Senior Community Engagement Manager

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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

Every day, millions of Airbnb hosts around the world create comfortable, reliable and welcoming stays and Experiences for our guests. Hosting on Airbnb offers a unique way to meet our Hosts’ financial goals but the rewards for opening their home or sharing a passion go beyond their bank account. Hosting also offers the opportunity to impact their local community, share their culture and connect with people they wouldn’t have met otherwise.

Our Hosting organization exists to bring a wider array of diverse Hosts into the Airbnb Community, support their success, earn their trust, and ensure their safety and security.  As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, Airbnb aspires to lead the travel industry with an entirely new form of community-powered travel, where creatively-led design is at the core of our offering. We know that our global community of hosts is one of Airbnb’s most precious assets and we are very intentional on how we nurture the common identity of being an Airbnb Host.

The Difference You Will Make

The Airbnb team is looking for a Senior Community Engagement Manager to build and lead a Regional Host Community strategy. You will help implement and iterate on Community programs that engage Hosts at scale, such as the Host Clubs program and Host events, while also innovating and testing new methods that can influence and strengthen the global strategy.

You will partner with the central Host Community team, the Commercial (revenue and sales ops) team, Public Policy, Communications, and other partners to pilot new projects, tactics and/or initiatives that can be scaled into broader cross-functional programs.

You will foster shared virtual and physical gatherings that build Host-to-Host connection and learning, while also strengthening the Host community’s sense of connection and partnership with the Airbnb team. 

The ideal candidate has extensive Community experience and knowledge, especially in developing Community strategies as well as building and maintaining programs that connect and engage at scale.

A Typical Day

Overall:

• Act as the primary bridge between the local Airbnb team and a regional Host Community, coordinating and prioritizing cross functional activities that entail community action.
• Lead Community growth, engagement and impact projects and initiatives from planning to delivery. This includes developing project plans, collaborating with cross-functional teams, coordinating multiple stakeholders, identifying project risks and crafting mitigation plans.
• Develop and execute local Community Programs with clear communication, efficient resource usage, and a deep focus on overall project execution.

Community Growth:

• Recruit, onboard, and manage new Community Leaders and launch Host Clubs
• Growing Host representation in Host Clubs
• Testing new methods for connecting Hosts across <territory>

Community Engagement:

• Design effective initiatives and content strategies to drive Host engagement in Community programs and foster conversation
• Serve as the primary POC and coach for local Community Leaders: advising and coaching them, while also remediating and replacing inactive Leaders
• Support global Community Engagement Programming and evolve for local language and needs
• Educate Community Leaders on all significant product changes and cascading feedback on product and policy to the relevant internal stakeholders
• Organize and lead effective Community events, both online and in-person

Community Impact: 

• Support the development, execution and scale of in-market pilots that leverage Community programs to better support Hosts, driving Host Success and accelerating business goals.
• Develop resources, engaging and high impact communications, and training materials for cross functional business partners.
• Work with relevant regional stakeholders to help them leverage and collaborate with the Host Community and help them identify and test new opportunities to do so. 
• Influence regional prioritization, process improvement, and program feedback.
• Develop deep knowledge of your assigned geographic markets and become the go-to source for all Host Community information relating to local needs, trends and market dynamics for internal and external partners.
• Act as a go to for Community team wit