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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: Airbnb's mission is to create a world where people can Belong Anywhere. As we grow to achieve that mission, we're looking to add a technical, hands-on, and mission-driven Senior Manager of Technical Program Management (TPM) for the Infrastructure team to lead AI Platforms initiatives spanning Search Relevance, Machine Learning Infrastructure (MLI), and Search Knowledge Infrastructure (SKI). This person will partner with our engineering & product teams to build/enhance data-driven decision making across multiple areas in Airbnb. They will partner closely with senior ICs and engineering directors across Airbnb on processes, strategy and execution. In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Machine Learning (ML) engineers, infrastructure engineers and product managers from across Airbnb to develop holistic solutions that ensure a vibrant and equitable marketplace. The Search Relevance, Machine Learning Infrastructure (MLI), and Search Knowledge Infrastructure (SKI) teams power the ranking, recommendations, model infrastructure, and search intelligence capabilities that make up a core part of Airbnb's AI Platforms, including: Search Ranking for Stays, Experiences, and Services, Home Page Recommendations, Search Bar AutoSuggest and Autocomplete, Marketing Technology, and the ML infrastructure and platform capabilities that support them. The team also creates the fabric for personalization and the underlying model infrastructure, used both on and off platform for Airbnb. We collaborate with many teams including Search Infrastructure, Guest and Host Experiences, MD

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: 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 v

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: At Airbnb, great support starts with great learning. The Community Support Training team builds the knowledge, skills, and experiences that empower our support workforce to show up for hosts and guests every day. As our Learning Tools Manager, you will own the learning technology stack that makes that learning possible (and the team that oversees it) — from our Learning Management System (LMS) to the simulation, authoring, and design tools that bring training to life. The Difference You Will Make: This is a high-impact, high-visibility role at a pivotal moment: we are embarking on an LMS transition over the next year, and you will lead that effort end-to-end. You will work at the intersection of learning strategy, product management, and enterprise technology — partnering closely with data &amp; analytics, engineering, and sourcing &amp; contracts teams to ensure Training’s tools are scalable, measurable, and beloved by learners. <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, s

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: At Airbnb, anything related to money and value transfer comes through the Payments team. We're building a world-class payments and commerce organization that currently supports 220+ countries, 70+ currencies, connects dozens of payment providers and banks, processes billions of dollars, and empowers more people to participate in our global marketplace. We're looking for people who know and use Airbnb and believe in what we're trying to accomplish. Airbnb is a marketplace that connects guests and hosts, and Payments is central to creating the trust that makes every transaction possible. The Platform team plays the role of conductor, bringing together engineers, designers, and partnerships to build great product experiences. The Difference You Will Make: Our Payments Platform Managers own outcomes across foundation, growth, and empowerment, setting the vision and strategy, defining the Platform roadmap, and driving execution. We are building foundational loyalty and incentives platform capabilities that require expertise in consumer loyalty programs and B2B2C incentives platforms. The Staff Platform Manager, Loyalty Platform lead will own the platform strategy and vision for enabling internal and partner teams to offer new loyalty and membership offers for guests and hosts across the world. A Typical Day: Own the Loyalty & Incentives platform domain strategy, roadmap, and operating model, enabling teams across Airbnb to launch, configure, and evolve loyalty, membership, and incentive programs through reusable, scalable platform capabilities — including support for di

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: At Airbnb, we're driven by our mission to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Community Support (CS) Platform & Engineering team is at the forefront of this mission - building the AI systems that power world-class support experiences for millions of guests and hosts globally. We are building to a bold vision, where our AI doesn't just answer questions, but truly understands each person's unique context, mirrors the judgment and empathy of our highest-performing human agents, and delivers 10-Star support at scale. The AI Personalization team is the intelligence layer that makes this possible. We own the full-stack systems that enable the AI to give every guest and host a response that feels written just for them. The Difference You Will Make: We are looking for a visionary Staff Platform Manager to lead the product strategy and execution for AI Personalization across Airbnb's customer support ecosystem. This is one of the most consequential roles in CS Platform Product: you will own the full stack of personalization, from the underlying retrieval systems to the consumer-facing AI experience, and scale it across multiple Airbnb surfaces. The north star: enable AIA to emulate the judgment, empathy, and accuracy of Airbnb's highest-performing human agents. To achieve this, you'll build a platform that continuously enriches the AI's understanding of each user, and surfaces that understanding at the right moment, in the right form, across every channel. This role demands a rare combination: customer experience chops to build meaningful and delightful perso

