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Lead strategy and business operations programs for Airbnb’s Services & Membership team. Develop growth strategies, analyze marketplace performance using SQL, Excel, and Tableau, identify and test growth opportunities, build decision-support tools, and partner with product, marketing, data science, finance, and partnerships teams. Manage complex cross-functional workstreams, communicate business performance, and scale successful initiatives across geographies.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for foundational data engineering and analytics engineering. Owns multi-year data architecture, production pipelines, dimensional models, and trusted metrics spanning cloud costs, traffic, infrastructure, and AI usage. Designs new datasets integrating cost, utilization, performance, and reliability signals; establishes standards, coaches engineers, aligns stakeholders, and drives adoption across Infrastructure, Finance, Data Science, and Product Engineering.

Lead strategic finance and analytics for Airbnb’s incubation businesses. Build investment cases, financial models, forecasts, reporting frameworks, funnel analytics, unit economics, and capital allocation recommendations. Evaluate growth opportunities, returns, scalability, and business performance, then present clear recommendations to senior leadership. Partner cross-functionally with business, product, and analytics leaders in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Leads Airbnb’s technical brand and content function, including the Tech Blog, cross-team engineering narratives, executive and engineer voices, distribution, conferences, academic and media relationships, open source presence, budgets, and vendors. Partners with Talent Acquisition to measure impact on senior engineering hiring. Requires technical fluency, strong editorial judgment, program discipline, stakeholder influence, risk management, and experience working directly with engineers.

Leads architecture and development of highly available, distributed backend systems supporting Airbnb’s AirCover insurance platform. Owns policy, coverage, enrollment, regional rules, experimentation, and scalable multi-region capabilities. Partners with product, data science, legal, and engineering teams; analyzes conversion data; ensures auditability, privacy, reliability, and data integrity; mentors engineers; and applies emerging technologies such as LLMs where beneficial.

Build and operate production machine learning systems for Airbnb Payments, including LLM agents, real-time fraud detection, anomaly detection, personalization, and checkout optimization. Design, train, deploy, monitor, and continuously improve batch and streaming AI applications at global scale. Partner with product, engineering, operations, and data science teams, establish model governance and testing standards, and mentor engineers.

Lead UX writing and content design for Airbnb’s AI-powered products. Create product copy, train and evaluate large language models, establish content guidelines and quality standards, and build scalable writing systems. Partner with Design, Product, Engineering, Legal, accessibility, and localization teams from concept through launch. Present work to executives, drive stakeholder consensus, manage multiple projects, and mentor the broader UX Writing team through critiques and strategic leadership.

Own Airbnb’s internal platform strategy and roadmap for Supply operations tooling, including case and workforce management systems. Translate operational workflows into scalable, measurable products; design AI and human-in-the-loop processes; define requirements; write product briefs; and drive delivery, adoption, and outcomes across engineering, product marketing, operations, and senior leadership. Manage capacity planning, queue distribution, forecasting, SLAs, performance measurement, and build-versus-buy decisions.

As a Staff Software Engineer in Infrastructure, you will lead a team in building high-performance, distributed systems, guide project direction, mentor engineers, and improve data ingestion architecture.

Leads product strategy for developer productivity platforms and end-to-end engineering workflows. Defines the product vision, roadmap, metrics, instrumentation, and success criteria; improves developer experiences across infrastructure, reliability, security, and developer tooling. Creates PRDs and BRDs, aligns cross-functional teams, influences roadmaps without direct authority, and delivers scalable platform solutions for technical users.