complex systems.

Strong understanding of technical architecture for complex and highly scalable systems, and of modern AI-powered developer workflows: AI-assisted development, code review, CI/CD, build systems, testing, deployment

Responsibilities

• Establish product vision and northstar for your area, and connect it into the broader developer productivity strategy.
• Own cross-cutting developer workflows end to end — mapping where they break across pillars like App & Cloud Infra, Reliability Engineering, and Developer Experience, and driving the changes that improve them.
• Define how we measure developer productivity: build the metrics, instrumentation, and qualitative research that tell us whether engineers' lives are actually getting better.
• Ability to understand immediate and longer-term customer goals and needs, and build products that meet them

Requirements

• Track record of improving developer or engineering productivity, with the measurements to prove it
• Experience defining and operationalizing metrics for hard-to-quantify outcomes — when quantitative metrics are needed and matter, and when qualitative metrics may or may not be more impactful
• Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical partners at every level of the organization
• Familiarity with developer productivity research and frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DevEx) is a plus
• Storytelling skills that connect the problem you’re solving to a compelling vision, coupled with a willingness to dive into the details
• Ability to prioritize and scope user requests and platform capabilities, balancing long-term vision against short-term pain points
• Demonstrated ability to drive outcomes across organizational boundaries without direct authority — influencing roadmaps you don't own
• Previous experience as a software engineer, or working extremely closely with engineering teams, is a strong plus
• 10+ years of product management experience building tools and platforms for technical users — developer tooling, infrastructure, or platform products
• Entrepreneurial drive, and demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams to align on a vision and product strategy

Pay

USD 232,000 - 282,000