About the job
Founded in 2007, Airbnb started with two hosts welcoming three guests into their San Francisco home and has since expanded to over 5 million hosts, providing unique stays and experiences for more than 2 billion guests worldwide. Our platform fosters authentic connections between guests and local communities around the globe.
Join Our Community:
The UI Foundation team at Airbnb boasts a rich history, overseeing our design system, accessibility, motion design, and the essential tooling that links our design processes to product development. Within this framework, the UI Tooling team acts as the crucial bridge between our Design Language System and the daily workflows of hundreds of designers and engineers throughout the organization.
UI Tooling is responsible for the platforms, integrations, and tools that facilitate collaboration and efficiency among designers and engineers. This encompasses design tooling, UI engineering workflows, and increasingly, AI-enhanced processes. As we accelerate AI enablement, this team plays a pivotal role in some of Airbnb's most strategic infrastructure initiatives.
Your Impact:
As the Engineering Manager for UI Tooling, you will provide essential leadership to ensure the team operates with consistency, clarity, and a long-term strategic vision. You will manage and nurture a team of engineers, oversee a multi-year roadmap across UI Tooling's core focus areas, and collaborate cross-functionally with Design, Product, and AI teams to advance the next generation of design and engineering support at Airbnb.
This role is critical in facilitating UI Foundation's broader goals. With your leadership, the team will gain the focus and stability required to swiftly implement initiatives that will influence every product team at Airbnb.
You will be responsible for strategy and execution across five key domains:
- AI Utilization of the Design System: Integrating Figma Code Connections, UI Development Skills and Agents, Prototyping Skills and Agents, and Design Skills and Agents.
- Core UI Development Workflow & Tooling: Component development and documentation tools, design-to-code platforms, and migration tools.
- Core Design Workflow & Tooling: Design systems, asset management, and collaboration tools.
- AI-Powered Workflows: Enhancing existing tools with AI capabilities.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with Design and Product teams to ensure seamless integration of tools and processes.

