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We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic candidate to provide exceptional Customer Service management to the Airbnb community as a Manager, Safety Support. The ideal candidate is hospitable, analytical, and committed to delivering the highest standards of service through coaching and up leveling their team. We are seeking someone who can hold their people accountable, performance manage effectively, and drive strong results against targets. This is a full time position based in 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 that might pose a significant risk to our brand or community, including acting as the highest escalation point for case consults and high level escalations from other stakeholders
Meet with your direct reports regularly to review their work and provide high quality, behavior-based coaching
must be able to create a performance development strategy/plan for your service(s)
Provide best practices guidelines to your team on how to handle cases and situations, and ensure that ways of working are documented and followed
Ensure that the team is consistently staffed appropriately and that staff complete onboarding and ongoing training
Shadowing your people — regularly listening to/reviewing ambassador work firsthand to stay close to quality and coach effectively
For cases that involve internal stakeholders, guide ambassadors to take proper action to case closure and in rare cases, support with in-the-weeds case handling
Collaborate with Capacity Planning & WFP on setting minimum headcount, ensuring adequate coverage, contingency planning impacts of changes, and advocating for staffing needs vs. volume/work
Drive performance at the ambassador, team, and service level
Ensure individual team members are held accountable to performance goals in a fair and equitable manner
Manage both ambassador and team performance, including identifying trends in performance, providing corrective actions and positive overall feedback, and writing year end reviews and improvement plans
Ability to set and articulate the vision and focus for the quarter
deliver that vision and focus through all hands-type meetings
Share input and recommendations about service target setting
Provide oversight on the overall service performance and contribute to reporting on trends and providing a holistic picture of the service to the Delivery Director
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 through supporting and challenging your team
Support team in professional development within the team
Keep up with day-to-day management duties such as time off approvals, team and one-on-one meetings, and managing Talent-related issues
Maintain a culture of openness, transparency and accountability
Demonstrate strong leadership on important issues including Diversity & Belonging, Allyship, Ethics, Compliance and maintaining high standards of service to the company
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 within your service
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 of experience managing, coaching, and scaling large, customer teams in a fast-paced environment
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
A self-starter with the ability to thrive in ambiguity, make strategic decisions, and translate high-level strategies into granular execution
Ability to work weekend days, holidays, and on-call required
Exceptional leadership and team management skills to manage a team of professionals - comfort with conflict, giving and receiving feedback, and handling employee/Talent issues
Demonstrated ability to shadow and coach direct reports through real-time observation' and 'track record of proactively improving service delivery and processes
Strong communication skills to collaborate with different stakeholders and manage sensitive cases, while remaining calm and poised under pressure
Organized and resourceful
able to juggle and multi-task, with an attention to detail and follow through even in ambiguous situations
In-depth understanding of customer service operations and processes
able to translate that to your team
Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities to evaluate procedures and identify opportunities for improvement
Ability to cascade with context and lead your team through changes
Customer-first mindset — championing the Airbnb experience to ensure customers receive premium, 'best-in-class' support
Exceptional coaching skills, you have high EQ and know how to tailor your feedback & communication style to meet the needs of your coachee or mentee
Cultural competency and a strong commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion within the team
Proficiency in various data analysis and reporting tools to track performance trends (tableau, SQL, Excel, Google Sheets, etc.)