Engineering Manager, Identity & Privacy Experience (Users, Identity & Community)
Airbnb
About the role
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 connect with communities in a more authentic way.
Identity & Privacy Experience is a product engineering team within Users, Identity, and Community (UIC) in Guest & Host. We build user-facing experiences that let people manage how they are represented, verified, and protected on Airbnb — spanning identity verification, profile visibility controls, terms of service consent, and privacy settings. We partner closely with Trust platform teams (who build the underlying systems) to deliver the product layer that users directly interact with.
As Engineering Manager, Identity & Privacy Experience, you will lead a team of 6-8 engineers building the experiences that establish and maintain trust between Airbnb and its community of hosts and guests. Your team's work directly impacts regulatory compliance, user safety, and the authenticity of every interaction on the platform.
The community you will join
Identity & Privacy Experience sits at the intersection of user trust, regulatory compliance, and product experience. The team builds the surfaces where users verify their identity, control their privacy, and consent to terms — high-stakes flows that millions of people encounter. You'll join a group within a broader 18-engineer org (three pods: Signup & Login, Account Management, and Identity & Privacy) that values strong engineering craftsmanship, pragmatic execution, and close cross-functional partnership with Trust, Legal, Policy, and Design.
The difference you will make
You will lead the team responsible for how Airbnb earns and maintains user trust through identity and privacy experiences. Your leadership will:
Pioneer Identity Representation and Affinity Verification — Own the experience for verifying diverse facets of identity, specifically leading the expansion into affinity segments like veterans and first responders to enable authentic representation and build trust beyond standard ID verification.
Implement Context-Aware Profile Privacy and Social Controls — Drive the strategy for user profile privacy and social controls, focusing on solutions like context-aware visibility settings (e.g., per-reservation privacy) to ensure user profile information is protected and to give users agency over who sees their details.
Deliver high-stakes compliance experiences — Terms of Service rollouts, consent capture across platforms (iOS, Android, Web), and litigation-ready audit trails that satisfy Legal and regulatory requirements.
Partner deeply with Trust platform teams — translate platform capabilities (consent systems, verification infrastructure, risk signals) into polished product experiences, and advocate for product needs upstream.
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Underpaid estimate
~₹46.5 LPA for Engineering Managers (industry-wide) · based on 36 submissions