Engineering Manager, UI Tooling

Airbnb was born in 2007 and has grown to over 5 million hosts worldwide. The Engineering Manager of UI Tooling will lead a team responsible for enhancing design and engineering workflows, focusing on AI integration and tooling strategies to empower designers and engineers at Airbnb.

Responsibilities:

• Define multi-year technical roadmaps for UI Tooling with clear, measurable outcomes tied to UI Foundation goals
• Drive adoption of AI-powered design-to-code workflows across Design and Engineering, establishing Airbnb as a leader in this space
• Build cross-functional alignment with Figma, product teams, and AI/ML partners to advance Airbnb's designer and engineer enablement capabilities
• Represent UI Tooling in org-level planning and investment conversations, shaping prioritization and surfacing dependencies across UI Foundation
• Lead, develop, and grow a team of engineers working across design tooling, developer experience, and AI-powered workflows
• Partner with design and engineering leaders to identify workflow pain points and prioritize the highest-leverage tooling investments
• Guide technical decisions across the team — from platform architecture to AI integration patterns — bringing a senior engineering point of view to system design
• Manage staffing, prioritization, and execution consistency, driving clarity and unblocking work across long-horizon platform investments
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team, supporting career growth and raising the technical bar
• Foster an inclusive team culture grounded in psychological safety and high performance

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in an engineering management role leading platform, tooling, or design systems teams
• Strong technical foundation in frontend or cross-platform development, with the depth to engage credibly on architecture decisions
• Track record of driving long-horizon platform investments from strategy through execution, with strong cross-organizational influence and stakeholder management
• Experience building or leading developer experience, design tooling, or design system infrastructure at scale
• Familiarity with Figma's ecosystem — plugins, Dev Mode, Code Connections, or similar design-to-code workflows
• Commitment to inclusive leadership and creating environments where engineers can do their best work
• Experience working with AI-powered developer or designer tooling, or integrating LLM capabilities into product workflows