Product Manager (Trust and Safety)

This is a contract role through Magnit for our client Airbnb. This role is on W-2 and is fully remote in the United States ONLY and is not a corp to corp opportunity.

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in more than 100, 000 cities and towns located in 220+ countries and regions across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and one-of-a-kind activities that make it possible for guests to experience the world in a more authentic, connected way.

Airbnb was born with a creative spirit, and it’s one of the most defining parts of our culture. We use our curiosity and imagination to come up with unconventional solutions. These are the ideas at the core of Airbnb:

• Our community is based on connection and belonging.
• Our creativity allows us to imagine new possibilities for people.
• Our responsibility is to all of our stakeholders.
• It takes a unified team committed to our core values to embody these ideas, and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company

Location: Remote in the United States Only

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

Belonging & Accommodations:

Airbnb is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas fosters innovation and engagement, and allows us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please connect with your talent sourcing partner.

Pay Rate Range: $78-$91/hr

Benefits:

Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K