Product Manager, Design Language System
Airbnb
Airbnb is a community marketplace for unique spaces, connecting people who have space to spare with those looking for a place to stay.
About This Job
Airbnb’s UX Platform team enables the entire Airbnb product development team in delivering any idea into something users can see and interact with. This is a unique opportunity to work across design and engineering, through all stages of the product lifecycle to deliver value to all of Airbnb’s end users.
Key Responsibilities
- Define goals and strategy for Airbnb’s design user experience infrastructure: from idea to implementation
- Work collaboratively to build and deliver against a vision spanning design, engineering and all of Airbnb’s business units
- Understand the needs of an extremely broad base of internal customers, while still delivering maximum, measurable impact to the creation of the highest quality end-user host and experience
- Build and evangelize Airbnb’s Design Language system, a unifying set of collaborative tools, assets and processes that enables Airbnb product design
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years delivering software in a product management role
- Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Familiarity with design tools and infrastructure; familiarity with frontend development across web and native applications
- Experience executing large scale, cross-team, cross-functional projects
- Exceptional strength building alignment, working with diverse groups, and getting buy-in from a large and growing organization across business goals and disciplines
- Experience shipping cohesive consumer facing software, partnered with design and engineering functions
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with systems design
- Experience with WCAG 2.0 web accessibility standards and tooling
- Experience building and shipping products that span enterprise and consumer needs across a range of business scenarios
Meet Some of Airbnb's Employees
Amy W.
Front-End Engineer & DesignerFrom designing features to executing front-end tech, Amy makes sure the Airbnb user experience is smooth and seamless—and enjoyable.
Rebecca S.
User ExperienceRebecca brings a human-centered design process to Airbnb. She’s the one who figures out and implements the tweaks—often small!—that make users love their experience all the more.
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