Airbnb · Ireland
Regional Operations Manager, Premium Support
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 b...
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million
hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique
stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community You Will Join:
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic candidate to provide exceptional Customer Service management to the Airbnb community
as a Regional Operations Manager. The ideal candidate is hospitable, analytical, and committed to delivering the highest standards
of service through coaching and upleveling their team. This is a full time position based in Ireland.
The Difference You will Make:
The Regional Operations Manager supports one or more internal CS services. The Regional Operations Manager is an operational
leadership role that requires substantial experience in customer service and team management. Regional Operations Managers oversee
teams of approximately 4-8 people managers who each manage teams of 8-15 support agents. ROMs should have the ability to guide and
uplevel their team members, demonstrating top-level coaching skills and operations management knowledge. Strong organizational
skills and the ability to balance real-time and planned work are also required. They should also be adaptable and responsive in
our fast paced environment, sometimes under pressure, while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, efficient and
demonstrating a high level of professionalism and confidentiality.
A Typical Day:
Oversee a strong operational environment for your teams and ensure high quality support for the community from your team
- Manage the team execution of complex, sensitive, and/or urgent issues that might pose a significant risk to our brand or
community, including acting as the highest escalation point for case consults and high level escalations from other
stakeholders
- Meet with your direct reports regularly to review their work and provide high quality, behavior-based coaching; must be able to
create a performance development strategy/plan for your service(s).
- Provide best practices guidelines to your team on how to handle cases and situations, and ensure that ways of working are
documented and followed.
- Ensure that the team is consistently staffed appropriately and that staff complete onboarding and ongoing trainings.
- For cases that involve internal stakeholders, guide your team to take proper action to case closure and in rare cases, support
with in-the-weeds case handling.
- Collaborate with Capacity Planning & WFP on setting minimum headcount, ensuring adequate coverage, contingency planning impacts
of changes, and advocating for staffing needs vs. volume/work
Drive performance at the team manager, regional, and service level
- Ensure individual team members are held accountable to performance goals in a fair and equitable manner by setting clear
expectations, following-up individually, and coaching team members positively to develop and improve their skills in a tailored
way
- Manage both team manager and regional performance, including identifying trends in performance, providing corrective actions
and positive overall feedback, and writing year end reviews and improvement plans
- Ability to set and articulate the vision and focus for the quarter; deliver that vision and focus through all hands-type
meetings
- Share input and recommendations about service target setting.
- Provide oversight on the overall service performance and contribute to reporting on trends and providing a holistic picture of
the service to the Delivery Director
Build and nurture an engaged and diverse team
- Own and manage end-to-end people strategy and operations within your team to foster a high performing and sustainable team
environment. This includes hiring, driving onboarding, talent development, and people engagement/wellness/morale
- Enable team and individual professional success through supporting and challenging your team to meet and exceed expectations
with clear goals/expectations, feedback, one-on-ones, and coaching
- Support team in professional development within team by finding and creating development opportunities and leveraging
company-wide resources to regularly drive development within your team.
- Keep up with day-to-day management duties such as time off approvals, team and one-on-one meetings, and managing Talent-related
issues
- Maintain a culture of openness, transparency and accountability allowing our teams to deliver their best work while being
themselves
- Demonstrate strong leadership on important issues including Diversity & Belonging, Allyship, Ethics, Compliance and maintaining
high standards of service to the company
Support strategic initiatives within Delivery and your service as needed
- Lead the team toward the successful execution of company or other strategic changes or goals within your service by cascading
updates and changes, communicating new requirements, and providing feedback
- Support, as needed, internal Delivery performance & operations improvement projects, in collaboration with the Delivery
Excellence team and cross-functional partners
- Think critically and constantly evaluate our procedures. Collect feedback from the team to identify opportunities to improve
performance and better optimize processes for the team, service, and global community
Your Expertise:
YOUR BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE
- 8+ years of progressive experience in a customer service or an operations role, with 5 years in a role directly managing staff
& the employee lifecycle, ideally managing other managers
- Demonstrable experience in driving improved performance of teams as a manager
- Experience in the deployment of resources to manage real-time crisis situations, including managing high severity/sensitivity
cases and decision-making authority for losses
- Experience in data analysis and reporting to identify performance trends, as well as developing and implementing performance
management standards
- Experience translating big picture goals and strategy into implementable and concrete actions for your teams, including setting
operational or functional targets or performance goals
- Ability to work weekend days, holidays, and on-call required
YOUR SKILLS & EXPERTISE
- Exceptional leadership and team management skills to manage a team of professionals - comfort with conflict, giving and
receiving feedback, and handling employee/Talent issues
- Strong communication skills to collaborate with different stakeholders and manage sensitive cases, while remaining calm and
poised under pressure
- Organized and resourceful; able to juggle and multi-task, with an attention to detail and follow through even in ambiguous
situations
- In-depth understanding of customer service operations and processes; able to translate that to your team
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities to evaluate procedures and identify opportunities for improvement
- Ability to cascade with context and lead your team through changes
- Exceptional coaching skills, you have high EQ and know how to tailor your feedback & communication style to meet the needs of
your coachee or mentee
- Cultural competency and a strong commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion within the team
- Proficiency in various data analysis and reporting tools to track performance trends (tableau, SQL, Excel, Google Sheets, etc.)
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement,
and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals
are encouraged to apply.
How We'll Take Care of You:
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training,
transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range shown below is annualized, is subject
to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel
Credits.
Ireland Annual Pay Range
€96.000—€120.000 EUR
Role
Regional Operations Manager, Premium Support
Category
Kundtjänstpersonal
Locations
Published
June 11
Deadline
August 16