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Guide the Service Recovery team in delivering best-in-class support during our most sensitive, time-critical escalations. Manage competing priorities, navigate ambiguity, and ensure we maintain rigor, consistency, and empathy even under pressure. Help shape the broader AirCover escalation strategy while coaching the team to grow into trusted, high-judgement escalation handlers.
Job Responsibility:
Own and manage end-to-end people strategy for the team: onboarding, capability building, continuous feedback, and performance management
Serve as the primary leader during high-pressure moments or when the Operations Manager is not available, ensuring continuity of service, judgement, and decision-making
Build a culture of accountability, clarity of expectations, and operational discipline across the team
Drive high-velocity prioritization, helping the team manage multiple urgent escalations while maintaining quality and adherence to protocols
Create and own monitoring metrics to ensure best-in-class community service
Oversee the handling of complex, sensitive, and time-critical escalations that carry brand, legal, financial, or trust risk
Serve on call as needed for incident response
Act as escalation point for point specialists and analysts for executive-level escalations, major incidents, and cross-functional escalations requiring fast, senior-level decision-making
Provide hands-on support for the most challenging cases, ensuring direction, narrative consistency, and airtight risk mitigation
Strengthen the team’s ability to independently handle high-judgement work by creating frameworks, playbooks, and escalation routing clarity
Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across Legal, Fraud and Safety Ops, Community Policy, Product, and Market Operations
Communicate effectively with executive audiences, synthesizing complex information and recommending a clear path forward under tight timelines
Influence cross-functional partners to drive resolution, unblock key decisions, and improve operational readiness for emerging risks
Identify systemic weaknesses across processes, policies, and tools — and drive measurable improvements
Partner with the wider AirCover and Scaled Ops teams to shape roadmaps, strengthen safeguards, and refine how we manage high-stakes escalations globally
Lead or contribute to cross-functional projects that enhance the escalation ecosystem from end to end
Requirements:
4–6+ years of experience leading teams in high-pressure escalation, crisis management, or risk-related environments
Proven experience of incident management in a fast-paced environment
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple urgent, complex cases simultaneously without sacrificing quality or judgement
Strong performance management skills and experience developing individuals into senior-calibre escalation or risk specialists
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft executive-ready narratives under time pressure
Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders, even when priorities or perspectives differ
High analytical capability and comfort making decisions in ambiguous, evolving contexts
Strong operational judgement and the ability to balance risk mitigation with customer experience
A calm, grounded leadership style that brings steadiness to the team in fast-moving and high-stakes moments
Nice to have:
Experience hiring and managing globally dispersed employees is a plus