Senior Manager, Technical Brand & Content
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AirbnbTechnical content
US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.Full-TimeManager
Salary$192,000 — $237,000 USD
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Requirements
- Bring substantial experience in technical content, developer relations, engineering communications, or technical editorial.
- Have experience working directly with engineers.
- Demonstrate technical fluency sufficient to participate in systems design conversations, read design documents, and assess technical drafts.
- Use editorial judgment to improve engineers’ drafts while preserving their voice and distinguishing educational content from announcements.
- Build systems and incentives that influence busy senior stakeholders without relying on authority.
- Own events, budgets, and vendors end to end.
- Connect brand work to hiring-funnel outcomes and communicate the limits of attribution.
- Navigate legal and security review and exercise judgment about what should be published.
- Nice to have: experience migrating a technical publication between platforms, including SEO and redirects.
- Nice to have: experience running or improving an open source program.
- Nice to have: experience helping a senior executive build a public technical presence.
- Nice to have: familiarity with AI and ML engineering topics, academic or research communications, or video and multi-format content.
Responsibilities
- Run the Airbnb Tech Blog end to end, from sourcing topics and coaching engineer-authors to editing and coordinating legal, security, and communications review.
- Set a reliable publishing rhythm for the organization.
- Identify cross-team themes and publish connected technical narratives while supporting specialist content in each domain.
- Develop engineers’ and technical leaders’ public presence through bylines, talks, speaker coaching, and new-voice pipelines.
- Partner with the CTO to establish his public technical presence.
- Establish an Airbnb-owned canonical publishing home, develop missing formats including video, and define the purpose of social channels.
- Set conference and event strategy, manage hosted events, and oversee academic collaborations, technical media relationships, budgets, and vendors.
- Steward Airbnb’s open source presence and ensure public claims are accurate and projects are maintained.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to measure hiring outcomes and assess attribution.
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