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 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 Difference You Will Make:
You will be responsible for working with your team to ensure that daily service level agreements are met in responding to user tickets and reviewing users or reservations for risks to our users or the Airbnb platform.
You will be working closely with the product stakeholders and shared services stakeholders to provide feedback to help improve our models as well as focusing on analyzing online patterns and trends.Your scope within the role is outlined below and your level is defined by the Airbnb Levels Framework
A Typical Day:
Responsibilities to maintain Subject Matter Expertise to successfully complete core work and escalations.
- Educate users on how to maintain security and safety while using Airbnb responsibly
- Investigate complex situations and potential brand risks surfaced in high volume queues
- Work with operational lead to support cross-functional groups to develop and enhance internal policies and tools such as increasing automation, updating policies, and fixing product loopholes
- Understand our risk systems and investigate account patterns
- Identify and escalate trends and product vulnerabilities to stakeholders
- Maintain high levels of confidentiality while performing investigations
- Comprehensively document investigations
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the purpose of User Knowledge Operations
- Work with external Product vendors to enhance proactive and reactive risk detection as an informing or collaborating task.
- Demonstrate great judgment and be open to sharing what you know with others.
Your Expertise:
- 1-2 years of experience within risk management, fraud prevention, or Trust and Safety
- Must be available for a regular schedule of 5 days work per week (40 hours), mutually agreed with your Lead, which may include weekend days and public holidays.
- Shifts may include evening or early morning hours.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, to help our community in a tactful and diplomatic manner.
- Ability to balance fraud prevention alongside a positive customer experience.
- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills, with an ability to organize and work independently with rapidly changing priorities Self-motivated and detail oriented, with a focus on solutions and outcomes
- Strong investigative ability, due diligence, internet research, organizational, and analytical skills.
- Ability to detect vulnerabilities in existing and new products or features, and anticipate the ever-evolving fraudulent behaviors.
- Desire to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
- Ability to multitask, learn and adapt to new technologies.
- Ability to remain calm in time sensitive situations, prioritize and respond to user and cross-functional team needs.
- Ability to remove personal bias to focus on fact-based investigations and remain impartial in sensitive situations involving users
- Ability to analyze data for patterns and draw conclusions and suggestions SQL, JSON, or equivalent experience with other coding languages is a plus Fluency in another language is a plus
- You may have 2 to 4 years experience in a similar role elsewhere or you may have learned on the job at Airbnb.
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.
