Airbnb
Senior Manager, Technical Program Management (Search & AI Foundations)
$232K–$282K
United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 21, 2026
- Experience
- 13+ years in technical program management, including at least 8 years managing a team of TPMs.
About the job
Leads technical program management for Airbnb’s Search and AI Platforms initiatives, aligning teams and driving delivery of search, recommendation, and machine-learning infrastructure capabilities.
What you'll do
- Set project direction, success criteria, priorities, and risk-mitigation plans for AI initiatives.
- Align engineering, product, and other stakeholders; manage dependencies, ambiguity, and roadblocks.
- Communicate progress, trade-offs, outcomes, and risks to stakeholders and senior leadership.
What they ask for
- 13+ years in technical program management.
- At least 8 years managing a team of TPMs.
- Demonstrated experience in search relevance, natural language search, and recommendation systems.
- Experience with ML models, LLMs, LRMs, feature development, model testing, and resource management.
Nice to have
- Experience applying GenAI/LLM technologies to search.
- Familiarity with A/B testing, incremental delivery, and deployment.
Pay
$232,000 — $282,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
ML models, LLMs, LRMs, A/B testing
AI focus
Leads AI platform initiatives spanning search relevance, machine-learning infrastructure, and search knowledge infrastructure; supports search ranking, recommendations, personalization, and AI-powered product experiences.
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