In Community Policy, our mission is to create and evolve principled policies that create the rules of the road for Guests and Hosts across Airbnb. This involves solving some of the most complex Trust & Safety challenges of our time. Our work is informed by rigorous research and stakeholder collaboration, and we design policies that can support our community at scale. We team with our cross-functional partners to create accessible policy enforcement guides and to continuously maintain and improve our policies.
The Difference You Will Make:
As Community Policy Sr Manager in the area of Safety on the Community Policy & Global Partnerships team, your work will help keep the Airbnb community safe through building and implementing internal policies and working with our agents to enforce them. You will work across the business and with external stakeholders to continuously evaluate and improve our policies and to handle new issues as they arise. Your work will address areas such as women’s safety, physical safety, harm prevention and global risk assessment. This role will have a direct impact on the peace of mind of millions of Airbnb customers around the world. By facilitating improvements to guest and host policies across Airbnb, folks in this role can directly influence the experience all users have on our platform, potentially alleviating friction and fostering peace of mind for millions of Airbnb customers around the world.
A Typical Day:
Solve some of the most complex issues and challenges related to policies that govern and guide mutli-dimensional platforms across global communities.
Work as part of a global team to research and draft data-driven policies focused on the area of Safety, as scoped and prioritized with the team.
Foster, build, and maintain relationships with leadership of internal business verticals, including executive level stakeholders
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across the business including but not limited to Operations, Public Policy, Legal, Product, Communications and Business Development.
Serve as subject matter expert to provide sound policy guidance for time-sensitive escalations, including from Operations and company leadership.
Guide policy operationalization efforts in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders throughout the business.
Gather data and insight to inform Community Policy project prioritization.
Your Expertise:
12+ years experience in an Operations, Policy, Legal, or Trust and Safety role with exposure to safety issues and working closely with global, cross-functional partner teams.
A track record of strong leadership
Demonstrated capacity for critical thinking, research, and analysis; strong attention to detail
Exceptional writing and editing abilities
Thoughtful business judgment, strategic thinking, and ability to work well under pressure
Experience working in a matrix and driving solutions to complex problems through cross-functional collaboration
Fluency in data analysis and leading data-driven decision-making
Ability to explain and simplify complex information to others
Effective time management with the ability to prioritize and a bias towards action and execution.
Experience working closely with operations teams, preferably in the Trust and Safety space.
SQL and other skills for research using data sets
About you:
You are a seasoned Safety Policy leader, with experience working on policies related to preventing real-world harm, women’s safety, and public safety
You are an experienced communicator, with exceptional writing skills
You are an adept presenter, with experience engaging with all levels of leadership, including senior executive audiences and C-Suite.
You love solving complex problems by developing consistent rules that can be applied at scale.
You bring a rigorous approach to research and analysis and can clearly propose policy options and their implications.
You are a team player who thrives in a fast-moving environment and brings a strategic mindset and bias toward execution.
You are principled, precise and have meticulous attention to detail.