Senior Talent Business Partner Human Resources jobs at Airbnb in United States, San Francisco

The Difference You Will Make:

You’ll act as a strategic advisor and trusted partner to senior leaders, helping shape and execute a people strategy that drives performance, engagement and innovation. You’ll also coach and influence managers, roll up your sleeves to solve challenges and connect the dots across global teams and initiatives. This role reports to the Talent Director for the group.

A Typical Day:

• Partner directly with global leaders (across EMEA, APAC and the Americas) to shape and execute a localized people strategy that anticipates business needs, unlocks growth and aligns with regional realities, balancing global consistency with local relevance.
• Act as a strategic advisor and operator, co-driving critical initiatives such as org design, leadership capability building, workforce planning and change management, with a bias toward fast, business-relevant execution.
• Translate talent strategy into action by embedding yourself in the rhythm of the business, co-creating operating plans with senior leaders and ensuring Talent priorities are embedded into the day-to-day work of high-performing, entrepreneurial teams.
• Lead through complexity, navigating ambiguity, proactively mitigating risks and creating clarity during organizational change; ensure seamless execution across functions by coordinating closely with COEs and other enabling teams.
• Coach and develop leaders at all levels, not just on performance, but on shaping culture, navigating scale and building teams that reflect Airbnb’s values and business ambition.
• Own critical moments, from sensitive ER issues to engagement surveys and performance calibration, ensuring outcomes are thoughtful, data-informed and aligned to business goals.

Collaboration:

• Work hand-in-hand with Recruiting to shape hiring strategies that reflect market needs, team dynamics and long-term talent bets, ensuring a seamless, high-quality candidate experience at every stage.
• Partner with Total Rewards to advise on compensation, offers and internal mobility decisions, grounded in business context and local market intelligence.
• Collaborate closely with Legal and Employee Relations to manage sensitive matters with care and compliance, balancing business risk and employee trust.
• Support and guide Talent Management cycles, from performance reviews to talent management, ensuring they are timely, fair and anchored in business priorities.
• Bring cross-functional insights together (from L&D, Rewards, DEI and more) to deliver people solutions that are both globally aligned and locally impactful.

Your Expertise:

• Proven HR leadership with 15+ years of experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments. Skilled at navigating complexity, scaling organizations and driving talent strategies that enable business performance.
• Global perspective with local execution muscle. Adept at supporting regional teams across diverse markets and turning strategy into action on the ground.
• Deep expertise across the people lifecycle from engagement, performance and org design to ER, coaching, compensation and talent planning.
• Strong operator and trusted advisor, equally comfortable building programs from scratch, influencing top leaders or guiding teams through ambiguity and change.
  
• Emotionally intelligent leader, curious, empathetic, grounded in integrity and relentlessly committed to building great teams and great cultures.

Offices: San Francisco, United States

The Community You Will Join:

The Administrative Community is composed of global Business Partners who support Airbnb’s leaders and their teams around the world. Our Business Partners bolster Airbnb’s mission to create a world where anyone can belong by:

• Exercising sound judgment and strategy to coordinate core meetings
• Utilizing diverse communications methods to execute projects and tasks critical to the business
• Developing, iterating and driving team operations
• Curating meaningful moments through team events and gatherings
• Influencing team culture through leadership and collaboration

A Typical Day:

• Act as a thought partner to the VP of Supply and his team to strategically align their calendar with their priorities.
• Use sound judgment and discretion to produce work that touches the most sensitive and highly confidential information (e.g. executive hiring, significant organizational changes)
• Represent the organization to internal and external stakeholders
• Build effective relationships within Airbnb to serve as a catalyst around scheduling and or spontaneous inquiries/requests
• Manage and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders (e.g. vendors, executive candidates)
• Strong partnership with internal/external comms, talent partners and recruiting for org effectiveness
• Manage all day to day administrative responsibilities for this leader. This includes advanced calendar management, travel and expense management, note-taking, meeting preparation and follow up
• Plan and execute team events, offsites, activities, and recognition
• Assist and/or own content creation including drafting emails and creating presentations
• Manage purchase orders and partner with the leader and finance to track and analyze budget and expenses
• Serve as a collaborative leader within the Admin community, stepping in as needed—including coverage for peers during time off—to ensure seamless support for leadership and continuity of business operations.
• Complete other duties and special projects as assigned

