Senior Manager, Platform Management - Community Experience

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · United States · Product Management

Senior Manager, Platform Management - Community Experience at Airbnb, focusing on designing and building products and platforms for customer support journeys. This role involves leading a team of managers, influencing product and platform roadmaps, and collaborating cross-functionally to enhance customer support experiences globally. Requires strong people leadership, strategic program management, product/platform development, customer support expertise, and data-driven decision-making.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide leadership and coaching to a team of CS Experience Managers and Platform Managers.
  2. Collaborate with senior leadership to align your team’s initiatives with the broader CS strategy.
  3. Ensure that all support-related aspects of new products, services, and policies are thoughtfully designed and effectively executed.
  4. Oversee a portfolio of programs, projects, and technologies, provide decision-making support to your team, remove blockers to progress and provide leadership visibility.
  5. Encourage your team to explore new approaches, tools, and technologies that can enhance both, the support experience and our ways of working.

Skills

Required

  • People leadership: Experience in managing and mentoring high-performing teams, with a focus on driving individual development and collective success.
  • Strategic program management: Extensive experience managing large-scale, cross-functional programs and initiatives. You are skilled in overseeing multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring alignment with broader organizational objectives.
  • Product and platform development: Experience solving complex problems with innovative technology solutions to improve customer experience and drive business results.
  • Customer support expertise: Deep understanding of CS operations and experience in improving customer experience through innovative support design and execution.
  • Data-driven decision-making: Strong ability to leverage data and analytics to drive insights, measure performance, and inform strategic decision-making. You should be comfortable working with data science and analytics teams.
  • Exceptional communication skills: Strong ability to present ideas, strategies, and outcomes to executive leadership and cross-functional partners in a clear, compelling manner.

Nice to have

  • MBA or relevant Master's degree is preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in customer support, management consulting, business operations or program management roles, with experience managing teams.