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: Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where people can Belong Anywhere. As we work to achieve that mission, we’re building world-class learning experiences for our technical teams. We’re looking for an exceptional and creative individual inspired to deliver innovative learning experiences that have tremendous organizational impact. The Difference You Will Make: The Staff Program Manager, Technical Education will play a key role in executing various technical learning programs including our Engineering Education programs that currently focus on AI Education, and other engineering and data education programming. Our focus is on impact and experimentation, creating world-class programs that enable technical excellence. We’re employing best practices from learning science and using measurement to iterate on learning experiences. The ideal candidate is confident in their ability to develop scalable learning experiences that drive overall growth and development for our technical audience. We are looking for someone who has the ability to synthesize a range of concepts into unified experiences, stay up to date in a rapidly shifting technical ecosystem, establish systems and processes, and deliver top notch program management. A Typical Day: Collaborate on and develop program strategy for various technical programs, including AI Enablement, AI Education, Machine Learning Education, Data Education, Engineering Education with internal SMEs and other Technical Learning & Development team members Design, create content, and project manage in-person and virtual technical learning

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 Global Markets Tech team drives the evolution of our guest and host experience across international markets through product innovation that accelerates international growth . Expanding in under-penetrated markets is a core pillar of our company strategy. To achieve this, we innovate at every level - adapting our product to the unique needs of every corner of the globe so that every user across our 220+ countries and regions feels right at home. The team partners closely with Product, Design, Data Science, regional stakeholders, and core platform/vertical teams to translate local market needs into durable, scalable technology that can be piloted quickly and then rolled out broadly. The Difference You Will Make: We are looking for a product-minded Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to lead the technical strategy and drive innovative initiatives for Airbnb’s international guest experiences. At Staff level, you will set a technical vision and drive execution of solutions that are highly available, secure, efficient, and designed to scale across many markets with the needs of the international business. You will work across product, engine

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. About Airbnb: ​Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique travel experiences around the world. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week or a villa for a month, Airbnb allows people to Belong Anywhere through unique travel experiences at any price point, in more than 85,000 cities and over 191 countries. We promote a culture of curiosity, humanity, and creativity through our product, brand, and, most importantly, our people. What you’ll do Understanding of workforce metrics (SLA, shrinkage, occupancy, adherence, AHT, etc.) with an ability to incorporate insights into planning Deep execution on Queue management, while effectively communicating strategies, processes across Broader Airbnb team and our Outsourced Partners Strong skills in information gathering, data collection with analysis, and reporting SLA performance to broader domains Performance reporting with strong footprint of WFM metrics, RCA with supported narratives using trends and current performance Support site-level resources with real-time management of schedule adherence and analyze performance data to identify opportunities to operate more effectively and efficiently Communicate clearly and empathetically around strategies and business needs; build trust and transparency Self-starter/Teamwork abilities: Workforce analyst must be able to work independently as well as function effectively as a member of a team Ability to handle dynamic situations: They require the ability to work effectively in a fast-p

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 Airbnb Core Recruiting supports all of Airbnb's businesses, platform, and function teams by attracting and connecting the most talented, diverse, and values-aligned people around the world. We apply talent acquisition strategy and programs, business partnerships, and operational excellence to align our work with Airbnb's evolving talent needs. As culture carriers and ambassadors, we foster belonging and host every candidate with authentic hospitality. The Early Career &amp; Emerging Talent (ECET) team sits at the center of this work, focused specifically on interns and apprentices across every global region. We support all Airbnb teams interested in engaging junior talent as a way to fuel impactful projects and build a pipeline for future roles — touching every aspect of the experience, from university and community partnerships to hiring manager advising, onboarding, and program design. The

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: BizTech fosters culture and connection at Airbnb by providing reliable corporate tools, innovative products, and technical support for all teams. We drive technical breakthroughs and strategies that redefine what it means to belong anywhere, delivering greater value for the business and our people. The Global Operations team at BizTech manages production services across Airbnb’s corporate environment, delivering reliable operations through Observability, Incident Management, Core Operations, and AI-enabled automation. We partner across BizTech to scale service quality, efficiency, and resilience. The Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Staff Engineer in Operations, you will lead and mentor a high-performing team to scale our AI-enabled operations model and deliver AIOps solutions that streamline operational workstreams and help BizTech teams focus on their core work with confidence. Ops owns triage and resolution, proactive monitoring across networks, systems, applications, and cloud services via a homegrown observability platform, and drives process excellence through automation and shift-left programs. You will set the technical bar, model operational excellence, and ensure high-quality, reliable service. Your scope includes leading projects ac

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: AI and ML are at the heart of the Airbnb product. From Trust to Payments, and from Customer Service to Marketing, we rely on ML to ensure that guests and hosts have the best possible experience with Airbnb. The Core ML team is responsible for driving CSxAI (Customer Support x Artificial Intelligence) initiatives by adopting Generative AI technologies to enable an intelligent, scalable, and exceptional service experience. The team develops and enhances AI models, ML services, and tools including LLM fine-tuning and optimization, RAG/Search, LLM evaluation and testing automation, feedback-based learning, and guardrails for a wide range of applications at Airbnb. The richness of Airbnb's data, the complexity of its marketplace, and the variety innate in our product mean that we need to operate at the state of the art of AI practice. We are committed to long-term innovation to solve complex problems, and to do that we need experienced ML ​​The Difference You Will Make: In this Senior Staff role, you will set technical direction and lead execution for ML evaluation and the end-to-end data flywheel powering CSxAI products (e.g., assistive agents, issue resolution, and tooling). Your work will define how we measure quality, how we turn feedback into learning signals, and how we continuously improve models and products safely and efficiently. You will partner closely with product, engineering, design, operations to build evaluation systems that are trusted, scalable, and actionable - connecting offline metrics to online outcomes. A Typical Day: Define evaluation strategy and suc