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of relevant experience supporting senior level executives in an administrative capacity
• Previous experience in high growth environment strongly preferred
• Strong work ethic, proactive, exhibits positivity, professionalism, confidentiality and good judgment
• Outstanding verbal and written communication
• Ability to deal with conflict as well as give and receive feedback diplomatically
• Ability to navigate and thrive in ambiguity
• Incredibly organized and resourceful; able to juggle and multi-task, with an acute attention to detail and follow through
• Passion for trying, learning, improving, and sharing best practices
• Ability to remain calm and poised under pressure
• May be requested to travel up to 5-10%

This position needs to be based in the San Francisco office 40 hours a week, or as required by the business needs for the role.

Offices: San Francisco, United States

The Community You Will Join:

The Roadmap Planning & Program Management team sits at the intersection of strategy and execution with the aim of planning and delivering the company’s priority products while providing executives the visibility and input they require to guide bi-annual releases.

A Typical Day:

• Partners with engineering, product marketing, design, community support, and other cross functional teams to deliver software product programs with the highest quality and on schedule
• Understands dependencies across functions to optimize the overall system and deliver the highest quality offerings at scale
• World-class communicator that can simplify the complex
• Anticipates upcoming risks and issues and develops risk mitigation strategies proactively in a fast pace environment
• Brings an experienced product mindset to tie strategy and execution together
• Develops program plans that are unique to each initiative and require strategic thinking
• Operates at a variety of altitudes by tailoring communication style and approach
• Expert collaborator that is able to understand consumer, technology, and design
• Goes beyond status reporting to drive issues to resolution
• Understands best practices, drives improvements, and focuses on simplification

Your Expertise:

• 13+ years of experience in a combination of program management, product management, or business operations managing sophisticated software product programs from end to end in a creative-led, fast paced environment
• Strong product and/or technology experience including product management or engineering (software preferred)
• Demonstrated ability of shipping software products at global scale having overcome a variety of challenges
• Critical thinking skills to develop bespoke program plans that are custom to the needs of the specific program
• World-class verbal and written communication skills that can simplify complex topics
• Exceptional influencing and presentation skills
• Proven ability to build strong relationships and be a trusted agent for change with business leaders (up to the executive level)
• Track record for successfully managing ambitious and operationally complex projects with cross-functional teams across product development, product marketing, design, marketing, and operations
• Expertise in using program management tools such as Airtable, Asana, Jira, Smartsheets, etc.
• Thrives in ambiguity in a fast-paced, hyper-growth organization

Offices: San Francisco, United States

A Typical Day:

• Design, create content, facilitate leadership events and workshops for the Technology organization focusing on unique needs and business objectives
• Drive change by project managing follow up activities after each event to ensure the organization and leaders act on commitments
• Partner with technical leaders to understand organizational gaps and design experiences to unlock insights to drive leadership actions
• Organize events/forums to bring senior leaders together to identify business challenges and develop actions to address business needs
• Build a community among senior individual contributors across the technical organization through development of offsites and technical forums
• Collaborate with leaders and their talent partners to design and deliver trust building interventions to help build high performing leadership teams
• Understand ways of working across Tech and develop actions for improving efficiency across teams.
• Partner with stakeholders, SMEs, senior leaders and external consultants.

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of experience applying academic knowledge to real world challenges with demonstrated experience delivering tangible impact in multiple practice areas
• Significant experience coaching senior technology leaders.
• Exceptional facilitation skills and an ability to engage audiences in workshop and offsites both in person and virtually, synchronously and asynchronously
• High degree of executive presence, including responsiveness, business focus, integrity, sound judgment, and ability to prioritize effectively across competing demands.
• Curriculum and program design experience, specifically designing Leadership programs for tech audiences.
• Demonstrated knowledge of learning science and learning experience design applied within technical organizations.
• Track record of delivering unique and creative learning experiences that achieve outstanding learning outcomes.
• Experience building trusted relationships with senior business leaders across multiple groups and geographies.
• Data-driven approach to evaluating and measuring learning experiences.
• Comfort with ambiguity, change and experimentation - a willingness to iterate
• Strong understanding of Technology organizations and how technical organizations operate.
• Hands on design, content creation and facilitation of workshops with audiences in excess of 100 attendees to enable positive cultural impact.

Offices: San Francisco, United States