Supervisor, Community Support

About Airbnb: Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique travel experiences around the world. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week or a villa for a month, Airbnb allows people to Belong Anywhere through unique travel experiences at any price point, in more than 85,000 cities and over 191 countries. We promote a culture of curiosity, humanity, and creativity through our product, brand, and, most importantly, our people.

About Airbnb Capability Center: Airbnb Capability Center was set up in 2017 in Gurgaon to service the global Airbnb community. We are a fast-growing, up-and-coming office and home to the most hospitable people you will ever meet! Our small and extremely capable team of Gurgaon-based colleagues strive to make the impossible happen for our inbound and outbound travelers within this big and diverse market. Airbnb Capability Center is providing varied services under Community Support thereby providing world-class customer experience to our customers. Besides this, Airbnb Capability Center is also building deep capabilities for different verticals like Homes, Finance Technology Group, Finance Shared Services, Analytics, Engineering, etc.

The Community You Will Join:

You would be joining a dynamic team in Community Support as a Supervisor and will be responsible to manage the team of specialists who would support the worldwide Airbnb community with their friendly and efficient ways of service. You will be needed to partner with Quality, Compliance, Training, Workforce Management and other functions to drive your team towards excellence through regular performance feedback and developing members of the team to ensure career growth.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Strengthen and maintain site’s position in the network as #1 Site on a consistent basis
• Ensure team’s success on key metrics such as NPS and Ownership among others
• Ensure timely and quality support to the Airbnb Community

A Typical Day:

• Drive the team to meet and exceed metric expectations; understand how to leverage the team to improve outcomes and take action to meet goals through regular check-ins.
  
  • Keep up with day-to-day management duties such as scheduling, shift approvals, team and one-on-one meetings.
  • Be a confident problem solver, come up with data driven insights and create a solutions orientated environment.
• Identify and implement improvement opportunities
• Constantly evaluate workflows and find ways for them to be more efficient, relevant and valuable both internally and externally
  
  • Understand the top user issues and make recommendations to improve Airbnb products and policies; support the team in being the voice of the customer to the rest of the company.
  • Stay connected to the customer by spending at least one hour/week working on tickets and handling occasional escalated issues.
  • Balance and prioritize the above based on seasonality and the needs of customers, team and Airbnb.
  • Lead and/or participate in projects outside of the scope of your department, as assigned by your manager.

Your Expertise:

• Fluency in English, both verbal and written.
• Passionate about customer experience, understands the importance to Airbnb.
• The candidate must be leading a customer facing team in their current role, where user feedback is a key success metric.
  
  • Experience leading, inspiring, coaching and motivating others to meet goals and metrics.
  • Strong analytical skills; able to tell a story with data and metrics.
• Prior track record of Innovation and focus on execution
  
  • Clear, concise communicator who can build collaborative and positive relationships.
  • Flexibility and adaptability, able to work well in an ambiguous environment.
  • Works well in ambiguity and embraces the adventure
  • Should be comfortable with flexible shift timings (24*7 shifts).

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.

Location:

Gurugram