Community Crisis Investigator

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:

Community Crisis Investigators are the first line of Airbnb’s response to the most severe incidents affecting our community: violent threats, safety escalations, and events that put guests, hosts, or the company at meaningful risk. In this role, you will connect an incident to the people and resources that can resolve it, then drive the approved actions to completion so that harm to our community stops as early as possible.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Community Crisis Investigator, you carry your own caseload and run the day-to-day response, with a defined check-in point for the calls that set precedent or carry external exposure. You assess incidents and bring what you learn back to the team. 

A Typical Day:

Crisis Case Work

• Assess incoming incidents and recommend whether a case meets the threshold for crisis implementation, drafting summaries concise and comprehensive enough that the decision-maker can act on them without sending them back.

• Outline and drive the case management actions needed for stakeholders to respond effectively, keeping the response moving inside the incident’s timeline.

• Research case precedent and consult stakeholders when a case does not fit an established pattern, and bring your recommended option with its reasoning rather than an open question.

• Prepare concise overviews and next steps for urgent, monitoring, or implemented cases, and note team updates or housekeeping items during regional check-ins.

Communication and Stakeholder Management

• Draft crisis case communication for senior stakeholders, and supply the case detail and assessment that executive notifications are built from.

• Keep stakeholders and GCM (Global Crisis Management) leadership current on case status proactively, before they ask.

• Hold day-to-day communication with your assigned cross-functional partners: maintain regular contact, come prepared to the agenda, and bring what you learn back to the global GCM team.

Systemic Improvement

• Flag where policy, product, or process failed the community member, with enough specificity that the owning team can act. The goal is closing the gap that allowed the incident, not only resolving the incident.

• Keep the case management tool accurate for your own cases and raise data or backlog problems you notice, so the team’s view of the global caseload stays trustworthy.

Team Contribution

• Review peers’ assessments as a second pair of eyes before submission, checking for errors, missing stakeholders, and recommendations worth adding.

• Share what you learn from your cases and stakeholder relationships with the team.

• Contribute to team culture and to a working environment where people can do this work sustainably.

Operational Rigor

• Maintain case documentation and trackers to a standard that supports accurate analytics and clean handoffs within and across regions.

• Complete work within the dedicated SLAs, and raise it early when a case is at risk of slipping rather than after it has.

Your Expertise:

• 6+ years of experience in customer support or front-line work handling escalated, sensitive cases, including crisis or survivor-facing work such as a crisis line, victim advocacy, emergency response, or trust and safety.

• Proven track record of working collaboratively with multi-functional leads in a matrixed organization.

• Experience working cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to stay focused with a calm demeanor in stressful situations.

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