Senior Platform Manager, Trust and Safety
About the role
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 dive