Airbnb
Airbnb
Airbnb operates a global travel marketplace that helps guests find and book accommodations from private rooms and apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Its platform also features locally hosted experiences, connecting travelers with activities beyond their lodging. The company works across travel, logistics, and eCommerce, supporting the technology and operations behind stays and experiences worldwide.

Senior Manager, Technical Brand and Content - Airbnb (Remote, United States)

Lead Airbnb’s technical brand through engineering content, developer relations, events, and open source initiatives. Connect technical storytelling and distribution with senior engineering hiring outcomes.

Description

  • Shape how the engineering community understands Airbnb
  • Own the Airbnb Tech Blog from topic development and engineer-author coaching through editing and legal, security, and communications reviews
  • Create and sustain a reliable publishing cadence
  • Find technical narratives spanning teams and develop them into connected content series
  • Support engineers and technical leaders in building public profiles through bylines, talks, speaker coaching, and emerging-voice development
  • Work with the CTO to build and manage his public technical profile
  • Create Airbnb’s primary technical content destination on an Airbnb-owned domain
  • Build needed distribution channels, including video, and clarify the role of social media
  • Define conference and event strategy, run hosted events, and manage academic partnerships and technical media relationships
  • Oversee associated budgets and vendor relationships
  • Manage Airbnb’s open source presence while keeping public claims and projects accurate and maintained
  • Work with Talent Acquisition to link technical brand initiatives to hiring results and evaluate attribution

Requirements

  • Significant experience in technical content, developer relations, engineering communications, or technical editorial work, including direct collaboration with engineers
  • Technical fluency to engage in systems design discussions, review design documents, and evaluate technical content
  • Strong editorial judgment and practical editing ability
  • Ability to influence without formal authority by creating effective systems and incentives
  • End-to-end experience managing events, budgets, and vendors
  • Ability to connect brand initiatives with funnel results while understanding attribution limitations
  • Experience working through legal and security reviews and evaluating publication risk
  • Experience migrating a technical publication between platforms, including SEO and redirect implementation, is a plus
  • Experience launching or improving an open source program is a plus
  • Experience helping a senior executive develop a public technical profile is a plus
  • Familiarity with AI and ML engineering subjects and academic or research communications is a plus
  • Experience with video or multi-format content is a plus
  • Must reside in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity

Benefits

  • Eligibility for bonuses
  • Eligibility for equity
  • Employee benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits
  • Eligibility to work remotely
  • Occasional work from an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager
  • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process

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