Operations Investigation Specialist

The Community You Will Join: 

With more than 100 million lifetime guests, and over 5.8 million listings in 245 countries, our Trust Operations team is what helps keep our platform safe. This role will be responsible for investigating cases, identifying improvement opportunities, and working cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders. Together, we’ll work collaboratively, Embrace The Adventure, and partner to protect the most trusted community in the world. 

The Difference You Will Make:

In the Operations Investigations Job Family, you will be responsible for working with your team to ensure that daily service level agreements are met in responding to user tickets and reviewing users or reservations for risks to our users or the Airbnb platform.  You will be working closely with the product stakeholders and shared services stakeholders to provide feedback to help improve our models as well as focusing on analyzing online patterns and trends.

A Typical Day: 

• Maintain Subject Matter Expertise of your respective Specialization to successfully complete core work and escalations. 
• Educate users on how to maintain security and safety while using Airbnb responsibly.
• Investigate complex situations and potential fraud surfaced in high volume queues.
• Working with operational lead to support cross-functional groups to develop and enhance internal policies and tools such as increasing automation, updating policies, and fixing product loopholes.
• Understand our risk systems and investigate account patterns. 
• When trends or product vulnerabilities have been identified, you are able to escalate to the Product Support Job Family. 
• Maintain high levels of confidentiality while performing investigations.
• Comprehensively document investigations.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the purpose of your Specialization.
• Work with external Product vendors to enhance proactive and reactive risk detection as an informing or collaborating task.
• Demonstrate great judgment and be open to sharing what you know with others.

Your Expertise:

• 1-2 years of experience within risk management, fraud prevention, or Trust and Safety.
• Must be available for a regular schedule of 5 days work per week (40 hours), mutually agreed with your Lead, which may include weekend days and public holidays. Shifts may include evening or early morning hours.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, to help our community in a tactful and diplomatic manner. Ability to balance fraud prevention alongside a positive customer experience.
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, analytical, ability to organize and work independently with rapidly changing priorities.
• Experience working with Jira ticketing system required.
• Solution and outcome-oriented.
• Strong investigative ability, internet research, organizational, and analytical skills. 
• Ability to detect vulnerabilities in existing and new products or features, and anticipate the ever-evolving fraudulent behaviors. 
• Desire to work in fast-paced and rapidly changing environment. Ability to multi­task, learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Ability to remain calm in time sensitive situations; able to prioritize and respond to user and cross-­functional team needs.
• Ability to remove personal bias to focus on fact-based investigations and remain impartial in sensitive situations involving users, 
• Ability to analyze data for patterns and detail oriented:­ you do your due diligence when completing an investigation.
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken, self-motivated and results-oriented.
• Detail oriented:­ you do your due diligence when completing an investigation.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies. Able to work and self-organize with rapidly changing priorities.
• SQL, JSON, or equivalent experience with other coding languages is a plus.
• Ability to analyze data for patterns and draw conclusions and suggestions.
• Fluency in another language is a plus. 
• You may have 1 to 2 years experience in a similar role elsewhere or you may have learned on the job at Airbnb.

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.