Senior Platform Manager, Data Products, Finance Accounting

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to conne...

Airbnb’s Business Technology (Biztech) organization sits at the heart of how we scale our internal operations to match the pace and ambition of our products. Within Biztech, the Finance Accounting Platform team owns the core finance accounting platform — the system that records, processes, and reports the financial ...

As a Senior Platform Manager on this team, you will be embedded in a rich, cross-functional community spanning the full breadth of Airbnb’s business. You’ll partner daily with Product and Platform Managers across Payments, Trust, Guest & Host, Pricing, Insurance, Hotels, and Customer Service — as well as Finance sta...

No two days look the same, but here’s a window into what you might be doing:
Syncing with a cross-functional Product Manager from the Payments or Hotels team to understand an upcoming product change and assess its downstream accounting implications
Reviewing a technical spec with Data Engineering to align on the implementation approach for a new accounting workflow feeding Oracle FAH
Running a UAT session with Revenue Controllership and Tax stakeholders to validate that a new product’s financial lifecycle is being recorded accurately before it goes to production
Pulling and analyzing ad hoc data using SQL to support a Finance or FP&A team working through a close question or business case
Triaging and prioritizing new requests coming into the platform funnel — aligning stakeholders on sequencing and tradeoffs against the broader roadmap
Reviewing data pipeline monitoring alerts and working with engineering to resolve a control gap before it impacts month-end close
Leading a working session with Treasury or Collections to map out an opportunity to automate a high-touch manual process
Drafting a platform update for a senior Finance stakeholder that translates a complex technical change into clear business impact

Subject matter expert in accounting principles and ASC 606 revenue recognition, with the ability to apply standards to complex, multi-product digital marketplace environments
Proven experience implementing end-to-end accounting workflows across quote-to-cash cycles, including reporting and reconciliation
Hands-on experience supporting B2C product workflows on finance platforms — ideally at a high-growth, high-transaction-volume technology company
Solid SQL skills and proven ability to work with large, complex datasets — including writing performant queries against partitioned tables, aggregating high-cardinality transactional data, and troubleshooting data anomalies at scale
Deep understanding of big data principles — including distributed data processing, batch vs. streaming pipelines, data partitioning strategies, data lake vs. data warehouse architectures, and the tradeoffs between latency, throughput, and consistency at high volume
Strong grasp of transactional data characteristics — including event-driven data structures (bookings, cancellations, payments, refunds, adjustments), ACID properties, immutability of financial records, audit trail and lineage requirements, multi-currency and multi-entity data handling, and period-end cutoff logic
Familiarity with subledger to General Ledger data flows — understanding how product-level financial events are transformed, aggregated, and posted as journal entries, and how to validate accuracy across that chain
Experience working with or alongside Oracle FAH, General Ledger, or equivalent ERP platforms
Ability to engage with technical design documents and align with engineering teams on implementation specifications
Familiarity with data pipeline architecture and monitoring controls — including SLA management, data quality checks, alerting frameworks, and reconciliation workflows that ensure financial data integrity across the close cycle
Actively leverages AI tools and technologies to accelerate productivity, improve analytical workflows, and identify opportunities to automate repetitive processes
6+ years of experience in platform management, product management, or technical program management with a strong finance and accounting data focus
Demonstrated ability to own and manage a complex, multi-stakeholder platform roadmap with a high volume of competing priorities
Proven track record of driving end-to-end delivery — from design and engineering through testing, release, and production normalization — in cross-functional environments
Experience operating in Agile and continuous delivery models; able to move with pace without sacrificing rigor or quality
Communication & Collaboration
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to modulate depth and style based on audience — from engineering spec reviews to Finance leadership briefings
Strong influencing skills and high EQ; proven ability to drive alignment across diverse, senior stakeholders without direct authority
Detail-oriented and highly analytical; comfortable structuring ambiguous problems and driving to clear outcomes
Proficiency with Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and modern collaboration tools
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, or a related technical field