# Product Program Manager, Roadmap Planning & Program Management

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $176k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Program Management, Product Management, Jira, Asana, Airtable, Smartsheet, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Planning
**Posted:** 2026-05-19

> Drive roadmap planning and delivery of priority software products at Airbnb. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, design, and marketing to manage complex programs, mitigate risks, and provide executive visibility.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering, product marketing, design, community support, and other cross-functional teams to deliver software product programs with the highest quality and on schedule
- Understand dependencies across functions to optimize the overall system and deliver the highest quality offerings at scale
- Anticipate upcoming risks and issues and develop risk mitigation strategies proactively in a fast-paced environment
- Develop program plans that are unique to each initiative and require strategic thinking
- Operate at a variety of altitudes by tailoring communication style and approach
- Go beyond status reporting to drive issues to resolution
- Understand best practices, drive improvements, and focus 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

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