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Senior Lead Program Manager – Design
| Company | Airbnb |
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| Location | United States |
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| Salary | $188000 – $235000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- BA/BS with 15+ years Consulting, Program Management, Product Management, Project Management or relevant experience.
- Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions.
- Track record of managing and shipping impactful design initiatives in a large digital product org.
- Long-term strategic thinking balanced with near-term execution skills.
- Distinctive problem solving skills.
- Proven ability to build strong relationships and influence business leaders.
- Demonstrable leadership skills and experience in mediation, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
- Demonstrated track record successfully managing ambitious and operationally complex projects with cross-functional teams.
- Experience in structuring and implementing initiatives at scale with design and product teams.
- Background in establishing systems: experience developing process where little exists, and demonstrated flexibility to get things done.
- Passionate and enthusiastic about organizational excellence and attention to detail.
- Thrives in ambiguity in a fast-paced, hyper-growth organization.
- Ability to effectively structure and delegate work, while creating career growth opportunities for others.
Responsibilities
- Drive consistency and harmony in design team operating rhythm, including communication structures, project templates, leadership cadence, and resource utilization.
- Initiate and run 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.
- Build a following: attract and nurture the best talent.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep knowledge of and appreciation for the Product Design process.
- Experience with or understanding of cross-functional (Design, Product Management, Product Marketing, Engineering) product-driven organizations or digital agency.
