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:
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic candidate to provide exceptional Customer Service management to the Airbnb community as a Regional Operations Manager. The ideal candidate is hospitable, analytical, and committed to delivering the highest standards of service through coaching and upleveling their team. This is a full time position based in Ireland.
The Difference You will Make:
The Regional Operations Manager supports one or more internal CS services. The Regional Operations Manager is an operational leadership role that requires substantial experience in customer service and team management. Regional Operations Managers oversee teams of approximately 4-8 people managers who each manage teams of 8-15 support agents. ROMs should have the ability to guide and uplevel their team members, demonstrating top-level coaching skills and operations management knowledge. Strong organizational skills and the ability to balance real-time and planned work are also required. They should also be adaptable and responsive in our fast paced environment, sometimes under pressure, while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, efficient and demonstrating a high level of professionalism and confidentiality.
A Typical Day:
Oversee a strong operational environment for your teams and ensure high quality support for the community from your team
- Manage the team execution of complex, sensitive, and/or urgent issues that might pose a significant risk to our brand or community, including acting as the highest escalation point for case consults and high level escalations from other stakeholders
- Meet with your direct reports regularly to review their work and provide high quality, behavior-based coaching; must be able to create a performance development strategy/plan for your service(s).
- Provide best practices guidelines to your team on how to handle cases and situations, and ensure that ways of working are documented and followed.
- Ensure that the team is consistently staffed appropriately and that staff complete onboarding and ongoing trainings.
- For cases that involve internal stakeholders, guide your team to take proper action to case closure and in rare cases, support with in-the-weeds case handling.
- Collaborate with Capacity Planning & WFP on setting minimum headcount, ensuring adequate coverage, contingency planning impacts of changes, and advocating for staffing needs vs. volume/work
Drive performance at the team manager, regional, and service level
- Ensure individual team members are held accountable to performance goals in a fair and equitable manner by setting clear expectations, following-up individually, and coaching team members positively to develop and improve their skills in a tailored way
- Manage both team manager and regional performance, including identifying trends in performance, providing corrective actions and positive overall feedback, and writing year end reviews and improvement plans
- Ability to set and articulate the vision and focus for the quarter; deliver that vision and focus through all hands-type meetings
- Share input and recommendations about service target setting.
- Provide oversight on the overall service performance and contribute to reporting on trends and providing a holistic picture of the service to the Delivery Director
Build and nurture an engaged and diverse team
- Own and manage end-to-end people strategy and operations within your team to foster a high performing and sustainable team environment. This includes hiring, driving onboarding, talent development, and people engagement/wellness/morale
- Enable team and individual professional success through supporting and challenging your team to meet and exceed expectations with clear goals/expectations, feedback, one-on-ones, and coaching
- Support team in professional development within team by finding and creating development opportunities and leveraging company-wide resources to regularly drive development within your team.
- Keep up with day-to-day management duties such as time off approvals, team and one-on-one meetings, and managing Talent-related issues
- Maintain a culture of openness, transparency and accountability allowing our teams to deliver their best work while being themselves
- Demonstrate strong leadership on important issues including Diversity & Belonging, Allyship, Ethics, Compliance and maintaining high standards of service to the company
Support strategic initiatives within Delivery and your service as needed
- Lead the team toward the successful execution of company or other strategic changes or goals within your service by cascading updates and changes, communicating new requirements, and providing feedback
- Support, as needed, internal Delivery performance & operations improvement projects, in collaboration with the Delivery Excellence team and cross-functional partners
- Think critically and constantly evaluate our procedures. Collect feedback from the team to identify opportunities to improve performance and better optimize processes for the team, service, and global community
Your Expertise:
Your background & experience- 8+ years of progressive experience in a customer service or an operations role, with 5 years in a role directly managing staff & the employee lifecycle, ideally managing other managers
- Demonstrable experience in driving improved performance of teams as a manager
- Experience in the deployment of resources to manage real-time crisis situations, including managing high severity/sensitivity cases and decision-making authority for losses
- Experience in data analysis and reporting to identify performance trends, as well as developing and implementing performance management standards
- Experience translating big picture goals and strategy into implementable and concrete actions for your teams, including setting operational or functional targets or performance goals
- Ability to work weekend days, holidays, and on-call required
- Exceptional leadership and team management skills to manage a team of professionals - comfort with conflict, giving and receiving feedback, and handling employee/Talent issues
- Strong communication skills to collaborate with different stakeholders and manage sensitive cases, while remaining calm and poised under pressure
- Organized and resourceful; able to juggle and multi-task, with an attention to detail and follow through even in ambiguous situations
- In-depth understanding of customer service operations and processes; able to translate that to your team
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities to evaluate procedures and identify opportunities for improvement
- Ability to cascade with context and lead your team through changes
- Exceptional coaching skills, you have high EQ and know how to tailor your feedback & communication style to meet the needs of your coachee or mentee
- Cultural competency and a strong commitment to fostering diversity and inclusion within the team
- Proficiency in various data analysis and reporting tools to track performance trends (tableau, SQL, Excel, Google Sheets, etc.)
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.
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 shown below is annualized, 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.
Skills Required
- 8+ years progressive experience in customer service or operations, with 5 years managing staff and the employee lifecycle
- Experience managing managers (overseeing 4-8 people managers and their teams)
- Demonstrable experience driving improved performance of teams and implementing performance management standards
- Experience deploying resources and managing high-severity, sensitive, or urgent cases and making loss-related decisions
- Experience in data analysis and reporting to identify trends and inform operational decisions
- Ability to translate strategy into implementable operational targets and actions
- Ability to work weekends, holidays, and be on-call
- Exceptional leadership, coaching skills, and experience handling employee/talent issues and performance reviews
- Strong communication skills and ability to remain calm and poised under pressure
- Proficiency with data analysis and reporting tools (Tableau, SQL, Excel, Google Sheets)
- Cultural competency and commitment to diversity, inclusion, and allyship
Airbnb Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Airbnb and has not been reviewed or approved by Airbnb.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay ranges and total compensation components are increasingly disclosed, and country-level pay practices avoid location-based cuts, which feedback suggests improves consistency and perceived fairness.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive core health coverage for employees, mental health resources, and substantial dependent support are repeatedly highlighted as robust and a standout element of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, a winter shutdown, sabbaticals, and paid volunteer time are described as extensive, with parental leave and phased return options reinforcing time-off flexibility.
Airbnb Insights
What We Do
Airbnb is a community based on connection and belonging—a community that was born in 2008 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to 4 million hosts who have welcomed over 800 million guest arrivals to about 100,000 cities in almost every country and region across the globe. Hosts on Airbnb are everyday people who share their worlds to provide guests with the feeling of connection and being at home. At Airbnb, we believe that hosts, guests and the communities where we operate are all stakeholders we have a responsibility to serve, and that by serving them alongside our employees and investors, we will build an enduringly successful company.
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