# Product Program Manager, Roadmap Planning & Program Management

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $180k – $222k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Program Management, Product Management, Business Operations, Jira, Asana, Airtable, smartsheet, Cross-Functional Collaboration, risk mitigation, Stakeholder Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Drive planning and delivery of Airbnb's priority software product programs by partnering with engineering, design, marketing and operations teams. Develop custom program plans, anticipate risks, and act as a force multiplier to improve quality and velocity across cross-functional stakeholders. Requires 8+ years managing complex product programs at global scale.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partners with engineering, product marketing, design, community support, and other cross-functional teams to deliver software product programs with the highest quality and on schedule.
- Understands dependencies across functions to optimize the overall system and deliver the highest quality offerings at scale.
- Anticipates upcoming risks and issues and develops risk mitigation strategies proactively in a fast-paced environment.
- Brings an experienced product mindset to tie strategy and execution together.
- Develops program plans that are unique to each initiative and require strategic thinking.
- Operates at a variety of altitudes by tailoring communication style and approach.
- Expert collaborator that is able to understand consumer, technology, and design.
- Goes beyond status reporting to drive issues to resolution.
- Understands best practices, drives improvements, and focuses on simplification.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in a combination of program management, product management, or business operations managing sophisticated software product programs from end to end in a creative-led, fast-paced environment.
- Strong product and/or technology experience including product management or engineering (software preferred).
- Demonstrated ability of shipping software products at global scale having overcome a variety of challenges.
- Critical thinking skills to develop bespoke program plans that are custom to the needs of the specific program.
- World-class verbal and written communication skills that can simplify complex topics.
- Exceptional influencing and presentation skills.
- Proven ability to build strong relationships and be a trusted agent for change with business leaders (up to the executive level).
- Track record for successfully managing ambitious and operationally complex projects with cross-functional teams across product development, product marketing, design, marketing, and operations.
- Expertise in using program management tools such as Airtable, Asana, Jira, Smartsheets, etc.
- Thrives in ambiguity in a fast-paced, hyper-growth organization.

## Nice-to-Haves
- World-class communicator that can simplify the complex.
- Expert collaborator able to understand consumer, technology, and design.

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