The Community You Will Join:

The Chief Business Officer organization plays a pivotal role in driving the company’s growth and expansion efforts worldwide. Our teammates work on commercializing Airbnb’s new and existing businesses, helping Airbnb expand beyond its core offering as a place to stay. This includes recruiting and developing Airbnb’s global supply of high-quality stays, Experiences, and services, and executing Airbnb’s global in market strategy. With this focus on business strategy, quality supply and international expansion, the team is leading the way for Airbnb’s continued growth and facilitation of millions more host and guest connections.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Global Business Growth Lead (internal title: Senior Programs and Business Operations Lead, Global Experiences), you will play a pivotal role in driving the global expansion of Experiences business across key markets around the world. With a global focus, you will be responsible for taking our core strategy, and work with the teams around the world to implement a regionally nuanced strategy. You will be responsible for developing and executing innovative strategies that align cross-functional teams, enabling rapid growth and ensuring the highest quality services for our guests and hosts worldwide. Your attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities will be crucial to your success in this role.

A Typical Day:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement strategic plans that drive growth for Airbnb's Experiences business across various regions and experience categories. Navigate and address regional and category-specific challenges and opportunities. Lead recurring performance meetings across leadership and functional teams to deliver results, including regional and top markets cuts.
• Cross-functional Alignment: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product marketing, finance, marketing, sales operations, and supply, to achieve shared objectives that deliver meaningful business results. Work with regional teams to also translate global targets and initiatives into local directives.
• Global Expansion: Lead cross-border projects to accelerate the global expansion of the Experiences business, ensuring alignment with global team goals and Airbnb’s long-term goals. Architect regular competitive evaluations across global markets to ensure optimal supply and demand levers are being met.
• Operational Excellence: Leverage your analytical skills to translate data-driven insights into actionable operational plans that enhance the performance of our experiences business.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Own relationships between our central global team and our local markets to ensure key cross-functional stakeholders stay aligned on priorities and goals.
• Innovation & Growth: Own and influence the business outcomes of this high-growth area, strategically planning for the next phases of expansion.
• Pricing: Analyze and deliver competitive pricing models across global markets, with proper regional nuance and understanding.

Your Expertise:

• Experience: 12+ years of experience leading high-growth businesses, with a demonstrated ability to influence and align functional teams. Proven track record of building and scaling new businesses. Experience in the experience and activity industry, particularly within a digital company, is preferred.
• 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.
• Communication & Leadership: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership.
• Global Experience: Experience working across countries and markets, especially in taking a global strategy and adapting to local markets
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Expertise in driving collaboration across diverse teams, fostering transparency, accountability, and a unified vision.
• Adaptability & Innovation: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and working independently to execute complex programs. A strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and new product development.
• Business Operations: Proven experience in leading strategic and tactical execution within a large organization, with the ability to advise management on complex projects or issues.
• Process Improvement: Capable of self-learning and developing tools to enhance processes, interpreting business risks, and recommending best practices.
• Community Engagement: Strong enthusiasm for working closely with the Airbnb community, consistently demonstrating Airbnb’s core values and fostering a sense of belonging.

Your Location:

This position is US - 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 state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states 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.

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Offices: United States