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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.

Staff Backend Engineer responsible for building data and machine learning systems that provide competitive travel-market intelligence. The role involves setting technical strategy, designing APIs and backend architecture, prototyping solutions, partnering with product and ML engineers, conducting design and code reviews, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

Lead Infrastructure Technical Program Management across Data Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering, and Developer Experience. Manage multi-quarter platform migrations, reliability and deployment-safety programs, AI-scale infrastructure initiatives, efficiency efforts, and planning rhythms. Define success metrics, manage risks and dependencies, align senior stakeholders, and communicate outcomes. Hire, coach, and develop senior TPMs while establishing operating standards for execution and portfolio reporting.

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.

Own the global operating strategy for Airbnb’s hotel supply optimization program. Develop pricing, discount, segmentation, reporting, forecasting, incentive, and performance frameworks for Account Management teams. Analyze data, build models, identify adoption and performance opportunities, and provide recommendations to senior leadership. Partner cross-functionally with Account Management, Product, Marketing, Analytics, Finance, and regional teams to improve hotel supply quality, revenue, and program adoption worldwide.

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.

Manage Airbnb’s supplier onboarding and risk management programs, including tools, processes, compliance monitoring, and supplier experience improvements. Lead procurement technology implementations and transformational initiatives, collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Security, Sourcing, and operations teams, and provide expertise in source-to-pay, regulatory assessment, automation, AI, and procurement transformation. Measure operational health, communicate risks and progress, and recommend process enhancements aligned with business needs.

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.