Programs & Business Operations Lead, Airbnb Services

The Community You Will Join:

The Chief Business Officer organization plays a pivotal role in driving the company’s growth and expansion efforts worldwide. Our teammates work on commercializing Airbnb’s new and existing businesses, helping Airbnb expand beyond its core offering as a place to stay. This includes recruiting and developing Airbnb’s global supply of high-quality stays, expanding beyond the core aspects of our product, and executing Airbnb’s global in market strategy. With this focus on business strategy, quality supply and international expansion, the team is leading the way for Airbnb’s continued growth and facilitation of millions more host and guest connections.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Programs & Business Operations Lead, you will play a pivotal role in driving the growth of the Airbnb's Services business. This role is pivotal in analyzing both the supply and demand for our new business across countries, travel corridors, and customer segments to better understand the drivers of key business, financial, and customer metrics. This role will focus on in-depth data analysis, metric definition, benchmark creation, experimentation, and synthesis to high-level insights for prioritization.Your attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities will be crucial to your success in this role.

A Typical Day:

• Conduct advanced analysis to extract actionable insights that inform strategic decisions across key geographical markets.


• Operational Excellence: Leverage your analytical skills to translate data-driven insights into actionable operational plans that enhance the performance of our Services business, and build efficiency into our systems.


• Define new metrics and identify leading indicators of key business outcomes


• Build dashboards to track key performance metrics across markets and customer segments to establish benchmarks


• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Provide valuable guidance and support to help Experience Hosts thrive within the Airbnb marketplace.


• Creativity: Be able to think outside the box to come up with novel ways of structuring incentives, business models, and ways of working to allow the business to be nimble and enable efficient scale.

Your Expertise:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience leading high-growth businesses, with a demonstrated ability to influence and align functional teams. Proven track record of building and scaling new businesses. Marketplace experience, particularly within a digital company, is preferred.


• Analytical & Strategic Skills: Strong analytical abilities combined with a deep understanding of guest needs and market dynamics. Ability to distill complex information into clear business strategies.


• Deep understanding of econometric and statistical analysis, and experience in applying these skills to derive insights from broad data sets.


• Communication & Leadership: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership.


• Cross-functional Collaboration: Expertise in driving collaboration across diverse teams, fostering transparency, accountability, and a unified vision.


• Adaptability & Innovation: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and working independently to execute complex programs. A strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and new product development.


• Business Operations: Proven experience in leading strategic and tactical execution within a large organization, with the ability to advise management on complex projects or issues.


• Process Improvement: Capable of self-learning and developing tools to enhance processes, interpreting business risks, and recommending best practices.


• Community Engagement: Strong enthusiasm for working closely with the Airbnb community, consistently demonstrating Airbnb’s core values and fostering a sense of belonging.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.