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Delivery Excellence Manager

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Ontario, Canada · Remote · CAD 94,000-117,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 14, 2026

At a glance

Experience
8+ years experience
Workplace
Remote
Location
Ontario, Canada · Remote
Salary
CAD 94,000-117,000 / year · Base salary

About the role

  • Airbnb is seeking a Delivery Excellence Manager to join the Community Support organization and lead a team of Team Specialists within Premium Support.
  • This is a new, full-time people manager position based in Canada East - Remote, managing a team of 7-8 Team Specialists across Canada and EMEA.
  • The role involves coaching and developing team members, helping transition the team to a regionalized operation, and driving projects that scale operations.

Responsibilities

  • Build and nurture an engaged, diverse team of seven to eight Team Specialists across Canada and EMEA.
  • Coach and uplevel Team Specialists, supporting and challenging them to meet and exceed expectations.
  • Mentor Team Specialists into larger project management initiatives, creating development paths and stretch assignments.
  • Identify and implement workflow improvements, maintain and improve Slack-based processes, and bring insights back to leadership.
  • Oversee scheduling, including maintaining NICE and related spreadsheets and managing the scheduling inbox.
  • Set and track targets for the quality, volume and turnaround of consult output.
  • Build a systematic, capacity-based approach to work intake and distribution and balance workloads fairly across the team.
  • Lead and coach Team Specialists to run fully structured projects, including process design, communications, change management plans and success tracking.
  • Drive automation and scaling initiatives, including AI-enabled tools that replace manual, spreadsheet-based processes.
  • Own and manage end-to-end people strategy and operations including hiring, onboarding, talent development, and people engagement/wellness/morale.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in contact center or customer service operations, including increasing responsibilities in strategy, operations optimization, and involvement in data and technology-driven programs.
  • Direct people management experience, including coaching, performance management and developing team members.
  • BA/BS degree required.
  • Background in customer service operations, with an in-depth understanding of how agents and managers work at scale and how to run operations effectively.
  • Hospitality or premium tier support knowledge, with a clear sense of what good looks like in supporting frontline teams.
  • AI fluency: active use of AI tools in your day-to-day work, with comfort leading a team that is rapidly adopting AI in its workflows.
  • Change management skills, with the ability to lead a team through a transition from informal to structured ways of working.
  • Ability to work weekend days and on-call required, with flexibility to adjust your hours to overlap with team members in EMEA.

Preferred qualifications

  • Structured project management (PMO) experience, including process documentation and scaling operations
  • Experience with Airtable or similar tools
  • Familiarity with NICE or similar workforce management tools
  • Experience working with EMEA teams or managing across time zones
  • MBA or equivalent Master’s degree strongly preferred

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits

Workplace

  • Canada - Remote East Eligible
  • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager
  • Flexibility to adjust hours to overlap with team members in EMEA

Skills

  • AI Tools
  • Slack
  • NICE
  • Airtable

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