Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb, founded in 2007, has grown to connect over 5 million hosts with guests across the globe. They are seeking a Senior Manager of Technical Program Management for their Infrastructure team to lead AI Platforms initiatives, collaborating with engineering and product teams to enhance data-driven decision making.
Responsibilities
- Shape and influence the technical direction of projects, ensuring we meet stakeholder needs while maintaining high-quality standards
- Rapidly prototype and validate project ideas through iterative development cycles, adapting as necessary based on insights and data
- Balance broad, outcome-driven thinking with attention to critical details, exercising sound judgment to prioritize where deep focus is necessary to ensure successful execution
- Define and secure stakeholder alignment on clear, measurable success criteria to accelerate AI initiatives
- Regularly assess risks and opportunities, and devise proactive mitigation strategies to maintain momentum and project success
- Maintain transparent and effective communication channels to keep stakeholders informed of progress, developments, and challenges
- Expertly present outcomes and updates to senior leadership, clearly and comprehensively articulating trade-offs, risks, and emerging opportunities
Skills
- 13+ years in technical program management function, with at least 8 years of experience leading and mentoring a team of TPMs, creating a culture of inclusiveness and sustainability
- Demonstrated experience in search relevance, natural language search, and recommendation systems. Experience with applying GenAI/LLM technologies on search is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions. You can take a vague problem, crisply frame the challenge, identify a path forward, and drive an initiative over the finish-line
- Self-motivated, proactive and proven ability to adapt well and work with teams having different operating cadences
- Sound business judgment, a proven ability to influence others, strong analytical skills, and a track record of taking ownership, leading data driven analyses, and influencing results
- Experience with ML models, LLMs, LRMs, feature development, model testing and resource management to support the development of AI-powered product experiences
- Familiar with A/B testing, incremental delivery and deployment
- Ability to ramp up quickly and learn new technologies with minimal lag time
- Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
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