Planning & Business Operations Lead

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · United States · Financial Planning and Analysis

This role is for a Planning & Business Operations Lead within Airbnb's Community Blueprint team. The primary focus is on supporting the operational backbone of the team, owning portfolio rhythms, central tooling, and cross-functional execution to translate insights into action. The role involves aligning stakeholders, establishing governance and reporting, and ensuring teams have the necessary structures and data for impact. Success is defined by creating a trusted source of truth for scope and status, providing clear portfolio health visibility, ensuring crisp team cadences, and reducing manual work through automation. The role requires strong program management, business operations, and tooling ownership experience, with a preference for experience in customer experience, trust/safety, or support operations.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the planning and business operations engine for Community Blueprint:
  2. Own productivity tooling for Community Blueprint and source-of-truth assets:
  3. Drive cross-functional program delivery from problem identification to solution execution:
  4. Create leadership-ready narratives and business cases:
  5. Up-level how we work:

Skills

Required

  • Program Management
  • BizOps
  • PMO roles
  • cross-functional programs end-to-end
  • portfolio management
  • OKRs
  • roadmapping
  • governance
  • decision forums
  • tooling ownership
  • collaborative/portfolio systems administration
  • dashboard creation
  • workflow translation into system design
  • project management fundamentals
  • critical path
  • dependency/risk management
  • stage gates
  • change control
  • stakeholder alignment
  • analytical storytelling
  • leadership-ready narratives
  • action-oriented recommendations
  • basic SQL
  • executive presence
  • written/oral communication
  • influencing across functions and levels
  • thrives in ambiguity
  • structure, prioritization, and focus
  • calm under pressure

Nice to have

  • customer experience
  • trust/safety
  • fraud/risk
  • quality
  • support operations
  • integrating Airtable with Jira
  • interface design for stakeholder-friendly views
  • standing up standardized taxonomies
  • executive forum operations
  • portfolio reporting

What the JD emphasized

  • cross-functional execution
  • tooling ownership experience
  • customer experience
  • trust/safety
  • fraud/risk
  • quality
  • support operations