Business Process Improvement Manager

The posting, as Airbnb wrote it

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 Business Process Improvement team focuses on improving processes across all Community Support. Our team is a global team of process improvement professionals, who help bring cross functional partners from across CS and Airbnb together to operationalize new processes, analyze current process for improvement opportunities, and scale solutions across a global network. We follow general business process engineering principles and practices, as well as leveraging Lean Six Sigma methodologies in our improvement projects.

The Difference You Will Make

The Business Process Manager will be a senior individual contributor within the Service Optimization team, part of the Community Service Organization. This role advances the team's process engineering discipline by designing systems where problems do not occur, rather than only improving processes that already exist. The Business Process Manager delivers through deep individual expertise: applying systems thinking, engineering processes for AI-readiness and automation by default, and building AI prototypes to test and validate new process designs before full implementation. This is a role for a senior level practitioner who operates at the intersection of process engineering, systems design, and applied AI.

A Typical Day

• Develop business strategies within Service Optimization and Community Support across people, process, and technology.
• Lead the operationalization of strategies across Community Support and other cross functional teams such as Policy, Finance, and Product.
• Lead complex, large-scale, cross-functional process engineering initiatives from problem definition through measurable outcomes, applying the full suite of Lean Six Sigma tools and a structured process engineering framework across four disciplines: understanding the problem and its system context, designing reliable and measurable solutions, grounding those solutions in operational reality, and evolving them as conditions change.
• Apply and coach others to apply a systems thinking lens to every problem: map full upstream and downstream context before prescribing solutions, identifying where the real problem lives rather than where it surfaces.
• Design processes for AI-readiness and automation by default, engineering every future state around three standards: does it reduce agent and customer burden, is it measurable from day one, and can it be automated or self-correcting over time.
• Build AI prototypes to communicate and validate process designs, using AI tools, workflow automation platforms, and lightweight modeling approac

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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.

Pay Range
$156,000 — $195,000 USD

Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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