[Hiring] Community Relationship Manager @Standing on Giants

Role Description

As a Community Relationship Manager for Airbnb, you will be focused on recruiting, onboarding, and supporting engaged Airbnb hosts in the UK and Northern Europe as part of the Community Leaders programme. The Community Leaders are hosts who have volunteered to bring hosts in their area together in a local Host Club to collaborate, share, and collectively grow with Airbnb.

You will be working with the Senior Community Relationship Manager to support a group of ~100 Leaders, dedicated to answering their questions and addressing their concerns. You will support the Host Community by managing Host Clubs of local Airbnb hosts, providing them with content and ideas to increase engagement, optimising and educating hosts. You will be responsible for gathering host insights and helping cascade these to other teams in order to make the right improvements to the Airbnb product and platform.

Responsibilities:

• Recruitment / Onboarding
  • Selecting Community Leaders who meet Airbnb’s criteria and setting them up for success.
  • Assess applications; putting forward potential candidates for screening calls.
  • Provide guidance and training on their role, if required.
  • Hold onboarding sessions for new Community Leaders and complete the set-up process.
• Relationship Management / Ongoing support
  • Support weekly calls with Community Leaders and independently run these sessions as required.
  • Act as a point of contact for UK and Northern European community leaders, holding 1-1 calls.
  • Develop resources and programming based on feedback given by Community Leaders.
  • Send creative and localised content ideas and materials to your Leaders weekly, and as required.
  • Answer Leader emails and concerns.
  • Support in the planning and logistics of online and offline events.
• Performance tracking / reporting
  • Assessing the performance of the Host Clubs run by your Leaders and reporting back to Airbnb.
  • Review Host Club engagement, sharing relevant content with cross-functional teams.
  • Provide specific feedback and insights to your Leaders on their performance and how they can improve.
  • Use Salesforce to report on the performance of the Host Clubs.
  • Share updates with Airbnb on a regular basis.
  • Support with projects and pilots, sharing impact with Airbnb.
  • Support the education of hosts on all significant product changes and cascade feedback to the relevant internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English with excellent communication skills and confidence in engaging with people through phone / video calls.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Great listening and influencing skills; high emotional intelligence.
• Ability to take the initiative and work independently.
• Self-motivated, flexible and able to manage several projects at one time and to prioritise.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to research information to provide answers.
• Problem-solving attitude and proactive mindset.
• Ability to work with others and manage conflicts effectively.
• Flexibility to travel when and where required, for host events or company offsites.
• Attentive to detail and organised.
• Experienced in planning and hosting online and offline events, with expertise in budget management.
• Working knowledge of Salesforce, Google Workspace, online forums and Apple OS is an advantage.
• Experience in managing online communities (forums) or similar client-facing operational experience.
• Have a keen interest in hospitality and tourism within Northern Europe (UK, and Nordics).

Nice to have

• Fluency in a Nordic language is a plus.
• Experience in relationship management or account management.
• Experience working in Customer Service.

What to Expect During the Recruitment Process

We are an Equal Opportunities employer, we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment.

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process.

The hiring stages include an initial 30-minute initial interview, a written assessment, a 1-hour main interview, and up to two shorter follow-up interviews.

Please note that we will carry out criminal and financial background checks on successful candidates.

Location

UK based, with regular travel into London, UK.