Delivery Excellence Manager
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