דרושים Senior Manager Strategy Implementation ב-Airbnb ב-India, Gurugram

Master High-Stakes Customer Resolutions:

• Lead resolution of critical cases escalated to senior leadership, mirroring the precision of industries like luxury hospitality or premium aviation. Operate with urgency, delivering personalized solutions with unmatched attention to detail.
• Conduct investigative deep dives: Analyze high-impact issues (e.g., safety concerns, high-value customer disputes) through data-driven problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration.

Redefine Customer Expectations:

• Create transformative customer experiences: Resolve not just immediate concerns but systemic issues, aligning with industries like luxury retail where service exceeds expectations at every touchpoint.
• Go beyond service recovery: Deliver tailored resolutions (e.g., surprise-and-delight gestures, executive-level handling) that build enduring customer loyalty.

Deliver Empathy-Led Advocacy:

• Anticipate unspoken needs: Identify hidden pain points and proactively address them, following the example of empathetic industries like healthcare and high-end concierge services.
• Turn detractors into advocates: Use emotionally intelligent communication to rebuild trust and transform dissatisfied customers into brand champions.

Collaborate and Influence Across Functions:

• Build bridges across teams: Work with wider Community Support, Legal, PR, Trust & Safety, and other stakeholders to align customer outcomes with organizational goals..
• Drive strategic change: Identify trends from customer escalations, translating them into actionable recommendations for leadership to improve policies, processes, and user experience.

Develop Expertise and Mitigate Risks:

• Become a subject-matter expert : Deeply understand brand policies, compliance requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Manage ambiguity with authority: Use sound judgment to handle complex, high-stakes cases with minimal supervision.

Set the Gold Standard in Operations:

• Mentor and elevate peers: Share expertise to upskill team members, refine playbooks, and scale operational excellence, inspired by continuous improvement practices in elite organizations.
• Innovate processes: Design workflows that embed customer-first principles, reflecting the scalable excellence seen in leading tech and luxury brands.

Your Expertise:

• Investigate with precision: You approach problems like an auditor in finance or a specialist in healthcare, uncovering root causes others miss .
• Thrive in high-pressure environments: You remain composed and decisive, even in scenarios requiring rapid escalation and executive-level visibility
• Deliver beyond expectations: You treat every case as an opportunity to innovate and provide high end customer service.
• Communicate with confidence: Your messaging is polished, persuasive, and tailored for stakeholders at all levels—from team members to C-suite executives.
• Think systemically: You anticipate the ripple effects of decisions, leveraging foresight seen in industries like aviation safety or strategic consulting.

  Requirements:

  • Experience: 3+ years in customer success, risk management, or service delivery in high-stakes sectors (e.g., aviation, healthcare, finance, or luxury retail).
  • Availability to work 40 hours a week (out of Gurgaon location, 5 days WFO), available to work weekends and/or different shifts
  • Track record of excellence: Consistently rated as a top performer in roles requiring quick decision-making and emotional intelligence.
  • Availability: Flexible to work non-traditional hours, reflecting the round-the-clock commitment seen in premium service industries.

  Key Skills:

  • Conflict resolution: Expert at diffusing tense situations with empathy and authority
  • Time management: Proven ability to juggle 10+ critical tasks with precision, prioritizing effectively under tight deadlines.
  • Strategic decision-making: Comfortable making high-stakes judgment calls (e.g., financial goodwill gestures, policy exceptions) that balance business and customer needs.
  • Operational excellence: Experience with customer-centric workflows and governance models from industries like financial services or aviation.

Offices: Gurugram, India

The Difference You Will Make:

As a senior manager of advanced analytics , you will lead a high-performing team tasked with delivering actionable insights, developing robust data frameworks, driving advanced analytics solutions and building self-serve dashboards. Your expertise will shape and support Community Support’s strategic goals, including reducing contact volumes, increasing first contact resolution rates, and optimizing cost-effective service delivery.

