Specialty
The role
Airbnb is hiring a Senior Manager of Technical Brand and Content to run its engineering brand, including the Airbnb Tech Blog, speaker programs, events and open source presence. The goal is to make Airbnb's technical work known to engineers. US remote eligible.
What you will do
- Run the Airbnb Tech Blog end to end: sourcing topics, coaching engineer-authors, editing and clearing legal, security and comms review
- Connect work from several teams into published story sets
- Develop public profiles for engineers and technical leaders, including the CTO
- Set up an Airbnb-owned home for content, add video and decide the role of social channels
- Set conference and event strategy and manage budgets, vendors, academic collaborations and media relations
- Check that public open source claims are accurate and maintained, and tie the work to hiring outcomes with Talent Acquisition
What they ask for
- Substantial experience in technical content, developer relations, engineering communications or technical editorial
- Enough technical fluency to follow a systems design discussion and judge whether a draft has substance
- Strong editing skills and credibility with staff engineers
- Ability to influence senior people without direct authority
- Experience owning events, budgets and vendors
- Ability to link brand work to funnel outcomes and handle legal and security review
- Live in a US state where Airbnb has a registered entity
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Airbnb's careers page behind the apply button.
