Senior Manager - Recruiting Operations
The Community you will join:
The Recruiting team at Airbnb partners closely with leaders throughout the company to hire the best talent in a generation. Our team is data-driven, adaptable and innovative in our approach and seeks to establish consultative relationships with the business, acting as an advisor and trusted partner. We are committed to efficiency and upholding the highest standards of excellence, while fostering diversity and belonging. Recruiting Operations specifically has the mission of building the most advanced technology and operations focused backbone to our Recruiting organization, providing best-in-class enablement to the function with innovative technology, data, and process infrastructure.
The difference you will make:
Airbnb is seeking a strategic and technically fluent Recruiting Operations leader to oversee the global Recruiting technology ecosystem, data infrastructure, and operational excellence initiatives that power Global Recruiting. This role will lead implementation of core recruiting systems and programs with the rigor and governance required for global adoption, scalability, and compliance.
The ideal candidate is a deep functional expert who can bridge strategy and execution—someone who understands recruiting inside-out, sees around corners, and thrives at the intersection of technology, operations, and business impact.
A typical day:
Recruiting Systems Leadership: Oversee all recruiting systems, integrations, and tools ensuring functionality, scalability, and seamless user experience across teams and regions.
Technology Roadmap & Governance: Partner with internal technology teams, Legal, Privacy, and Recruiting Leadership to define the tool roadmap and governance model, ensuring compliance, data integrity, and sustainable process design.
ATS Strategy & RFP Ownership: Lead the RFP, evaluation, and implementation of a new Applicant Tracking System; build foundational infrastructure and change-management plans for successful adoption.
Data, Reporting & Insights: Own global recruiting data architecture, dashboards, and reporting integrity. Deliver insights that enable executive decision-making and empower recruiting managers to drive accountability.
Cross-Functional Partnerships: Collaborate closely with RMT (Recruiting Management Team), BizTech, Finance, and Legal to operationalize workflows that support international expansion and evolving regulatory needs.
Program Implementation: Lead rollout of enterprise initiatives with disciplined project management, ensuring adoption and measurable efficiency gains across recruiting teams.
Operational Design: Define how recruiting functions collaborate—establishing frameworks, playbooks, and service models that move Recruiting Ops from reactive support to intentional, strategic enablement.
Effectively Lead, Coach and Develop the Recruiting Operations team to deliver upon our roadmap and goals and support their growth and development.
Your expertise:
15+ years of experience in Recruiting Operations, HR Technology, or Business Systems Management.
Expert in enterprise recruiting and data systems such as Greenhouse, Workday, and Tableau, with proven success integrating or optimizing these platforms to improve operational efficiency and data accuracy.
Experience leveraging agentic AI and automation tools to enhance recruiting workflows, reporting, and decision-making.
Proven track record and expert at implementing or migrating large-scale ATS or CRM systems.
Deep understanding of recruiting workflows, data architecture, and compliance frameworks.
Strong technical fluency—able to partner effectively with engineering, BizTech, and data teams on integrations and infrastructure.
Exceptional stakeholder management skills; trusted partner to Recruiting, Legal, Privacy, and Finance.
Global experience with international compliance, localization, and scalability of recruiting tools and processes.
Strategic thinker with an operational lens—able to translate vision into structure, and structure into measurable impact.
Strong leadership and people management skills
Your Location:
This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
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Senior Manager - Recruiting Operations
The Community you will join:
The Recruiting team at Airbnb partners closely with leaders throughout the company to hire the best talent in a generation. Our team is data-driven, adaptable and innovative in our approach and seeks to establish consultative relationships with the business, acting as an advisor and trusted partner. We are committed to efficiency and upholding the highest standards of excellence, while fostering diversity and belonging. Recruiting Operations specifically has the mission of building the most advanced technology and operations focused backbone to our Recruiting organization, providing best-in-class enablement to the function with innovative technology, data, and process infrastructure.
The difference you will make:
Airbnb is seeking a strategic and technically fluent Recruiting Operations leader to oversee the global Recruiting technology ecosystem, data infrastructure, and operational excellence initiatives that power Global Recruiting. This role will lead implementation of core recruiting systems and programs with the rigor and governance required for global adoption, scalability, and compliance.
The ideal candidate is a deep functional expert who can bridge strategy and execution—someone who understands recruiting inside-out, sees around corners, and thrives at the intersection of technology, operations, and business impact.
A typical day:
Recruiting Systems Leadership: Oversee all recruiting systems, integrations, and tools ensuring functionality, scalability, and seamless user experience across teams and regions.
Technology Roadmap & Governance: Partner with internal technology teams, Legal, Privacy, and Recruiting Leadership to define the tool roadmap and governance model, ensuring compliance, data integrity, and sustainable process design.
ATS Strategy & RFP Ownership: Lead the RFP, evaluation, and implementation of a new Applicant Tracking System; build foundational infrastructure and change-management plans for successful adoption.
Data, Reporting & Insights: Own global recruiting data architecture, dashboards, and reporting integrity. Deliver insights that enable executive decision-making and empower recruiting managers to drive accountability.
Cross-Functional Partnerships: Collaborate closely with RMT (Recruiting Management Team), BizTech, Finance, and Legal to operationalize workflows that support international expansion and evolving regulatory needs.
Program Implementation: Lead rollout of enterprise initiatives with disciplined project management, ensuring adoption and measurable efficiency gains across recruiting teams.
Operational Design: Define how recruiting functions collaborate—establishing frameworks, playbooks, and service models that move Recruiting Ops from reactive support to intentional, strategic enablement.
Effectively Lead, Coach and Develop the Recruiting Operations team to deliver upon our roadmap and goals and support their growth and development.
Your expertise:
15+ years of experience in Recruiting Operations, HR Technology, or Business Systems Management.
Expert in enterprise recruiting and data systems such as Greenhouse, Workday, and Tableau, with proven success integrating or optimizing these platforms to improve operational efficiency and data accuracy.
Experience leveraging agentic AI and automation tools to enhance recruiting workflows, reporting, and decision-making.
Proven track record and expert at implementing or migrating large-scale ATS or CRM systems.
Deep understanding of recruiting workflows, data architecture, and compliance frameworks.
Strong technical fluency—able to partner effectively with engineering, BizTech, and data teams on integrations and infrastructure.
Exceptional stakeholder management skills; trusted partner to Recruiting, Legal, Privacy, and Finance.
Global experience with international compliance, localization, and scalability of recruiting tools and processes.
Strategic thinker with an operational lens—able to translate vision into structure, and structure into measurable impact.
Strong leadership and people management skills
Your Location:
This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.