Operations Data & Technology Strategy Lead

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · United States · Operations

This role leads strategy for global operations process improvement, driving business requirements, influencing system design, and enabling business workflows through technical tools and data-driven decision-making. It requires extensive experience in operations, process improvement, and managing technical systems, with a focus on continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead business requirements from Ops and communicate requirements to cross-functional teams, facilitate discussion and influence system design, architecture, and prioritization to get Ops requirements on the respective cross-functional teams’ roadmap
  2. Collaborate with Product Management and other cross-functional stakeholders, including Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics, and Shared Services, to drive alignment on overall business goals and requirements and establish an operating rhythm to optimize product and process improvements while fostering innovation
  3. Facilitate identification of areas for inefficiencies/improvement and opportunities for innovation from an operational standpoint as well as market trends and competitive landscape geared towards improving customer experience and optimizing cost
  4. Be the Subject Matter Expertise on Technical Tools and Processes for Ops across all Trust domains and stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies and competitive landscape
  5. Be a champion of a data-driven decision making approach and culture to drive continuous performance improvement

Skills

Required

  • Master / Bachelor Degree in Engineering, or Science
  • 10 years of experience in front office or back office operations related field
  • minimum 6 years experience in a process improvement in evaluating, implementing and managing tools and technologies
  • Experience driving continuous process improvement to optimize workflows and reduce operational bottlenecks
  • Strong data-driven analytical abilities
  • proven performance in operation problem-solving
  • strong experience in delivering quality assurance processes to maintain high standards of quality in back office operations as well as tools
  • Demonstrated ability to interact and work effectively across functional teams and at multiple levels within the organization
  • Proven organizational and leadership skills
  • Ability to build strong relationships and partner with key stakeholders
  • manage multiple task simultaneously with minimal direction
  • Proactive and autonomous
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience implementing system designs conforming to multi-year product or technology strategy
  • Experience as solutions architect or equivalent experience driving end to end business enablement

Nice to have

  • Engineering background is preferred
  • Lean and Agile methodology culture

What the JD emphasized

  • process improvement
  • managing tools and technologies
  • system design
  • technical tools
  • data-driven