• Leadership & Strategy :
• Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary analytics team to deliver data-driven insights for Community Support.
• Develop and execute an analytics strategy to align with organizational priorities, such as reducing contact volume, increasing first contact resolution (FCR), and optimizing cost-effective service delivery.
• Translate Community Support priorities into actionable data strategies to enhance customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and proactive issue resolution.
• Advanced Analytics Solutions :
• Drive analytics frameworks across Community Support AI tools, operational processes, and ambassador interactions.
• Design predictive and causal modeling techniques to identify trends, optimize resourcing, and improve service experiences.
• Enhance anomaly detection capabilities and integrate predictive analytics with operational dashboards to deliver real-time insights.
• Collaboration :
• Partner across functional teams such as Product, Operations, and Data Engineering to ensure alignment of insights with business objectives.
• Work closely with engineering on logging improvements, instrumentation, and scalable tools.
• Metrics Development :
• Build and oversee impactful metrics such as Net Promoter Score (NPS), Time to First Touch (TTFT), First Contact Resolution (FCR), Solves Per Day (SPD), and advanced Service Quality metrics.
• Introduce models for measuring and mitigating silent suffering and other nuanced customer trends.
• Experimentation & Measurement :
• Lead structured experimentation, including developing power analyses, exit criteria, and statistical models for inference in key initiatives.
• Organizational Leadership :
• Foster innovation in CS analytics by organizing workshops and structured training programs tailored to address core priorities like contact volume reduction, resolution speed, and data-augmented service strategies.
• Contribute to executive-level presentations that contextualize CS performance data within broader organizational objectives, ensuring insights are framed to influence senior leaders and drive strategic decision-making.

A Typical Day:

• Owning the analytics road map, prioritization & delivery of solutions in the customer support space space.
• Collaborating with operational teams to visualize case and interaction-level data to unpack contact reason trends and efficiencies.
• Engaging with global & India based stakeholders to refine Community Support reporting frameworks.
• Lead data investigations, uncover root causes and identify opportunities for product managers.
• Building scalable insights solutions using advanced analytics techniques.
• Working closely with Product Managers and Business leads to design, execute and evaluate A/B tests. Understand common pitfalls and caveats of experimentation.
• Define how to best measure the performance of Airbnb products and business through new metrics and dimensions. Align with stakeholders, understand trade offs and guardrails, prototype metrics through custom data pipelines.
• Empower the team to answer data questions quickly and easily by building high-quality ground truth data sets and dashboards.
• Work closely with other global operations and India analytics functions.
• Drive accountability within the team and effectively manage stakeholder expectations
• Hire, retain and grow talent across the right mix of functional areas to meet payment analytics needs.
• Coach and mentor direct reports on both technical development and soft skills.
• Adapt and grow the India customer support analytics team as the business evolves.

Your Expertise:

• 15+ years of industry experience and an advanced degree (Masters or PhD preferred) in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or Operations Research.
• Proven expertise in leveraging analytics to shape customer support strategies, including reducing contact volumes, enhancing resolution rates, and improving service quality metrics such as NPS and FCR.
• Strong proficiency in Python or R programming, SQL, data modeling, ETL processes, and data warehousing concepts to ensure scalable and efficient data pipelines.
• Extensive experience in advanced statistical methodologies, including hypothesis testing, regression techniques (Linear, Logistic, Ridge, Lasso), Random Forest, NLP/Text Mining, and clustering algorithms like K-Means.
• Expertise in designing and developing BI dashboards using tools like Tableau, Power BI, or Looker, with a focus on user-centric design, advanced visualizations, interactivity features, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to design metrics and prototypes integrated with robust data pipelines, supporting actionable insights and decision-making.
• Skilled in A/B experiment analysis, statistical data analysis, and experimental design to measure effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
• Proven communication and collaboration skills, capable of translating technical insights into actionable narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences within cross-cultural and cross-functional teams.
• Experience driving data strategies, establishing centralized sources of truth, and providing direction on analytics within diverse organizational contexts.

Offices: Gurugram, India

The Community You Will Join:

We together take care of all the safety concerns of our users, few things to keep in mind while being part of safety

As a Senior Specialist, you’ll be trusted with our most sensitive, high-risk cases, those that require a combination of trauma-informed support, exceptional judgment, and deep behavioral insight. You’ll also serve as a thought partner to leadership, helping to raise the bar on how we care for our users, and how we collaborate globally to drive consistency and care.

