Manager Business Process Improvement

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"><strong>The Community You Will Join:&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>The Service Optimization team is a key operational function within Global Service Optimization, focused on making Airbnb's Community Support more efficient, effective, and adaptable. You'll lead a team of Business Process Improvement analysts and leads, working at the intersection of people, process, and technology. This role collaborates closely with cross-functional partners across Community Support, operational working groups, and broader business stakeholders to drive systemic, continuous improvement.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"><strong>The Difference You Will Make:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>The BPI Manager will be a key leader within the Service Optimization team, part of the Community Service Organization. This role will deepen the team's discipline across both continuous improvement and proactive process engineering, designing systems where problems do not occur while continuously improving the processes that exist today. A key focus will be engineering processes that are reliable, measurable, automatable, and self-correcting by default, while driving a systemic view across people, process, and technology that keeps pace with the evolving capabilities of AI and automation.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;"><strong>A Typical Day:&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong>Leadership Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Manage a team of business process improvement analysts and leads.</li> <li>Build and strengthen team capabilities in problem solving, systems thinking, process design, and engineering systems for AI-readiness and automation by default.</li> <li>Lead the team in operating across both continuous improvement and proactive process engineering, applying the right discipline to each problem, improving what exists and designing systems that prevent failure from the start.</li> <li>Apply systems thinking to every initiative, mapping full upst