Safety Specialist

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · Gurgaon, India · Community Support

This role is a Safety Specialist at Airbnb, focusing on handling complex safety concerns for users, including personal safety threats, domestic violence, child exploitation, and human trafficking. The role requires excellent communication, judgment, and decision-making skills to support survivors and restore their status quo. It involves interacting with customers, managing multiple cases, and collaborating with management and other teams. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in customer service, mediation, emergency services, or Trust & Safety operations, with the ability to work in a high-pressure environment and maintain confidentiality.

What you'd actually do

  1. Handle cases with complexities with the highest level of service
  2. Develop a deep understanding of complex workflows and follow them, while still retaining the ownership mentality and skill to question and deviate from the workflow when needed, in collaboration with your management team.
  3. Recognize case type/severity and work cases correctly according to your service’s scope, escalating accurately to other teams when appropriate
  4. Understand how to summarize user issues and escalate to leadership as needed
  5. Manage multiple user cases at the same time while remaining efficient, professional and organized

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of relevant experience in customer service, mediation, emergency services, Trust & Safety operations, or a similar role operating in a contact center environment making calls and handling customer/client contacts
  • Ability to work weekend days and public holidays required, as well as evening shifts. Your schedule can change to meet business needs
  • Ability to work in a high-pressure environment interacting with sensitive, confidential, and potentially traumatic imagery, conversations, and other materials.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and spoken, including conflict resolution.
  • Ownership mentality and business mindset, with ability to drive work forward even in ambiguous situations
  • Ability to manage your own time, plan, prioritize and organize tasks, and to work within prescribed schedules including breaks, lunches, and training time.
  • Ability to understand and execute policies & procedures.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality during investigation.
  • Is able to demonstrate an understanding of how to handle sensitive situations related to personal safety, including assessing the level of risk of the situation.
  • Ideally has experience dealing with stakeholders in different functions and is able to communicate clearly in writing about cases for larger audiences.

Nice to have

  • Hospitality experience is a plus, in particular working for technology platforms.

What the JD emphasized

  • highest level of service
  • highest level of professionalism
  • confidentiality
  • sensitive, confidential, and potentially traumatic imagery, conversations, and other materials
  • confidentiality during investigation