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord's Internal Audit team exists to demonstrate effective risk management, process optimization, and adherence to relevant regulations — through a mix of independent assurance and advisory work that helps teams strengthen our overall control environment. This Technology Risk Audit Manager role owns the technical side of that mission — IT SOX/ITGC, system controls, and domains centered around consumer trust — that protect hundreds of millions of our users worldwide. You'll have the opportunity to help build our internal audit function from the ground up: shaping the frameworks and processes with an AI-native approach from day one, rather than bolting AI on after the fact. Your first few months will focus on learning Discord's financial-reporting systems landscape, understanding the company's GRC program structure, and evaluating AI-powered testing solutions — setting the foundation for a function that's built to scale as Discord grows toward enterprise readiness. This person will report to the Vice President of Internal Audit. What You'll Be Doing Lead IT SOX/ITGC strategy and continuous improvement across financial-reporting-relevant systems Extend risk and controls assessment and assurance into consumer trust domains such as privacy, security, and trust & safety Partner with the Engineering organization to ensure proper access controls, segregation of duties, change management, and CI/CD integrity are in place Guide control design through system implementations, migrations, and platform changes Manage teams and projects related to IT controls and technical audits, including external contractors

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: Airbnb's Payments organization is central to the trust that makes every transaction possible and the Payments Risk and Compliance domain sits at the heart of protecting that trust for guests, hosts, and the platform. The Platform Team plays the role of conductor, enhancing our engineers, designers, and data scientists to build great product experiences. Our Payments Risk Platform Managers (PM) own and lead outcomes related to foundation, growth, and empowerment. This means our PMs set the vision and strategy, the roadmap, and execute on the plans that are developed. The Difference You Will Make: This role sits within Airbnb's Payments Risk and Compliance domain, owning the post-transaction product strategy across the full dispute lifecycle from chargeback processing and representments through pre-arbitration, proactive dispute prevention, and on-platform resolution experiences. You will drive Airbnb's evolution from a chargeback representment into a holistic dispute resolution capability, building the systems, decisioning logic, and guest-facing interventions that reduce net losses while protecting community and marketplace trust. Success in this role means materially reducing Airbnb's losses while balancing impact to community and attrition, expanding pre-arbitration cove

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 Enterprise Operations Workforce & Vendor Excellence team at Airbnb increases the effectiveness, utilization, quality and impact of the Homes, Hotels, Services and Experiences on Airbnb using AI and people-powered operations. Our Workforce Planning and Insights team works with both our Scaled Operations and our Revenue Operations teams to optimize our vendor footprint, plan our capacity needs, staff projects and improve the performance of our vendor teams. The work of our agents is highly variable, from Sales work, to Account Management to AI labeling, often across 5-6 languages. We typically have 30-40 projects running concurrently, with demand changing weekly, so forecasting and staffing is a complex challenge. Our team moves very quickly, staffing up and down projects in the space of days, and increasingly uses AI as a core component of our workflows, which further speeds up cycle times. The Difference You Will Make: As the Workforce Management Lead, Enterprise Ops, you will serve as the operational intelligence and capacity strategy hub for our Scaled and Revenue Operations teams. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role that sits at the intersection of workforce strategy, financial efficiency, and executive stakeholder management. You will transform complex, real-time workforce data into clear, compelling narratives that drive decisions at the most senior levels of the organization, proactively surfacing what is working, what is at risk, and where intervention is needed before problems escalate. You will own our capacity planning, staffing and

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. Discord's mission is to give people the power to create space to find belonging in their lives, and every day millions of people trust Discord to be a place where they can talk, hang out, and build community. Keeping that space safe starts with teams like ours. Discord's Violent Actors Team, part of the broader Threat Operations org within Trust & Safety, focuses on identifying and disrupting violent and extremist networks and threat actors. As a Threat Investigator, you'll lead investigations into these communities, identify novel detection mechanisms, and develop enforcement strategies to stay ahead of ongoing and emerging threats. A typical day might include conducting deep-dive network investigations, compiling high-value signals to fuel proactive detection, or collaborating with internal and external partners on incident response. This role requires the ability to flex across a range of harm portfolios as team priorities evolve. This person will report to the team's Senior Manager. What You'll Be Doing Leading complex investigations into violent extremist and threat actor networks, developing and iterating on detection and disruption strategies across your investigative portfolio Executing on roadmap projects, including cross-functional coordination with policy, engineering, and ML/AI teams, documentation of behavioral trends, and identification of scalable mitigation strategies Leveraging investigative signals and subject matter expertise to inform threat prioritization decisions Identifying emergence of novel harm behaviors, and gaps in Discord's detection, policy, and enforcement capabilitie