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Salary: USD 232,000 - 282,000 / annual
Airbnb is seeking a Lead Product Manager for Developer Productivity to own the product areas and end-to-end workflows that determine how productive the engineering organization is. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, and security—requiring you to understand developer journeys that cross organizational boundaries and drive improvements whether or not the fix lives in your teams.
You will define what developer productivity means at Airbnb, instrument it with metrics, and be accountable for moving the needle. Working with business stakeholders, product marketing, and technical program managers, you will shape the roadmap for developer tools and infrastructure products, bringing together disparate offerings into a cohesive strategy. You will create and own Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) and Business Requirements Documents (BRDs) to inform technical decisions, and partner with engineers, designers, data scientists, and field-operations teams to scale solutions across business segments.
Key responsibilities include: establishing product vision and northstar metrics for developer productivity; owning cross-cutting developer workflows end-to-end and identifying where they break across pillars like App & Cloud Infrastructure, Reliability Engineering, and Developer Experience; defining how to measure developer productivity through metrics, instrumentation, and qualitative research; partnering with Engineering, Product, TPM, and Data Science to establish success criteria and OKRs; developing and aligning on product roadmaps and prioritization; influencing teams you don't directly own by building the case with data; developing deep understanding of Airbnb's engineering workflows and technical architecture; executing efficiently to ship products and deliver business impact; leading cross-functional groups as the system voice; and communicating with strong executive presence across all organizational levels.
This is a remote-eligible position within the US, with occasional office work or offsites as agreed with your manager. You must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity (check the careers page for excluded states).
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of product management experience building tools and platforms for technical users (developer tooling, infrastructure, or platform products)
- Track record of improving developer or engineering productivity, with measurements to prove it
- Experience defining and operationalizing metrics for hard-to-quantify outcomes—knowing when quantitative vs. qualitative metrics matter
- Strong understanding of technical architecture for complex, highly scalable systems and modern AI-powered developer workflows (AI-assisted development, code review, CI/CD, build systems, testing, deployment)
- Demonstrated ability to drive outcomes across organizational boundaries without direct authority—influencing roadmaps you don't own
- Ability to understand immediate and longer-term customer goals and build products that meet them
- Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams to align on vision and strategy
- Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical partners at all levels
- Ability to prioritize and scope user requests and platform capabilities, balancing long-term vision against short-term pain points
- Strong storytelling skills connecting problems to compelling vision, with willingness to dive into details
PLUS (not required):
- Previous experience as a software engineer or working extremely closely with engineering teams
- Familiarity with developer productivity research and frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DevEx)
