Senior Manager - Community Blueprint

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is a global hospitality platform that connects travelers with unique accommodations and experiences around the world. Our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Community Blueprint is a team under Global Operations that aims to improve the quality of the end-to-end customer journey and bridge team silos across product operations and policy. To do this we need to be experts in the guest and Host experience and in how the product operations policies function together to deliver the Airbnb experience. As part of the Community Blueprint team your role will be instrumental in driving data-driven decision-making connecting data across product & operations and enhancing the guest and Host experience.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled leader with deep expertise in customer journey analysis strategic planning and team development. As the Senior Manager you are a leader that will be responsible for driving forward customer experience excellence developing insights that identify user experience gaps and growing the team’s impact on the business. The ability to connect the dots across the end-to-end customer journey and across different teams will be critical to success. This role will also be presenting to and influencing leaders at the highest level meaning strong communication skills will be essential.

This role will be part of the Frontline Insights & Execution (FIX) team within Community Blueprint. This is a highly cross functional team this means you will collaborate with many different functions across all of Airbnb to drive strategic initiatives and inform decisions that will ultimately improve the guest and host experience. We are looking for a scrappy self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset who thrives in ambiguity and can deeply understand the nuances of our rapidly evolving business and use data to make key decisions..

A Typical Day:

• Lead mentor and develop a high-performing team providing regular feedback coaching and performance evaluations.

• Foster a collaborative and supportive team environment that encourages growth knowledge sharing and innovation.

• Oversee workload management resource allocation and project prioritization for the team.

• Develop and implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure team effectiveness and impact.

• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to align with broader company goals and objectives.

• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data across the end-to-end customer journey to drive business decisions.

• Identifying customer issues and understanding the what as well as investigating the why.

• Leverage LLMs/generative AI tools to enhance the effectiveness of the team.

• Develop strong working relationships and collaborative partnerships with the various internal teams such as Product Operations Engineering Training Knowledge Management Incident Management Business Process Improvement Partner Management Finance Research and others.

• This is a global program which means this role will be working with people from many different time zones and requires flexibility in the hours they’re available to take meetings.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and advancements in quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques.

Your Expertise:

• An undergraduate degree with a strong preference for candidates holding an MBA or equivalent advanced degree with 12+ years of industry experience in a General Manager Strategy Manager Product Insights Product Operations or equivalent role.

• Proficiency in SQL data analysis and data visualization.

• Proficiency in Jira and Airtable (optional).

• Strong technical data skills ability to connect data across multiple areas.

• Self-starter thrives in ambiguity and has an investigator mindset of wanting to get to the bottom of problems.

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities with a keen attention to detail.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to collaborate and influence across functions.

• An agile growth-minded approach demonstrated through a history of driving projects from ideation to impact.

• Robust business acumen strategic thinking skills and the ability to make informed judgments.

• Experience managing a team including performance management and goal setting.

• Experience managing projects involving cross-functional teams.

• Understanding of LLMs and desire to continue to learn in the AI space.

• Flexible and can deal effectively with changes in priorities or ambiguity.

• Prior experience in the technology industry or a fast-paced data-driven environment is preferred

Joining the Airbnb team as a Senior Manager of the Community Blueprint Team will provide you with an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of a global technology company. If you are a highly analytical detail-oriented and strategic thinker with a passion for data-driven decision-making we would love to hear from you

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible you must live in a state where Airbnb Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement and allow us to attract creatively-led people and to develop the best products services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application please contact us at: [email protected] . Please include your full name the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is a global hospitality platform that connects travelers with unique accommodations and experiences around the world. Our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Community Blueprint is a team under Global Operations that aims to improve the quality of the end-to-end customer journey and bridge team silos across product operations and policy. To do this we need to be experts in the guest and Host experience and in how the product operations policies function together to deliver the Airbnb experience. As part of the Community Blueprint team your role will be instrumental in driving data-driven decision-making connecting data across product & operations and enhancing the guest and Host experience.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled leader with deep expertise in customer journey analysis strategic planning and team development. As the Senior Manager you are a leader that will be responsible for driving forward customer experience excellence developing insights that identify user experience gaps and growing the team’s impact on the business. The ability to connect the dots across the end-to-end customer journey and across different teams will be critical to success. This role will also be presenting to and influencing leaders at the highest level meaning strong communication skills will be essential.

This role will be part of the Frontline Insights & Execution (FIX) team within Community Blueprint. This is a highly cross functional team this means you will collaborate with many different functions across all of Airbnb to drive strategic initiatives and inform decisions that will ultimately improve the guest and host experience. We are looking for a scrappy self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset who thrives in ambiguity and can deeply understand the nuances of our rapidly evolving business and use data to make key decisions..

A Typical Day:

• Lead mentor and develop a high-performing team providing regular feedback coaching and performance evaluations.

• Foster a collaborative and supportive team environment that encourages growth knowledge sharing and innovation.

• Oversee workload management resource allocation and project prioritization for the team.

• Develop and implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure team effectiveness and impact.

• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to align with broader company goals and objectives.

• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data across the end-to-end customer journey to drive business decisions.

• Identifying customer issues and understanding the what as well as investigating the why.

• Leverage LLMs/generative AI tools to enhance the effectiveness of the team.

• Develop strong working relationships and collaborative partnerships with the various internal teams such as Product Operations Engineering Training Knowledge Management Incident Management Business Process Improvement Partner Management Finance Research and others.

• This is a global program which means this role will be working with people from many different time zones and requires flexibility in the hours they’re available to take meetings.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and advancements in quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques.

Your Expertise:

• An undergraduate degree with a strong preference for candidates holding an MBA or equivalent advanced degree with 12+ years of industry experience in a General Manager Strategy Manager Product Insights Product Operations or equivalent role.

• Proficiency in SQL data analysis and data visualization.

• Proficiency in Jira and Airtable (optional).

• Strong technical data skills ability to connect data across multiple areas.

• Self-starter thrives in ambiguity and has an investigator mindset of wanting to get to the bottom of problems.

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities with a keen attention to detail.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with a proven ability to collaborate and influence across functions.

• An agile growth-minded approach demonstrated through a history of driving projects from ideation to impact.

• Robust business acumen strategic thinking skills and the ability to make informed judgments.

• Experience managing a team including performance management and goal setting.

• Experience managing projects involving cross-functional teams.

• Understanding of LLMs and desire to continue to learn in the AI space.

• Flexible and can deal effectively with changes in priorities or ambiguity.

• Prior experience in the technology industry or a fast-paced data-driven environment is preferred

Joining the Airbnb team as a Senior Manager of the Community Blueprint Team will provide you with an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of a global technology company. If you are a highly analytical detail-oriented and strategic thinker with a passion for data-driven decision-making we would love to hear from you

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible you must live in a state where Airbnb Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement and allow us to attract creatively-led people and to develop the best products services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application please contact us at: [email protected] . Please include your full name the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.