CS Delivery - Specialist, Safety

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.

We are looking for a talented and experienced person, who will look after a variety of Safety concerns for our community, including but not limited to: Discrimination, Personal Safety Threats, Domestic Violence, Suicide or Self Harm, Child Exploitation, Physical Assault and Sexual Assault, Drugs activity, Sex Work and Human Trafficking.  

 

The successful candidate will demonstrate an excellent understanding of how to properly identify threatening and harmful circumstances, empathetic communication, use of good judgment,  and quick decision making, with the goal of providing the best support possible for the Survivors and restore their status quo. 

 

This is a full time position based in Singapore. This position is a frontline, contact center role interacting directly with the customers. Successful candidates need strong communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and customer service expertise. They should also be adaptable and responsive in our fast paced environment, sometimes under pressure, while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, efficient and demonstrating a high level of professionalism and confidentiality.       

 

As part of this role, you are required to be flexible and may be required to move to different teams within Community Support and/or take up different responsibilities from those set out below. The ideal candidate will be open to a role which will evolve based on business needs and will be flexible to meet those needs.        

 

Responsibilities

The responsibilities listed below are not exhaustive. Given the fast-moving nature of this work, the responsibilities set out below may change and additional duties may be assigned as needed.

Complex case management: Has “perfected the core” of your role of providing the highest level of service to our community 

• Interact with Airbnb customers and community members through all current and future channels, both inside and outside of Airbnb tools, including livechat, social platforms, messaging, and directly through the phone

• End-to-end management of complex cases with the objective to resolve customers’ issues based on workflows & management guidelines 

• Recognize case type/severity and work cases correctly according to your service’s scope, escalating accurately to other teams when appropriate

• Takes on casework at a degree of severity/complexity under close supervision

• Ability to recognize & assess threatening & risky behaviors

• Demonstrate ownership mentality & good judgment as well as skill to question and deviate from the workflow when needed only through management approval

• Be highly receptive to feedback from management, Quality & clinical staff teams and quickly adopt behaviors to improve the quality of your work 

• Understands multiple perspectives on a topic or situation

• Able to evaluate and present multiple options for addressing a problem

• Can be brought to engage more with senior stakeholders with help from management

Combining efficiency with quality: 

• Has displayed an ability to handle a larger volume of cases without negatively impacting the quality of the interaction & the resolution

Participating in the Safety Service improvement: Leverage your functional operational knowledge to support the team succeed

• Help document ways of working, best practices, and the norms for your service(s) as requested by management

• Provides technical/functional/SME to less experienced members of the team.&l