Supervisor, Safety Job at Airbnb (Singapore)

Job Description

We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic candidate to provide exceptional Customer Service management to the Airbnb community as a Supervisor. 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 Singapore. The Supervisor supports one or more internal CS services. The Supervisor is an operational leadership role that requires substantial experience in customer service and team management. Supervisors oversee teams of approximately 10-15 specialists and should have the ability to guide and uplevel their specialists, demonstrating top-level customer service skills. Strong organizational skills and the ability to balance real-time and planned work are also required. They should also be adaptable and responsive in our fast paced environment, sometimes under pressure, while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, efficient and demonstrating a high level of professionalism and confidentiality. As part of this role, you are required to be flexible and may be required to move to different teams within Community Support and/or take up different responsibilities from those set out below. The ideal candidate will be open to a role which will evolve based on business needs and will be flexible to meet those needs.

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 trainings
Drive performance at the specialist, team, and service level
Ensure individual team members are held accountable to performance goals in a fair and equitable manner by setting clear expectations, following-up individually, and coaching team members positively to develop and improve their skills in a tailored way
Manage both specialist and team performance, including identifying trends in performance, providing corrective actions and positive overall feedback, and writing year end reviews and improvement plans
Share input and recommendations about service target setting
Work collaboratively with regional Talent teams for the execution of all personal improvement plans and terminations as required
Build and nurture an engaged and diverse team
Own and manage end-to-end people strategy and operations within your specialist team to foster a high performing and sustainable team environment. This includes hiring, driving onboarding, talent development, and people engagement/wellness/morale
Enable team and individual professional success through supporting and challenging your team to meet and exceed expectations with clear goals/expectations, feedback, one-on-ones, and coaching
Support team in professional development within team by finding and creating development opportunities and leveraging company-wide resources to regularly drive development within your 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 allowing our teams to deliver their best work while being themselves
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 by cascading updates and changes, communicating new requirements, and providing feedback
Support, as needed, internal Delivery performance & operations improvement projects, in collaboration with the Delivery Excellence team and cross-functional partners
Think critically and constantly evaluate our procedures. Collect feedback from the team to identify opportunities to improve performance and better optimize processes for the team, service, and global community

Requirements

6+ years of progressive experience in a customer service or an operations role
3 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
Ability to multi-task and adapt to new tasks and responsibilities as needed
Ability to work weekend days and public holidays, as well as early morning / evening shifts
Good leadership and team management skills
Strong communication skills
Organized and resourceful
In-depth understanding of customer service operations and processes
Ability to cascade with context and lead your team through changes
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.)

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