You will directly support users and internal stakeholders during our most critical, low-frequency but high-severity incidents, including but not limited to:

• Physical or sexual assault, exploitation, or abuse
• Self-harm and mental health-related emergencies
• Human trafficking and child endangerment
• Domestic violence or threats to personal safety
• Culturally sensitive, high-risk cases requiring bespoke handling

Your ability to navigate ambiguity, crisis, and cultural nuance with poise and empathy will help preserve safety and trust at the most difficult times.

• Provides leadership-level case handling across high-complexity, high-sensitivity cases
• Demonstrates deep subject-matter expertise in personal safety risk assessment and trauma-informed communication
• Collaborates on complex case decisions across cross-functional teams including Legal, Comms & Safety Stakeholders
• Actively identifies patterns, edge cases, and workflow gaps; contributes to the refinement of global safety procedures
• Maintains quality, accuracy, and ownership with minimal supervision

• Effectively communicates complex case contexts to senior leadership and cross-functional partners
• Leads or supports debriefs, learning sessions, and stakeholder reviews for severe incidents
• Writes clear, concise narratives on high-risk cases that may be used in internal and executive-level reviews
• Demonstrates tact, professionalism, and credibility across diverse and high-pressure settings

• Assesses behavioral signals and patterns to predict user needs or safety risks
• Escalates cases appropriately, balancing urgency and long-term impact
• Contributes to safety incident root-cause analysis and quality audits
• Uses data and qualitative feedback to advocate for product or policy improvements

• Maintains composure and clear judgment during highly stressful or emotional incidents
• Supports and coaches peers in best practices for trauma-informed engagement
• Proactively fosters psychological safety and resilience within the team
• Embraces difficult conversations and navigates ambiguity with confidence

• 4+ years in customer-facing roles with direct phone/email interaction, including 2+ years in Trust & Safety, emergency response, law enforcement, mental health, or crisis management
• Demonstrated experience handling highly sensitive or traumatic content with care and confidentiality
• Experience engaging with executive stakeholders or leading discussions involving safety, crisis escalation, or reputational risk
• Ability to work weekend days and public holidays required, as well as evening or night shifts. Your schedule can change to meet business needs
• Advanced ability to assess risk levels and act with speed and discretion
• Skilled in trauma-informed communication, both written and verbal
• Comfortable handling ambiguity, adapting workflows, and making judgment calls on the fly
• Effective communicator who can break down complex ideas clearly for varied audiences
• Strong writing skills for crafting case summaries, stakeholder updates, and escalation narratives
• Experience coaching or supporting peers, and contributing to cross-team collaboration

Offices: Gurugram, India

A Typical Day:

• Work with internal and external stakeholders, align team goals with organizational strategy, proactively identifying opportunities and adapting to evolving business priorities.
• Lead, mentor, and empower the team to achieve business goals, drive performance, and foster a high-performing team culture.
• Monitor KPIs and conversion metrics, ensuring continuous improvement through regular coaching and performance reviews.
• Enhance workflows, leverage automation, and implement AI-driven solutions to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Analyze trends, competitor strategies, and market opportunities to refine supply acquisition approaches.
• Lead high-impact projects, allocate resources effectively, and ensure timely execution aligned with strategic goals.
• Act as a key point of contact for global teams, defining business requirements and ensuring successful transitions.
• Track and analyze key performance metrics, identify improvement areas, and drive data-backed strategies for growth. Provide regular updates to leadership, ensuring transparency on project deliverables and challenges.

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in supply growth, project and operations management, with at least 4+ years in a leadership role overseeing teams and driving performance.
• Proven track record in setting up, scaling and process automation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams, influence decision-making, and align strategies with broader business objectives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in leveraging data insights to drive business decisions and improve efficiency.
• Experience in the travel, hospitality, or marketplace industries, with a deep understanding of supply acquisition, market trends, and competitive dynamics.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic, and evolving work environment.

Hybrid Work Requirements & Expectations:To support productivity and maintain a professional hybrid work environment, employees are expected to adhere to the following:

• Workspace : A dedicated, quiet, and private workspace free from interruptions and external noise
• Internet Connectivity : During the working hours, maintain a minimum and consistent internet speed of 10 Mbps on your official devices to ensure reliability for work-related tasks, including calls and virtual meetings
• Professionalism: Employees must remain fully engaged, respectful, and maintain a professional presence during virtual meetings, with video participation required unless otherwise approved.
• Confidentiality & Security: Employees are responsible for protecting Airbnb’s Intellectual Property and Confidential Information. Work-related activities, including calls and meetings, must not be conducted in public places, while traveling, or in any setting that may compromise confidentiality or work quality.

