Business Operations and Growth Lead

🏢 Airbnb · 📍 United States · 💼 onsite 💰 $168,000 - $168,000 / yr
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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 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 strategy in the market. With a focus on business strategy, quality supply and international expansion, the team is leading the way for Airbnb’s continued growth and success in its next chapter. 

The Global Markets Team, which sits within CBO, ensures that Airbnb is locally relevant and serves the needs of our global hosts and guests, helping regions more efficiently plan and execute growth strategies across supply, demand, and other surfaces in a way that will resonate with our communities. 

The Difference You Will Make: 

You will work closely with the cross-functional leaders and teams, and play a key role in scaling our community growth and optimization-focused programs. The successful candidate will report to the Director, Programs and Business Operations. 

A Typical Day: 

  • Align all functions  to achieve Americas’s regional business objectives in partnership with the Director, Regional Business Operations and Growth.
  • Own the conception, execution, and measurement of cross-functional initiatives end-to-end. Concretely, this means defining a crisp problem statement, articulating the ideal solution to that problem, identifying key dependencies blocking that solution, and then working with cross-functional stakeholders to achieve the solution. These initiatives will span across the demand, supply, and regulatory surfaces of the business. 
  • Drive regular business operation meetings and initiate m
🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Airbnb Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Assessing relentless product craftsmanship, high agency, and deep adherence to Airbnb's core values, particularly 'Be a Host' and 'Champion the Mission'.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Relying heavily on corporate jargon or bureaucratic phrasing instead of direct, authentic communication.
  • 2. Showing a lack of passion for travel, community building, or the specific ethos of belonging anywhere.
  • 3. Blaming cross-functional partners or previous teams for product delivery failures.
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I build products that fiercely protect the user experience by stripping away friction and focusing entirely on human-centric craftsmanship.

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