Senior Manager, Technical Brand & Content

Details

Airbnb’s cross-functional Tech Operations and Programs team helps technology organizations execute and deliver high-impact programs and initiatives. This role will shape how the engineering world understands Airbnb’s technical work across infrastructure, data, and applied AI.

Responsibilities

• Own the Airbnb Tech Blog end to end, including sourcing topics, coaching engineer-authors, editing content, and coordinating legal, security, and communications reviews.
• Establish and maintain a reliable publishing rhythm.
• Identify cross-team technical narratives and publish connected content across multiple domains.
• Help engineers and technical leaders build public profiles through bylines, talks, speaker coaching, and developing new voices.
• Partner with the CTO to establish and grow his public technical presence.
• Establish Airbnb’s canonical technical publication on an Airbnb-owned domain.
• Develop additional content formats and distribution surfaces, including video, and define the purpose of social channels.
• Set conference and event strategy, including speaking, sponsorship, and Airbnb-hosted events.
• Manage academic collaborations, technical media relationships, budgets, and vendors.
• Steward Airbnb’s open source presence and ensure public claims and projects are accurate and maintained.
• Measure impact in partnership with Talent Acquisition, including senior-pipeline inbound share and offer acceptance at staff level and above in machine learning and infrastructure.

Requirements

• Substantial experience in technical content, developer relations, engineering communications, or technical editorial.
• Experience working directly with engineers.
• Technical fluency sufficient to participate in systems design conversations, read design documents, and assess the technical substance of draft content.
• Strong editorial judgment and hands-on editing skills.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority by building systems and incentives.
• Experience managing events, budgets, and vendors end to end.
• Ability to connect brand work to recruiting-funnel outcomes and understand attribution limitations.
• Experience navigating legal and security reviews and assessing publication risks.

Nice to Have

• Experience migrating a technical publication between platforms, including SEO and redirect work.
• Experience running or improving an open source program.
• Experience helping a senior executive build a public technical presence.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning engineering topics and academic or research communications.
• Video or multi-format content experience.

Location

US remote eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager. Candidates must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Benefits

The role may be eligible for a bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Equal Opportunity and Accommodations

Airbnb is committed to inclusion and belonging, equal employment opportunity, and providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.