Airbnb

Senior Platform Planning Manager

Airbnb

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $177,000 - $208,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Plan agenda and own logistics for major product planning meetings and gatherings, and drive follow up actions to completion
  • Communicate clear project plans including timelines, deliverables, and big rocks to the Platform Team
  • Project Manage planning processes ensuring PRD completion and hand-off to engineering
  • Provide transparent, proactive, and timely updates to requesters, leadership, and other customers of planning
  • Work cross functionally with Engineering and TPM teams to coordinate engineering sizing
  • Regularly report on the status of the planning process (KPIs) through a monthly executive summary
  • Calculate and maintain capacity estimates for the platform + experience team and CS Labs team
  • Allot work to the CS Labs team in alignment with the product roadmap and priorities
  • Maintain source of truth trackers and documentation

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in strategic planning, program management, or product operations roles with a proven track record of success
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional product planning or portfolio management processes with executive visibility
  • Exceptional communication skills, verbal, written and presentation, to all levels of an organization
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Understanding of product management processes, experience working with engineering teams
  • Proficiency in virtual collaboration and project management tools like Asana, Jira, and Airtable
  • Strategic thinking and organizational skills, with the ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally across teams
  • Hands-on, working knowledge of software product development life-cycle and methodologies. Specific experience with Agile is desired
  • Naturally accountable and responsible: Self-starter, self-motivated, focused, and self-sufficient
  • Strong strategic judgment: an ability to interpret organizational goals and translate them into planning activities
  • Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, in a fast-paced environment
  • Comfort working with both big-picture strategy and tactical execution
  • Champion for continuous improvement
  • Exceptional listening skills and strong attention to detail
  • Travel requirements: Up to 10% of time, based on project requirements
Benefits
  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
strategic planningprogram managementproduct operationsproduct management processessoftware product development life-cycleAgile methodologiescapacity estimationKPI reportingcross-functional product planningportfolio management
Soft Skills
communication skillsproblem-solving skillsanalytical skillsstrategic thinkingorganizational skillsself-starterself-motivatedattention to detaillistening skillsability to manage competing priorities