Airbnb
Lead Platform Manager, Tech Foundations
$232K–$282K
United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of product management experience.
About the job
Leads product strategy and end-to-end workflows for developer productivity, improving the tools, infrastructure, and engineering processes developers rely on.
What you'll do
- Set the product vision, roadmap, and measurable success criteria for developer productivity.
- Map and improve cross-functional developer workflows, coordinating changes across infrastructure, reliability, and developer experience teams.
- Define productivity metrics and instrumentation, and influence teams across the organization to prioritize improvements.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of product management experience building tools and platforms for technical users.
- Track record of improving developer or engineering productivity, supported by measurements.
- Strong understanding of architecture for complex, highly scalable systems and modern AI-powered developer workflows.
- Ability to influence roadmaps across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
Nice to have
- Previous experience as a software engineer, or working extremely closely with engineering teams.
- Familiarity with developer productivity research and frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DevEx).
Pay
$232,000 — $282,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AI-assisted development, code review, CI/CD, build systems, testing, deployment, DORA, SPACE
AI focus
Understand modern AI-powered developer workflows, including AI-assisted development, and build products that improve developer productivity.
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