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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. The Community You Will Join: The Service Optimization team is a key operational function within Global Service Optimization, focused on making Airbnb's Community Support more efficient, effective, and adaptable. You'll lead a team of Business Process Improvement analysts and leads, working at the intersection of people, process, and technology. This role collaborates closely with cross-functional partners across Community Support, operational working groups, and broader business stakeholders to drive systemic, continuous improvement. The Difference You Will Make: The BPI Manager will be a key leader within the Service Optimization team, part of the Community Service Organization. This role will deepen the team's discipline across both continuous improvement and proactive process engineering, designing systems where problems do not occur while continuously improving the processes that exist today. A key focus will be engineering processes that are reliable, measurable, automatable, and self-correcting by default, while driving a systemic view across people, process, and technology that keeps pace with the evolving capabilities of AI and automation.
Job Responsibility
Manage a team of business process improvement analysts and leads
Build and strengthen team capabilities in problem solving, systems thinking, process design, and engineering systems for AI-readiness and automation by default
Lead the team in operating across both continuous improvement and proactive process engineering
Apply systems thinking to every initiative
Lead change management for process transitions
Contribute to the strategy and evolution of process engineering as an operational discipline and lead it in practice
Execute in alignment with the strategic objectives of Community Support
Make decisions on the best approaches based on data-driven analyses
Apply the right suite of process analysis, design, and automation tools to drive well-defined future state processes at scale
Maintain execution ownership end-to-end
Relentless focus on continuously improving both the customer and employee journey in key business focus areas
Manage demands and associated resourcing of initiatives from the Community Support roadmap
Collaborate cross-functionally to align priorities and inform trade-offs
Partner with Product and Technology teams to ensure process requirements inform tooling design
Implement ways of working that enable efficient flow of value-based outcomes from the team
Drive Process Engineering maturity by embedding the discipline's principles into how the team scopes, designs, measures, and iterates on every initiative
Ensure every process design is evaluated against three standards: does it reduce agent and customer burden, is it measurable from day one, and can it be automated or self-correcting over time
Develop the team of problem solvers through coaching, mentoring, and other employee engagement activities
Support stakeholders with a leadership perspective in process improvement project scoping, definition, design, and implementation
Hold the team accountable to outcome ownership
Communicate regularly with stakeholders on how the work of BPI aligns to outcomes
Requirements
7+ years of experience in a customer support operations environment, process management, or process improvement field
10+ years of domain experience including process analysis, process design at scale, and applying improvement methodologies using multiple technologies, tools, or platforms to drive process optimization
Demonstrated ability to design processes for AI-readiness and automation, engineering systems that can hand off to AI as capabilities evolve rather than simply optimizing existing workflows
Experience applying a systems thinking lens to process design, identifying upstream root causes and downstream impacts before prescribing solutions
Experienced people leader with a track record of leading teams through a shift in operating discipline, building the capability and culture around a higher standard
Demonstrated experience leading organizational change, including stakeholder alignment, communication planning, and adoption measurement
Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent process management expertise
Proven track record of leading and coaching successful complex process improvements
Proven ability to interact and communicate with people at all levels of the organization in an open and transparent manner
Proven ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, demonstrating ability to lead and influence, express opinions, and structure arguments clearly to drive alignment to measurable outcomes
Demonstrated focus on end-to-end customer journey and customer-centric outcomes
Prior experience developing business processes in customer support operating models that balance multiple stakeholder interests
Demonstrated creative problem solving and analytical skills with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done