Program Manager – Stay At Home Jobs

Job Type: Program Manager from home
Location: New York work from home
Company: Airbnb

Position Description:

Airbnb was founded in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three visitors to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts and over 1 billion guest arrivals in practically every country around the world. Every day, Hosts provide visitors with one-of-a-kind stays and experiences that allow them to interact with communities in a more authentic way.

The Group You’ll Be a Part of:

• The Corporate Planning & Execution team sits at the crossroads of strategy and execution, preparing and delivering the company’s key products while giving executives with the insight and input needed to lead bi-annual releases.
• Manages a team of program managers, each of whom is in charge of overseeing the implementation of different but linked products.
• Collaboration with leadership in product marketing, design, engineering, customer service, marketing, and other cross-functional teams to complete all projects on time and with the highest quality possible.
• Collaborates with colleagues in design and engineering to create and implement portfolio management governance.

The Impact You Will Have:

• Predict and mitigate upcoming risks and hazards within the portfolio.
• Organizes information to ensure that it flows efficiently across all products and teams.
• Managers of mentoring and coaching programs
• Coordination of mid-cycle retrospectives to fine-tune the operational system of the portfolio team
• Ensures that program managers follow standard operating procedures, particularly those pertaining to leadership reporting and documentation.

A Normal Day:

• Manages the overall release timelines for the product portfolio, including detecting cross-product relationships and removing redundancy.
• Facilitates issue resolution and decision making, particularly for Product Leadership Provides project status to various stakeholder groups at the degree of information required

Your Area of Specialization:

• 13+ years of experience in program management, business operations, or other relevant fields
• Expertise managing project portfolios, including prioritizing, roadmap planning, and staffing
• Demonstrated ability to form strong bonds with and influence business leaders
• Capability to tackle unusual difficulties that have a wide-ranging impact on the firm
• Skills and expertise in mediation, negotiation, and dispute resolution are required.
• Experience leading ambitious and operationally demanding projects with cross-functional teams.
• Expertise developing and coaching program managers, connecting their talents to the demands of a growing firm.
• Knowledge of project management tracking and reporting platforms such as Airtable, Asana, Jira, Smartsheets, and others.
• In a fast-paced, hyper-growth organization, thrives on ambiguity.
• Travel of up to 10% is required.