Senior Manager, Space Studio

Details

Airbnb’s Space team defines how the company designs, builds, and operates its physical world—from headquarters and hubs to flexible, technology-enabled environments. The Space Studio drives step-change work across design, technology, and operations and owns SpaceOS, Airbnb’s internal platform for spatial decision-making and performance. This Senior Manager will lead a small, high-impact team building systems, tools, standards, and metrics that connect design, data, and delivery across Airbnb’s global portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of a long-term design strategy that bridges design, technology, and sustainability to create resilient, purpose-driven spaces worldwide.
• Develop and oversee the Space operating model and systems that enable global programs to run efficiently and scale consistently and with quality.
• Define metrics and feedback loops that translate data into insight to guide priorities, investment decisions, and continuous improvement.
• Set sustainability goals and frameworks and measure, track, and report progress toward them.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team spanning strategy, systems, sustainability, and data, bridging creative vision with operational excellence.
• Advance SpaceOS as the platform that connects sustainability metrics, performance data, and global standards into one integrated ecosystem.
• Translate long-term design strategy into actionable frameworks, playbooks, and tools to improve speed, quality, and measurable impact across the portfolio.
• Partner with Development, Architecture & Construction, Workplace, Real Estate, Procurement, Construction, Facilities, and Hospitality to align strategy with operations and investment planning.
• Develop measurement methods and dashboards that track utilization, performance, and sustainability outcomes.
• Collaborate with technology and engineering teams to automate workflows, streamline reporting, and increase decision transparency.
• Create and maintain documentation and playbooks that make complex systems intuitive and scalable across regions.
• Coach and mentor cross-functional teams focused on precision, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience spanning architecture, design technology, and creative systems development, including several years in senior or cross-functional leadership roles.
• Proven ability to connect creative processes with data, tooling, and scalable design systems that improve quality and efficiency.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across design strategy, operations, sustainability, and technology implementation.
• Deep understanding of digital design workflows (examples listed: Revit, Rhino, Airtable, Figma) and their application to real-world building and workplace systems.
• Demonstrated success developing global standards, operating models, or performance systems within complex, design-driven organizations.
• Track record building sustainability strategies and measurement frameworks and translating them into actionable goals.
• Skilled in translating complexity into clear, measurable systems that guide decision-making and long-term planning.
• Strong collaborative leadership and mentoring skills; ability to move between vision and execution.

Benefits & Compensation

• Base pay range: $188,000—$235,000 USD. Role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
• Position is US - Remote Eligible; may require occasional in-office work or offsite attendance as agreed with manager. Candidate must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity (see careers.airbnb.com for exclusions).

Inclusion & Accommodations

• Airbnb encourages applications from a broad and diverse talent pool.
• Disability-inclusive application and interview accommodations are available via [email protected].

Technologies / Tools Mentioned

• SpaceOS (internal platform)
• Revit, Rhino, Airtable, Figma
• Dashboards, measurement systems, automation and reporting workflows