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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 Difference You Will Make: We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic candidate to provide exceptional Customer Service management to the Airbnb community as a Manager. The ideal candidate is hospitable, analytical, and committed to delivering the highest standards of service through coaching and upleveling their team. This is a full time position based in British Columbia, Canada.
Job Responsibility:
Oversee a strong operational environment for your teams and ensure high quality support for the community from your team
Manage the team execution of complex, sensitive, and/or urgent issues
Meet with your direct reports regularly to review their work and provide high quality, behavior-based coaching
Provide best practices guidelines to your team on how to handle cases and situations
Ensure that the team is consistently staffed appropriately and that staff complete onboarding and ongoing training
For cases that involve internal stakeholders, guide ambassadors to take proper action to case closure
Collaborate with Capacity Planning & WFP on setting minimum headcount
Drive performance at the ambassador, team, and service level
Ensure individual team members are held accountable to performance goals
Manage both ambassador and team performance
Ability to set and articulate the vision and focus for the quarter
Share input and recommendations about service target setting
Provide oversight on the overall service performance and contribute to reporting on trends
Build and nurture an engaged and diverse team
Own and manage end-to-end people strategy and operations within your ambassador team
Enable team and individual professional success
Support team in professional development within a team
Keep up with day-to-day management duties
Maintain a culture of openness, transparency and accountability
Demonstrate strong leadership on important issues including Diversity & Belonging, Allyship, Ethics, Compliance
Support strategic initiatives within Delivery and your service as needed
Lead the team toward the successful execution of company or other strategic changes or goals
Support, as needed, internal Delivery performance & operations improvement projects
Think critically and constantly evaluate our procedures
Requirements:
8+ years of progressive experience in a customer service or an operations role, with 5 years in a role directly managing staff & the employee lifecycle
Demonstrable experience in driving improved performance of teams as a line manager
Experience in the deployment of resources to manage real-time crisis situations, including managing high severity/sensitivity cases and decision-making authority for losses
Experience in data analysis and reporting to identify performance trends, as well as developing and implementing performance management standards
Experience translating big picture goals and strategy into implementable and concrete actions for your teams, including setting operational or functional targets or performance goals
Ability to work weekend days, holidays, and on-call required
Strong communicator, with fluency, in both written and spoken, English
Exceptional leadership and team management skills
Strong communication skills
Organized and resourceful
In-depth understanding of customer service operations and processes
Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities
Ability to cascade with context and lead your team through changes
Exceptional coaching skills
Cultural competency and a strong commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion
Proficiency in various data analysis and reporting tools (tableau, SQL, Excel, Google Sheets, etc.)