Programs and Business Operations Lead (16 Month Contract)

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · Canada · Business Operations/Analysis

This role is a Business Operations Lead for Airbnb's Canada team, focusing on scaling community growth and optimization programs. The individual will work closely with cross-functional leaders, analyze trends, present insights, and lead strategic projects. Key responsibilities include aligning functions, driving business operation meetings, analyzing macro/micro trends, supporting senior leaders on strategic projects, and owning the end-to-end execution of cross-functional initiatives. The role requires strong analytical, project management, and communication skills, with a minimum of 10 years of experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Align all functions in order to achieve objectives set up with the Country Manager.
  2. Drive regular business operation meetings and initiate meaningful conversations - leading weekly meetings with cross-functional project teams (field & online operations, marketing, product, legal) to ensure key initiatives are on track in Canada.
  3. Analyze macro and micro trends, and present analysis, insights, and actionable plans to Airbnb country and regional leadership team to drive key business decisions
  4. Support the Country Manager, Canada and other senior leaders on key strategic projects - lead and implement ad-hoc operational and strategic projects for Canada. May require coordination within local, regional and teams in San Francisco.
  5. Own the conception, execution, and measurement of cross-functional initiatives end-to-end. Concretely, this means defining a crisp problem statement, articulating the ideal solution to that problem, identifying key dependencies blocking that solution, and then working with cross-functional stakeholders to achieve the solution. These initiatives will span across the demand, supply, and regulatory surfaces of the business.

Skills

Required

  • Data modeling
  • Analytics
  • Project management
  • Written and verbal communication
  • Influencing cross-functional stakeholders
  • Ability to dive into details and zoom out to strategic context
  • Multi-tasking and prioritization
  • Organizational skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Process documentation
  • Experience implementing and scaling initiatives across globally dispersed teams
  • Experience working cross-functionally with multiple departments
  • Hands-on approach
  • Excel proficiency

Nice to have

  • SQL proficiency

What the JD emphasized

  • minimum of 10+ years of work experience
  • Comfort with manipulating large datasets in excel is a must