Partner Operations Manager

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · São Paulo, Brazil · Community Support

This role is for a Partner Operations Manager at Airbnb, supporting the global Delivery function by driving partner and service performance. The manager will be accountable for the performance of their partners and services, focusing on operationalizing business process outsourcing. Responsibilities include managing day-to-day operations, driving continuous improvement, collecting feedback, collaborating with regional markets and internal functions, and ensuring high-quality support for the community. The role requires 8+ years of experience in customer service or operations, with 5+ years in partner management or BPO environments, strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, and excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Accountable and responsible for the holistic performance of a partner or service or language. Enable and oversee a strong operational environment for your partners and services and ensure high quality support for the community from your partners
  2. Ensure alignment with Global CS Delivery
  3. Support and drive strategic initiatives within Delivery and your service
  4. Identify and drive partner and service level continuous improvement opportunities that enhance performance, both day to day tactical and strategic forward looking
  5. Collect feedback and be the voice of our community and partners to improve performance and optimize processes for the partner, service and global community

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in a customer service or an operations role
  • 5+ years in a partner management, BPO environment
  • Demonstrable experience in driving improved performance as a partner/Regional Operations manager
  • Experience in the deployment of resources to manage real-time crisis situations, including managing high severity/sensitivity cases and decision-making authority for losses
  • Experience in data analysis and reporting to identify performance trends, as well as developing and implementing performance management standards
  • Demonstrable experience translating big picture goals and strategy into implementable and concrete actions for your partners
  • Ability to work weekend days and on-call required
  • Able to travel in Europe, APAC and NA when required
  • Exceptional partner and stakeholder management
  • In depth understanding of business process outsourcing at scale, holding partners accountable for their performance and prioritizing the high impact areas
  • Exceptional performance management at scale - setting clear goals, expectations and actions while continuously driving success metrics
  • Strong data driven decision making with root cause analysis - ability to understand the data to derive to objective decisions
  • Strong communication, data driven storytelling and influencing skills - to present to leadership and collaborate with different stakeholders and manage time sensitive situations, while remaining calm and poised under pressure
  • Organized, structured and resourceful - able to juggle and multi-task, with an attention to detail and follow through even in ambiguous situations
  • Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities at scale - to evaluate procedures and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Strong proficiency in various data analysis and reporting tools to track performance trends (tableau, salesforce, SQL, Excel, Google Sheets, etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • partner management
  • BPO environment
  • driving improved performance
  • partner/Regional Operations manager
  • data analysis and reporting
  • performance management standards
  • big picture goals and strategy into implementable and concrete actions
  • work weekend days and on-call required
  • travel in Europe, APAC and NA when required
  • business process outsourcing at scale
  • holding partners accountable for their performance
  • performance management at scale
  • data driven decision making
  • root cause analysis
  • data driven storytelling
  • time sensitive situations
  • ambiguous situations
  • Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities at scale