Magnit Global is a leading, global professional services and technology company and a certified “Great Place to Work”. We have been a leader in contingent workforce management since 1991 and work with leading Fortune 500 companies and other large organizations across numerous verticals including consumer electronics, research and development, pharmaceuticals, health services, and many more! 

We're glad to continue a relationship with you and happy to assist in the next steps of your career once more! 

This contract opportunity is with Airbnb. 

About the Role

As a Programs and Business Operations Lead, you will play a pivotal role in driving the global expansion of Airbnb's Home business. You will be responsible for developing and executing innovative strategies that align cross-functional teams, enabling rapid growth and ensuring the highest quality stays for our guests and hosts worldwide. Your attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities will be crucial to your success in this role.

What You Will Do

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement strategic plans that drive growth for Airbnb's Stays business across various use cases and markets. Navigate and address regional challenges and opportunities, and work to prioritize across many different lenses.
• Cross-functional Alignment: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, finance, marketing, sales operations, and supply, to achieve shared objectives that deliver meaningful business results.
• Operational Excellence: Leverage your analytical skills to translate data-driven insights into actionable operational plans that enhance the performance of our Stays business, and build efficiency into our systems. Manage foundational workstreams such as Weekly Business Reviews and OKRs. Facilitate intricate team operations and protect progress to plan.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Provide valuable guidance and support to help Stays Hosts thrive within the Airbnb marketplace. Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Provide the right, clear visibility for leadership, knowing when and what to share.
• Innovation & Growth: Own and influence the business outcomes of this high-growth area, strategically planning for the next phases of expansion.
• Creativity: Be able to think outside the box to come up with novel ways of structuring growth programs, business models, and ways of working to allow the business to be nimble and enable efficient scale.

What You Will Need

• 8+ years of experience leading high-growth businesses, with a demonstrated ability to influence and align functional teams.
• Proven track record of setting up and running new programs and processes to effectively build and scale new businesses. Experience in digital marketplaces, travel, scaling startups, and/or management consulting is a plus.
• Analytical & Strategic Skills: Strong analytical abilities combined with a deep understanding of market dynamics. Ability to distill complex quantitative and qualitative information into clear business strategies.
• Communication & Leadership: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Expertise in driving collaboration across diverse teams, fostering transparency, accountability, and a unified vision.
• Adaptability & Innovation: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and working independently to execute complex programs. A strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and new product development.
• Business Operations: Proven experience in leading strategic and tactical execution within a large organization, with the ability to advise management on complex projects or issues.
• Process Improvement: Capable of self-learning and developing tools to enhance processes, interpreting business risks, and recommending best practices.
• Community Engagement: Strong enthusiasm for working closely with the Airbnb community, consistently demonstrating Airbnb’s core values and fostering a sense of belonging.

This is the pay range that Magnit reasonably expects to pay for this position: $58.93/hour - $78.57/hour

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K