Product Manager (API Platform)

• Our Product Managers imagine the ideal experience for our community and work backwards, creating innovative products that delight our guests and hosts
• They deeply understand the needs of our users and translate these into a strategy that combines strong product thinking and deep research
• They partner with talented cross-functional team members across engineering, design, operations, data science, and more, leading teams to execute a shared vision
• They are incredibly detail-oriented and hands on
• You will be part of the team responsible for product roadmaps and launches at Airbnb
• You will drive specific feature/s that are part of every launch and determine how they are communicated to the external world
• You are responsible for the success of Airbnb products throughout their life cycle — from concept to release
• And their cross-functional work ensures a consistent product voice across all the products being developed at Airbnb
• We are seeking a Product Manager for our API platform for hosts and developers
• You will be responsible for working closely with our engineering team to build and deliver improvements to our API platform and tools for developers
• You will own the product marketing for how our partners can use our API platform to create high value applications
• You will partner with a cross functional team of account managers to scale adoption of our API platform features by existing and new partners
• This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of travel and leave a lasting impact on how the world explores and connects
• Develop and maintain a product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the API platform
• Synthesize feedback and translate it into product features
• Develop a public and developer facing messaging and narrative for the API platform
• Align product teams and cross functional partners
• Develop partnerships with a focus on supply and demand
• Role model behaviors that encourage open communication and curiosity
• Make judgements and prioritization decisions that are in the best interests of our users
• Efficiently execute to ship products and deliver impact for our business and users

Benefits

• Paid volunteer time
• Health food and snacks
• Generous parental and family leave
• Learning and development
• Annual travel and experiences credit- Strong ability and desire to travel frequently, including domestic and international
• Be able to build compelling customer-focused stories and work with marketing and communications partners to bring them to life
• Demonstrated empathy for key developer pain points, and a track record of leadership in building products for developers
• Experience creating product messaging and delivering to customers and the media
• Demonstrated inbound and subject matter expertise
• Enjoys doing individual contributor product management work and staying in the details
• A strong ability to effectively use data and perform business analysis to support product strategy/decisions
• 3+ years of product management experience designing and building developer platforms
• Excited to drive execution across teams in a fast-paced environment
• 8+ years of product management and/or product marketing experience
• Passionate about improving developer productivity, product quality, and automating/optimizing developer workflows
• Experience building strategic relationships with partner executives, senior management and technical staff to achieve business goals
• Demonstrated track record of product leadership in a cross functional environment
• Entrepreneurial track record of taking an idea to reality and leading teams through a dynamic environment