Senior Manager, Industry Research

Summary

Join Airbnb's public policy team as a Senior Manager, Industry Research! You will conduct research on the travel, lodging, and housing industries, producing strategic reports with actionable policy recommendations. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders, developing research strategies, and communicating findings to senior leaders. The ideal candidate possesses 10+ years of research experience in political, industry, or advocacy fields, proficiency with research tools, and excellent communication skills. This US-based remote-eligible position offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits. Airbnb is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• 10+ years of research experience working within the political, industry, or advocacy fields
• Proficiency with research tools such as LexisNexis, and public records databases
• Experience managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders
• Highly organized and able to stay on top of multiple projects simultaneously, while staying focused on overall strategic goals
• Ability to quickly get up to speed on complex issues, and understand how these can be managed using a broad range of strategies
• Expert communicator with great interpersonal and presentation skills
• Experience working on a global team, collaborating with people from different backgrounds and cultures
• First-rate personal, political, analytical and organizational skills
• Excellent communicator with great interpersonal and presentation skills, both for subject matter experts and the layperson
• Ability to work independently as well as collaborate successfully as part of a team
• Excellent organizational skills, able to multi-task while producing high caliber work product in a timely manner
• Self starter with a sense of humor and the ability to thrive in a fast moving and sometimes stressful environment

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on the travel, lodging and housing industries
• Produce strategic reports that include actionable public policy and advocacy recommendations
• Work within the Reputation and Research team to outline strategic priorities, develop a reasonable timeline for completion, budget, and develop operational plans to deliver the reports along with an assessment of practical deployment of the information
• Develop strategies in close collaboration with colleagues on the wider team who have expertise in data science as well as those who have a specific regional or industry perspective on best practices and learnings
• Work with other functions to align research projects with other critical business priorities and outcomes
• Ensure that internal stakeholders understand the strategy and plans, and that information is flowing smoothly to everyone with a “need to know”
• Ensure that progress is being reported regularly, and that roadblocks and successes are being flagged appropriately
• Confidently communicate with senior leaders about your project priorities, manage expectations where required and coordinate with other teams to achieve greater goals
• Create an environment that fosters and promotes diversity and inclusion within the immediate team

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to create an environment that fosters and promotes diversity and inclusion within the immediate team

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits