Airbnb The Programs & Business Operations Lead at Airbnb drives strategic growth initiatives for the Experiences business. This role owns demand strategy for priority markets and leads global cross-functional programs to scale the business.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement strategic plans that drive growth for Airbnb's Experiences business. Navigate and address market and category-specific challenges and opportunities, and work to prioritize across many different lenses.
Ownership of Business Growth: You will be the DRI for driving demand for the Experiences business, both for a selection of key markets, as well as how those markets play into the global business.
Cross-functional Alignment: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, finance, marketing, community, communications, sales operations, and supply, to achieve shared objectives that deliver meaningful business results.
Operational Excellence: Leverage your analytical skills to translate data-driven insights into actionable operational plans that enhance the performance of our experiences business, and build efficiency into our systems.
Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Serve as a trusted advisor by translating complex data and market dynamics into clear recommendations and business context.
Innovation & Growth: Own and influence the business outcomes of this high-growth area, strategically planning for the next phases of expansion.
Creativity: Be able to think outside the box to come up with novel ways of structuring incentives, business models, and ways of working to allow the business to be nimble and enable efficient scale.
Experience: 10+ years of experience leading complex growth initiatives or business programs in high-growth environments, with a demonstrated ability to influence and align functional teams. Proven track record of building and scaling new businesses. Experience in the consumer services industry, particularly within a digital company, is preferred.
Go-to-market Expertise: Direct experience launching and scaling growth initiatives, such as paid marketing, referral programs, ambassador programs, distribution partnerships, affiliates, and creative growth experiments.
Analytical & Strategic Skills: Strong analytical abilities combined with a deep understanding of guest needs and market dynamics. Ability to distill complex information into clear business strategies.
Rapid Test & Learn: As one of Airbnb’s new business lines, it is critical to not only leverage the known channels that work, but to quickly identify new ideas for driving growth, align relevant stakeholders, and quickly test to understand viability.
Prioritization: Constantly able to understand opportunities and costs to prioritize time and resource investment.
