Operations Lead, Engagement

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:

The Enterprise Operations organization at Airbnb is instrumental in powering the company's growth and expansion on a global scale. Through AI and people-powered operations, this team maximizes the effectiveness, utilization, and impact of our supply, ensuring hosts and guests can seamlessly connect.

The Supply Management team, within the Enterprise Operations organization, has a mission to ensure high quality supply at scale globally across homes, experiences, services, and hotels. The Engagement team, part of Supply Management, works closely with internal and cross-functional partners to onboard and support high-quality supply. We interact with our Host community through written and voice-activated channels, ensuring strong engagement and continuous improvement.

The Difference You Will Make:

As an Operations Lead, Engagement, you will lead strategic and day-to-day operations that drive efficiency, scalability, and growth across key business functions. You will oversee complex projects, and ensure operational excellence in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

You will play a pivotal role in designing, executing, and optimizing host outreach initiatives aimed at delivering against business priorities while engaging and supporting our host community. Partnering closely with cross-functional teams including Community, Product and Data Analytics, you’ll ensure campaigns drive measurable business outcomes.

This high-impact role is designed for a seasoned leader who thrives on problem-solving, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering results.

A Typical Day:

• Develop and implement operational strategies that support broader company objectives and team goals.

• Lead high-priority projects from conception to execution, ensuring alignment with business priorities.

• Design and manage end-to-end host outreach campaigns to support business priorities (e.g., new product launches, policy updates, education). Coordinate campaign calendars, ensuring effective sequencing and minimal overlap.

• Work cross-functionally to align on campaign objectives and deliverables. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure all resources and campaign assets are available, functioning, and aligned with campaign timelines.

• Maintain a deep understanding of host needs, pain points, and motivations. Ensure campaigns are empathetic, actionable, and build host trust.

• Develop and document scalable campaign management processes, templates, and playbooks.

• Identify and implement opportunities for automation and efficiency.

• Set up and maintain robust tracking mechanisms to monitor campaign performance, including data collection, analytics, and reporting tools. Regularly review performance metrics, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to stakeholders.

• Use data and feedback to measure campaign effectiveness; identify areas for improvement and implement optimizations. Share insights and results with leadership and advise on best practices for future outreach.

• Oversee the selection, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of the systems, platforms, and tools required to execute outreach campaigns. Ensure these tools are properly integrated and optimized for efficiency and continuously assess them, recommending upgrades or changes to improve reliability, scalability, and effectiveness.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years’ experience in operations, program management, or campaign management, preferably in a tech or marketplace environment.

• Excellent project management and organizational abilities.

• Effective communicator with experience influencing cross-functional teams.

• A passion for community building and user engagement.

• Ability to lead and drive initiatives across a matrixed organization, solve problems, and influence cross-functional teams.

• Detail-oriented and strong multi-tasker with ability to manage multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously.

• Demonstrated experience in customer success including proactive voice outreach initiatives to engage, support, and retain clients.

• Demonstrated success managing multi-channel campaigns from concept through execution and analysis.

• Strong analytical skills; comfort with campaign dashboards and metrics.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid change.

• Experience in the tech or marketplace industry is preferred.

• Airtable proficiency and Salesforce expertise is preferred.

Your Location:

This position is Canada - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a province where Airbnb Canada, Inc. has a registered entity. Currently we can hire in the following provinces: Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with your recruiter on what provinces you are eligible to work from.

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.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

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.

Canada Annual Pay Range
$126,000—$157,000 CAD