Description

You will lead the team responsible for Airbnb's authoritative user data model, online APIs, and entity event interfaces, enabling consistent product experiences, compliance, and AI/Data use cases. Your leadership will define the multi-year technical strategy for authoritative user data and drive adoption of governed data interfaces.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience with 5+ years in engineering management (or equivalent leadership), including leading teams delivering foundational platforms or shared services.
• Strong background in distributed, large-scale backend and data systems: domain modeling, service interfaces (APIs), event-driven architectures, and offline data pipelines.
• Demonstrated success driving cross‑org adoption/migrations with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Experience building systems with scale, performance, and data privacy, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to define crisp technical vision, align teams, and influence without authority.
• Track record of inclusive leadership, talent development, and building high‑ownership teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical strategy for authoritative user data across online, offline, and events.
• Drive adoption of consistent source-of-truth interfaces for critical user data.
• Establish and scale user data governance practices (cataloging, auditing, compliance-by-design, privacy-first defaults).
• Enable AI-powered experiences by building high-quality, trusted, well-governed user data foundations.
• Grow a high-performing team that collaborates effectively across product and infrastructure organizations.