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Salary: USD 212,000 - 265,000 / annual
Airbnb's Dev AI team builds foundational AI tooling and infrastructure that powers developer productivity across the entire software development lifecycle. The team serves as both a platform team and an internal AI consultancy, providing building blocks for teams across the company to create domain-specific AI tools.
In this Manager role, you will shape and execute the technical direction of the team's infrastructure and products. You'll work across agentic coding tools, asynchronous AI workflow platforms, SDKs for rapid internal AI app development, and AI-assisted code migration. Your work will directly accelerate innovation across Airbnb's entire product surface by making developers' lives easier and more enjoyable.
Key responsibilities include:
- Help shape and drive the AI for Developers strategy, partnering with Staff and Senior Staff engineers on architecture trade-offs and product direction
- Stay current on the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape and help the team balance innovation with measurable developer impact
- Serve as a champion, expert, coach, and consultant to empower teams and leaders across the company to adopt and leverage new AI capabilities
- Foster relationships with partner teams and stakeholders, crafting working agreements
- Coach and mentor the team with empathy to do their best work while growing in their roles and responsibilities
- Contribute to the broader organization's culture and processes
The team is collaborative, low-ego, and highly-visible, valuing experimentation, learning, and shipping. You'll operate with startup-like agility, iterating swiftly to evaluate and incorporate the most recent AI technologies into developer tooling.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 2+ years of experience as a full-time manager
- Experience supporting and coaching Staff+ (ideally multiple) and Senior engineers
- Experience managing a remote/distributed team
- Prior experience building developer infrastructure, tooling, or platforms, ideally at scale with industry-standard tools, frameworks, or systems
- Experience applying AI technologies to real-world software development challenges
- Track record of quickly ramping up in new domains, technologies, or languages with genuine excitement for continuous learning
- Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally with excellent written and verbal communication skills
