Quality Insights Lead
Airbnb · Posted Oct 16
Short-term home rentals, boutique hotel bookings, travel experiences, and hosting services
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About the role
The Quality Insights Lead supports the daily operations of Airbnb's Customer Support Quality program, setting a high standard for quality across the CS organization and driving continuous improvement through analysis, business case development, reporting on Quality monitoring, and Problem Solving Methodologies. The role uses AI-driven conversation intelligence solutions such as Observe.AI to analyze customer interactions at scale and convert machine-generated insights into service enhancements and coaching priorities. Reporting to the Quality Manager, the QIL acts as the Quality representative for other CS teams, leads calibration sessions, coaches agents, and may oversee Quality Partner sites.
What you will do
- Provide daily support for Quality programs.
- Design and oversee deep-dive projects for regional QIA teams to drive service improvements, managing through to project completion.
- Execute QI and ad-hoc after-action reviews.
- Use transaction monitoring insights to develop targeted continuous improvement initiatives for customer service enhancements.
- Utilize AI-driven conversation intelligence solutions, such as Observe.AI, to oversee and analyze customer interactions at scale, validating model-driven scores and automated evaluations to pinpoint systemic performance gaps.
- Convert machine-generated insights from AI-assisted monitoring into strategic service enhancements and targeted coaching priorities.
- Participate in and lead global calibration sessions with internal and partner teams to standardize Quality monitoring and Problem Solving methodologies.
- Provide feedback on coaching effectiveness for internal and partner Team Leads, fostering a coaching culture.
- Coach CS agents to achieve Quality program standards.
- Act as the Quality representative for other CS teams (e.g., CM, BPI, Training) and contribute to relevant projects.
- Collect, analyze, and propose changes derived from Support Ambassador roundtable insights at internal and partner sites.
- Travel to partner sites to implement, train, and run key QA initiatives (e.g., onboarding workshops, certifications).
- Master CS policies, procedures, and workflows, ensuring timely knowledge updates for regional QIA teams.
- Conduct spot checks on Quality Analysts and report findings to their QA Leads/Managers.
- Recommend actions to improve based on QA dashboard outcomes.
- Upskill in relevant or new service tiers when needed.
- Lead Quality at partner sites if required.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Technical & Analytical Depth; strong analytical, statistical, and automation background — able to design and build AI-enabled tooling that streamlines review processes while maintaining rigor and high-quality analysis.
- Pursuing Excellence; setting the highest standards for the quality of work produced while holding yourself and others accountable
- Collaborative; skilled working with cross-functional peers/teams
- Presenting and Influencing; ability to develop action plans, business cases and data driven reporting that you would present to all levels of the organization
- Coaching; You objectively analyze performance and provide regular feedback. You modify your approach to suit your audience. Ability to maintain high levels of confidentiality while providing analysis and coaching. Maintain high levels of confidentiality while performing analysis and coaching
- Solving Problems; You quickly identify root causes as well as subtle, hidden issues. You use logic to propose effective solutions to a variety of problems. You dig deeper and utilize all available resources to reach the best possible solution.
- Managing Time Efficiently; You prioritize correctly, focusing your efforts on the things that are most important. You stay organized to ensure successful multitasking.
- 4-6 years of Customer Experience management experience in a rapidly growing partner network
- Experience working in a QA Specialist or related role
- Working knowledge of contact center end to end processes
- Working knowledge of customer service assessment tools, i.e., Net Promoter System
- Working knowledge of google suite, including sheets
- Experience leading, inspiring and motivating others to meet goals and metrics
- Passionate about setting a high bar of exceptional customer service
- Highly-developed analytical and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to spot trends in data and provide recommended actions to drive performance
- Experience with AI automation workflows within contact center Quality environments; includes validating AI-generated outputs, identifying anomalies, and interpreting model-driven trends to formulate actionable service improvements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to obtain COPC certification
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Travel to partner sites expected up to 20%
- Work with Operations teams in the region to address escalated issues, dips in performance and the roll out of new Quality initiatives to drive performance.
Preferred qualifications
- Exceptional coaching abilities
- Advanced knowledge of Excel or Google Docs
- Strong knowledge of NPS and Quality tools (e.g. Medallia)
- Hands-on experience utilizing Observe.AI or equivalent AI-driven conversation intelligence solutions, specifically involving speech analytics, automated scoring, and real-time guidance.
- Expertise in market-leading contact center Quality Assurance platforms and global program frameworks.
- Proven ability to operate alongside AI automation workflows; includes assessing AI-facilitated customer interactions, pinpointing model anomalies, and converting machine-generated insights into strategic service enhancements.
- Quality Assurance certification (e.g. COPC)
- Ability to create and deliver presentations to the organization
Benefits and support
- Bonus or incentives
- Equity programs
- Employee Travel Credits
About Airbnb
Airbnb operates a premier global online marketplace that connects travelers with hosts offering unique lodging accommodations, boutique hotels, and curated experiences worldwide. The platform enables millions of people to monetize their spaces and discover authentic local travel experiences across more than 220 countries and regions. By blending community-driven hospitality with innovative AI-powered tools, Airbnb has redefined the modern travel and sharing economy.
- Industry
- Travel
- Company size
- 8000+ employees
- Founded
- 2008
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $3.07B raised
- 2020-04-06Series E$1B
- 2020-04-01Private Equity$1B
- 2015-06-29Series D$1.5B
- 2014-04-16Series C$475M
- 2011-07-24Series B$112M
- 2010-11-01Series A$7.2M
- 2009-01-01Seed$600K
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
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