Senior Manager, Technical Brand & Content

Remote · USD 192,000-237,000 · Remote · Posted Oct 6, 2026

At a glance

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Brand & Content to decide what the engineering world knows about Airbnb.
This role involves building a function from the ground up with real autonomy, very little inherited process, and direct access to engineering leaders and the CTO.
You will own the editorial engine, establish distribution surfaces, and connect brand work to hiring outcomes.

Own the editorial engine by running the Airbnb Tech Blog end to end, sourcing topics, coaching engineer-authors, and moving posts through reviews.
Find cross-team narratives by working across organizations to identify themes and publish connected sets of articles.
Help engineers and technical leaders develop genuine public presence through bylines, talks, speaker coaching, and pipelines of new voices.
Establish a canonical home on an Airbnb-owned domain, stand up missing surfaces including video, and manage social channels.
Run external presence by setting conference and event strategy, managing hosted events, and overseeing academic collaborations and technical media relationships.
Steward open source presence to ensure public claims are accurate, maintained, and reflect company goals.
Partner with Talent Acquisition to connect work to hiring outcomes such as inbound share of senior pipeline and offer acceptance rates.

Substantial experience in technical content, developer relations, engineering communications or technical editorial, including time working directly with engineers.
Technical fluency to hold your own in a systems design conversation, read a design doc, and judge draft posts.
Editorial judgment and hands-on craft to edit engineer drafts without flattening their voice.
Influence without authority by building systems and incentives that motivate busy senior people to produce.
Program discipline with experience owning events, budgets, and vendors end to end.
Measurement literacy connecting brand work to funnel outcomes while understanding attribution limits.
Judgment on risk, including navigating legal and security review.

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

Position is US - Remote Eligible.
May include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed with manager.