Senior Program Manager Design

📋 Description

• Drive consistency in design team operating rhythm, including communication structures, project templates, leadership cadence, and resource utilization
• Initiate internal initiatives that significantly improve the Design org’s operations and cross-functional ways of working
• Optimize interaction models between Product Marketing, Engineering, Design, Creative, and Marketing, influencing cross-functionally to identify opportunity, unlock productivity, and accelerate execution
• Drive continuous improvement leveraging lessons learned from teams to celebrate successes as well as identify ways to improve
• Identify and predict obstacles, collisions, and risk to projects across multiple teams and seek solutions to eliminate them
• Inspire, develop, and challenge Airbnb's Design Program Management team, modeling excellence

🎯 Requirements

• BA/BS with 9+ years Consulting, Program Management, Product Management, Project Management or relevant experience
• 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
• Track record of managing and shipping impactful design initiatives in a large digital product org
• Experience in budgeting and operating design programs; strong cross-functional collaboration with design, product, engineering, and marketing
• Demonstrated leadership skills in mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution
• Proven ability to build strong relationships and influence business leaders

🎁 Benefits

• Remote eligible in the US with occasional office attendance as agreed with your manager
• Competitive compensation with bonus, equity, and benefits; Employee Travel Credits
• Pay transparency with a published pay range in the job post
• Eligibility to work from states Airbnb has entities in, per policy