Senior Regulatory Operations Manager, Cities

Airbnb Airbnb · Consumer · United States · Business Operations/Analysis

This role focuses on managing and scaling regulatory compliance strategies and programs for Airbnb's Cities team globally. It involves developing and driving regulatory initiatives, leading scaled programs, managing cross-functional stakeholders, and analyzing strategic opportunities for risk reduction. The role requires strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, with experience in regulatory operations, compliance, or consulting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and drive regulatory initiatives that unlock supply growth and proactively address risks
  2. Lead the development and execution of successfully scaled programs across discrete compliance verticals.
  3. Create an operational rhythm and manage cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring initiatives are on track, and maintaining project documentation
  4. Analyze strategic opportunities for risk reduction across jurisdictions, partner with Engineering, Data Science, Policy and Legal to align roadmaps, and drive successful execution with measurable impact
  5. Support strategic projects to drive efficiency and effectiveness for the Operations team

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of work experience in regulatory operations, legal/policy compliance, consulting, project management, or related fields
  • Hands-on approach of getting things done with a sense of urgency and quickly adapting priorities to unexpected changes to achieve project goals and objectives
  • Proven track record navigating a matrixed organization and building relationships to achieve goals with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, data science, and policy
  • Strong analytical skills, including creating and using data, to understand problems, communicate opportunities, and make informed decisions.
  • Ability to make decisions balancing short-term gains with long-term strategic positioning
  • Excellent organizational skills with high attention to detail and quality
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, excellent presentation skills
  • Intellectually curious, open-minded self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and risk and excited by dynamic change

Nice to have

  • SQL knowledge is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory compliance
  • cross-functional teams
  • Data Science