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Salary: USD 200,000 - 250,000 / annual
Airbnb is seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager to lead Infrastructure Security initiatives across the platform. You will work with security and infrastructure engineers to keep the Airbnb platform secure, resilient, and transparent, partnering with senior individual contributors and leaders across the company on processes, strategy, and execution.
In this role, you will shape and influence the technical direction of infrastructure security projects, ensuring stakeholder needs are met while maintaining high-quality standards. You'll balance broad, outcome-driven thinking with attention to critical details, rapidly prototyping and validating project ideas through iterative development cycles. You will define and secure stakeholder alignment on clear, measurable success criteria for security initiatives, regularly assess risks and opportunities, and devise proactive mitigation strategies to maintain momentum.
You'll maintain transparent communication channels to keep stakeholders informed of progress, developments, and challenges, and expertly present outcomes and updates to senior leadership, clearly articulating trade-offs, risks, and emerging opportunities.
This is a remote-eligible position based in the United States. You must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity (certain states are excluded; check Airbnb's careers page for the current list). The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed with your manager.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of work experience, with at least 8 years as a TPM or relevant experience
- Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions; ability to take a vague problem, crisply frame the challenge, identify a path forward, and drive an initiative to completion
- Self-motivated, proactive, and proven ability to adapt well and work with teams having different operating cadences
- Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, strong analytical skills, and track record of taking ownership, leading data-driven analyses, and influencing results
- Hands-on technical experience with infrastructure security, such as: identity and access management, network security, encryption and key management, secure configuration, container and Kubernetes security, and data protection in cloud environments or data platforms
- Familiarity with incremental delivery and deployment
- Ability to ramp up quickly and learn new technologies with minimal lag time
- Excellent written and oral business communication and people skills, with ability to influence stakeholders