Offices: Gurugram, India

Stakeholder Management:

• Collaborate with executive-level management in the development of performance goals and long-term operational plans.
• Build and maintain relationships with all department heads, external partners and vendors to make decisions regarding operational activity and strategic goals.
• Educate stakeholders with standard transition methodology components, likely adaptations of the solution, as well as knowledge of recent transitions and changes that were made to the standard methodology.
• Ability to coordinate with stakeholders and ability to effectively address the needs and expectations.
• Ability to work with executive stakeholders and governance/report at the country leadership level.

Design and lead operations of multiple departments:

• Take end-to-end ownership of one or more departments.
• Define goals for your departments. This will require a thorough understanding of customer needs, both existing and potential.
• Define, implement and own the required org structure.
• Enable your team to ensure quality delivery in all these departments ○ Establish & execute benchmark Quality Assurance.

Design blueprint:

• Divide the solution proposed into multiple projects. Prioritize projects on the basis of impact and effort required.
• Construct, develop and execute key operational strategies.
• Develop and oversee service strategies in coordination with organizational goals and competencies.
• Produce, develop and refine Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) ○ Break down the projects further into actionable steps.
• Stitch the different steps together to form one comprehensive blueprint for the project.
• Seek input from peers to iterate. Present the blueprint to the senior management to get them on-board.

Implement:

• Define the approach for all the actionable steps.
• Build required processes with a focus on accuracy, efficiency and scalability. Try to automate as much as possible.
• Define and set up KPIs to monitor the health of the project.
• Prepare implementation guidelines. Identify resources to work with ○ Ensure training of personnel involved and identify specific/periodic training programs if need be.
• Solve queries raised by the team. If similar queries are raised frequently, incorporate in the implementation guidelines and train the team.

Monitor the growth and health of your Departments:

• Define and set up KPIs to monitor the health of the departments.
• Set up a monitoring protocol and design MIS reports.
• Manage escalated operations issues and determine proper Issue Resolution.
• Establish, deliver, manage and maintain the adoption of business controls that allow the organization to quickly identify trends and potential issues.
• Escalate in case of any non-compliance to set guidelines, quality issues etc.
• Identify New Projects from Department MIS and reviews. Modify blueprint and processes related to it which may lead to a better outcome.
• Evaluate regularly the efficiency of business procedures according to organizational objectives and apply improvements.

Hybrid Work Requirements & Expectations:

To support productivity and maintain a professional hybrid work environment, employees are expected to adhere to the following:

• Workspace : A dedicated, quiet, and private workspace free from interruptions and external noise
• Internet Connectivity : During the working hours, maintain a minimum and consistent internet speed of 10 Mbps on your official devices to ensure reliability for work-related tasks, including calls and virtual meetings
• Professionalism: Employees must remain fully engaged, respectful, and maintain a professional presence during virtual meetings, with video participation required unless otherwise approved.
• Confidentiality & Security: Employees are responsible for protecting Airbnb’s Intellectual Property and Confidential Information. Work-related activities, including calls and meetings, must not be conducted in public places, while traveling, or in any setting that may compromise confidentiality or work quality.

Offices: Gurugram, India

A Typical Day:

• Provide legal and strategic advice and counsel to internal clients and legal colleagues on a range of regional employment issues, including prevention of harassment and discrimination, anti-bribery and corruption, and ethics issues.
• Delivering clear, effective and practical legal advice to the Employee Experience team, including queries relating to employment laws, internal policies and workflow.
• Act as the presiding officer or a member of the Internal Complaints Committee in India constituted to redress concerns of sexual harassment at workplace.
• Independently support key Talent and Business partners on complex and challenging employment issues.
• Support the creation & management of our employment and compliance policies.
• Manage high-visibility, high-stakes employment & compliance issues, disputes, and investigations.
• Become a trusted and collaboration-oriented partner across Employee Experience functions in the Asia Pacific region.
• Support Airbnb’s commitment to building and maintaining a diverse workplace, free of discrimination and harassment.
• Drive cross-functional projects to improve our regional employment compliance.
• Effectively collaborate with regional and global colleagues, whether in APAC or globally, to provide globally aligned legal advice that appropriately balances domestic and global perspectives and needs.
• Keeping up to date with new developments in employment legislations

