Policy Manager, Consults and Escalations

About the role

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 The Community and Product Policy team creates and evolves principled policies that establish the rules of the road for guests and hosts across Airbnb. We solve complex marketplace and Trust & Safety challenges using data, stakeholder collaboration, and excellent judgement to support our community at scale. We team up with our cross-functional partners to create clear and accessible policy enforcement guides and to continuously measure, maintain, and improve our policies. We handle policy escalations and consults from across the business to ensure tough calls are resolved in accordance with our principles. The Difference You Will Make You are a seasoned policy expert, with experience handling complex escalations You love solving problems and have a track record of strong cross-functional collaboration You’re an experienced communicator, with exceptional writing skills and presentation skills, including to senior executive audiences You are principled and rigorous — you incorporate diverse perspectives in pursuit of the best decisions and outcomes possible You are fluent with AI tools for gaining operational efficiency, but you exercise excellent judgement and know human expertise and supervision is paramount You can build and interrogate prompting, automated workflows, data queries, and stress-test model output before it reaches a decision-maker — you know when a number is not trustworthy and how to course correct You are a team player who thrives in a fast-moving environment and brings a strategic mindset to your work As a Consults and Escalations Manager in Community Policy, you will work across the business to understand every aspect of a case. You’ll provide timely policy analysis and corresponding enforcement recommendations, and continuously evaluate and improve our policies to handle new issues as they arise. You will resolve individual user matters and translate what you learn into policy insights and recommended changes — using your case handling expertise alongside AI and data tooling you will detect patterns across escalation volume. You'll automate things like detection and reporting, but you'll make the judgment call, document the reasoning, and own the outcome. You will help our leaders understand recurring issues and how we can fix them in the future. This role will serve as an important player in developing our global policy improvements and will have a direct impact on the peace of mind of millions of Airbnb community members around the world. A Typical Day Drive complicated escalations and issues towards a solution Advise our operations teams on c...

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