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Lead initiatives in designing and building large-scale distributed data systems and ML infrastructure, while collaborating across various engineering teams.

Lead the architecture, development, and operation of Airbnb’s global Payments Compliance systems. Set technical direction for compliance experiences, regulatory screening, information collection, and continuous auditing. Collaborate with Product, Design, Policy, Operations, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, configurable, auditable, highly available solutions. Mentor engineers, lead project teams, improve engineering processes, and ensure compliance systems adapt to evolving global regulations.

Lead product strategy and roadmap for Payment Accounts platform, building scalable account, wallet, and identity capabilities. Own cross-functional execution with engineering, data, trust, compliance, and external partners to reduce friction, manage receivables and losses, and support global payments use cases.

Lead a team of enablement and activation specialists to create high-quality content, training, and GTM activation at scale for field, vendor, and ops teams. Set strategy, leverage AI tools for content and coaching, partner cross-functionally to launch initiatives, design experiments to measure impact, and develop talent to drive measurable behavior change and performance.

Lead technical strategy and hands-on engineering for Airbnb's AI-powered ads growth engine. Architect scalable systems for creative generation, bidding, budget optimization, and audience management across paid channels. Write and review code, set standards for availability and quality, collaborate with Marketing/Product/ML teams, roll out staged automation, and mentor engineers to advance platform autonomy while ensuring brand safety and human-in-the-loop controls.

Lead and align ML, data, and engineering teams to define multi-year AI roadmaps, deliver production ML solutions, ensure robust data pipelines, set success metrics tied to business outcomes, and grow/mentor senior managers and engineers.

Lead and mentor TPMs to deliver AI platform initiatives across search relevance, recommendation systems, and ML infrastructure. Align stakeholders, define measurable success criteria, manage risks and dependencies, drive execution, and present outcomes to senior leadership. Partner with ML, infrastructure, and product teams to shape technical direction and accelerate data-driven AI initiatives.

Lead architecture and implement core backend services and data models that manage account state, eligibility, and entitlements at scale. Collaborate with product, design, Payments/Wallet, and identity teams to ensure correctness, reliability, and extensibility. Drive cross-team architecture decisions, mentor engineers, run design reviews, and proactively identify and mitigate scalability, reliability, and data-integrity risks.

Lead causal inference and measurement efforts for payments, build and evaluate ML/AI and LLM-based models, optimize fraud mitigation and loss strategies, simulate interventions, and communicate findings to stakeholders to drive product and risk decisions.

Own and scale Airbnb's finance accounting platform: define roadmap, prioritize requests, onboard new products end-to-end, align engineering and finance, ensure data accuracy and monitoring, support month-end close, and automate manual workflows to improve financial data reliability and timeliness.