Your Expertise:

• Possesses a bachelor of law or its equivalent, and has qualified to practice in a major jurisdiction.
• At least 12 years of relevant experience post qualification.
• Fluency (reading/writing/speaking) in English is essential.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
• Consistently delivers creative, thoughtful and business-oriented results that appropriately balance growth and risk in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment.
• Ability to spot key risks, analyse and practically assess risk, and provide actionable recommendations.
• Intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity and risk, and excited by dynamic change.
• Organised, detail-oriented and methodical, and able to effectively manage projects, deadlines, audits and investigations, and crafting workflows, protocols and processes.
• Self-starter, driven and able to work autonomously while prioritizing competing tasks in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
• Empathetic, caring and humble.
• Entrepreneurial and business-orientated.
• Adaptable individual possessing high integrity and excellent judgment.
• International travel may be required.

Offices: Gurugram, India

The Community You Will Join:

You will work cross-functionally Supporting Trust initiatives, with the Support of Product, Service Managers, Regional Operations Managers, Operations Change Management, and Shared Services to deliver successful improvement projects with measurable positive impact and also transition these solutions to operations for sustained results

The Difference You Will Make:

• Build problem solving skills and capability within the teams through workshops, learning forums, playbooks
• Drive culture of continuous improvement within the teams
• Socialize Continuous Improvement with the stakeholders, understand the Key business requirements and build the CI strategy around them.
• Educate, build awareness and Program manage continuous improvement, FMEA framework. Identify risks & opportunities, create controls and build plans for implementation, Support business in setting up risk free operations / mitigate risks.
• People Management: Coach & mentor team members for enhanced roles and responsibilities, career growth, and Overall Development
• Streamline overall ways of working and identify opportunities for improvement
• Identify high impact opportunities, problem solve through data and process re-design and lead them to delivery

Strategy & Culture Building

• Develop and drive a culture of continuous improvement aligned with business objectives.
• Lead the CI strategy by identifying key business requirements and embedding structured problem-solving frameworks.
• Socialize the value of CI with stakeholders and establish it as a key lever for business growth.

Capability Development

• Build CI capabilities within teams via learning forums, workshops, and playbooks.
• Mentor and coach teams on RCA, Lean Six Sigma and FMEA frameworks.

Project Leadership

• Lead high-impact initiatives from concept to implementation using data, stakeholder insights, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Use project management methodologies to ensure timely and effective delivery of outcomes.

Operations Excellence

• Identify process gaps and lead re-design efforts to streamline ways of working
• Leverage large datasets for root cause analysis and influence business decisions with storytelling and insight-driven presentations.
• Translate business strategy into executable, scalable process improvements.

People Leadership

• Inspire and lead a team of Quality evaluators, driving their growth and readiness for future leadership roles.
• Foster a high-performance culture by aligning individual goals with organizational outcomes.

Your Expertise:

• A minimum of 6+ years of experience in Continuous Improvement, Process Design and process re-engineering.
• Any Post Graduate/graduate from the top ranked institutions - Preferred
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt/PMP
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Proven track-record of developing and delivering support with positive impact to business metrics
• Experienced in project management and engaging with cross-functional teams to successfully achieve business goals
• Comfortable with large data sets, able to derive insights and storytelling through presentations.
• Excellent analytical capability & ability to translate strategy into onground implementation
• Self starter comfortable working in ambiguous situations
• Excellent Storytelling capabilities
• Good understanding of the Industry relevant automation tools & Technologies. - Preferred
• Experience of working/ collaborating with product teams to bring improvements/ impact - preferred
• Design Thinking Practitioner, Agile/Project Management certification is a plus

:To support productivity and maintain a professional hybrid work environment, employees are expected to adhere to the following:

• Workspace: A dedicated, quiet, and private workspace free from interruptions and external noise
• Internet Connectivity: During the working hours, maintain a minimum and consistent internet speed of 10 Mbps on your official devices to ensure reliability for work-related tasks, including calls and virtual meetings
• Professionalism: Employees must remain fully engaged, respectful, and maintain a professional presence during virtual meetings, with video participation required unless otherwise approved.
• Confidentiality & Security:

Offices: Gurugram, India