Senior Platform Manager, Trust and Safety

airbnb, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Equity options

Employee Travel Credits

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Manager for Trust and Safety to lead product strategies that create a safe community worldwide. You will work with cross-functional teams to address customer pain points and drive safe experiences.

Candidates should have over 5 years of product management experience, strong communication skills, and an entrepreneurial drive. The role offers competitive compensation, including the potential for bonuses and equity, and a commitment to inclusion and belonging.

Qualifications

• 5+ years product management experience.
• Experience leading teams through ambiguity and high stakes trade off decisions.
• Entrepreneurial drive to achieve stretch goals in an innovative fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Create vision and strategy for Trust & Safety products and platforms.
• Lead a cross-functional team to ensure alignment and execution.
• Maintain product backlog and prioritize solutions.

Skills

Product management experience

Prior product, operation, or engineering experience in trust, safety, risk or fraud

Outstanding written and verbal communication ability

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Experience building machine learning products

Exceptional collaboration and influencing skills

Job description

Senior Platform Manager, Trust and Safety

United States

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:

Our hosts are opening their homes or providing experiences to guests from around the world. We’re creating new relationships & placing people in vulnerable situations. Therefore trust is the fundamental currency of Airbnb. We are the Trust & Safety team, composed of engineers, data scientists, designers, product managers, and operations, responsible for earning this trust by building for safety at each moment of the guest and host journey. We build cutting edge machine learning models to detect risk, defenses to deter risky actors, and operations tools that enable investigators worldwide. We define community standards and policies, set high expectations, and keep bad actors out while providing delightful experiences for good users.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Product Manager in the Trust & Safety team, you will identify customer pain points, business opportunities, and define/deliver the products that help us create a safe and trusted community around the world. Your work will be pivotal to shaping the future of hospitality and travel. Within the Trust & Safety team, you’ll be focused on Safety: To reduce safety incidents (e.g. interpersonal harm and illegal activities).

A Typical Day:

• Creating vision and strategy for Trust & Safety products and platforms.
• Leading a cross-functional working group of engineers, data scientists, designers, operations experts, and policy experts to ensure alignment, execution, and launches
• Maintaining product backlog and the product roadmap. Own prioritization process of product solutions based on business value and customer impact
• Defining goals and success with clearly measurable objectives and key results.
• Building alignment across product teams (inside and outside of Trust & Safety), and Leadership/Executive teams.
• Anticipating bottlenecks, making tradeoffs and balancing the business needs, customer needs, versus technical or operational constraints.
• Presenting product roadmap and status to the business and Airbnb leadership on an ongoing basis. Communicate concisely and influence outcomes.
• Evaluating new product opportunities and bring forward proposals (buy, build, partner solutions) for new capabilities with data and users at the forefront
• Developing short term plans aligned with long term goals to iteratively build platform capabilities to defend against safety issues
• Becoming the thought leader and entrepreneur that others within Airbnb look up to for knowledge, processes, and methods on building products and platforms

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years product management experience
• Prior product, operation, or engineering experience in trust, safety, risk or fraud
• Outstanding written and verbal communication ability to a diverse stakeholder audience, including a global team of C-level executives, product, and technical stakeholders
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Experience building machine learning products or technical product management
• Experienced in design, and hypothesis driven product development
• Entrepreneurial drive to achieve stretch goals in an innovative fast-paced environment
• Exceptional collaboration, partnership and influencing skills with the ability to work in a global environment across multiple locations and time zones to drive consensus across teams
• Experience leading teams through ambiguity, and high stakes trade off decisions

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: [e-mail] . Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.