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Lead Business Process Improvement

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Remote · USD 132,000-155,000 · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 19, 2026

At a glance

Experience
5+ years experience
Workplace
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
USD 132,000-155,000 · Base salary

About the role

  • As a Business Process Improvement (BPI) Lead, you are responsible for driving large-scale, cross-functional improvement projects that help to improve customer support for our community.
  • The Business Process Improvement team focuses on improving processes across all Community Support, leveraging Lean Six Sigma methodologies and general business process engineering principles.

Responsibilities

  • Leads large cross-functional process engineering initiatives from problem definition through measurable outcomes.
  • Apply systems thinking: mapping full upstream and downstream context before prescribing solutions.
  • Design processes for AI-readiness and automation, including reducing agent and customer burden.
  • Build some AI prototypes to communicate and validate process designs.
  • Use some basic process simulation to model how a designed process will behave under real-world conditions.
  • Continuously improve process designs of Community Support experiences that document the full interaction across the customer journey.
  • Implement process measurement systems from the start of every design.
  • Lead change management for process transitions, ensuring new designs are adopted effectively.
  • Partner with Product and Technology teams to translate process requirements into tooling specifications.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Data Analytics, and Operations.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of post-graduate experience in operations (industrial engineering or similar preferred experience)
  • Advanced knowledge of customer service and contact center operations
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certified or equivalent process engineering expertise
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve quality and efficiency within internal workflows
  • Demonstrated ability to design processes for AI-readiness and automation
  • Proven experience applying systems thinking to process design
  • Strong statistical and data-driven analytical skills, including statistical process control methods, regression analysis, and measurement system analysis
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to travel up to 20% of time

Preferred qualifications

  • Preferred Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering, Engineering, or a related field
  • Additional consideration given to Agile, service design, and Industrial and Systems Engineering experience

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits

Workplace

  • US - Remote Eligible
  • May include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites

Skills

  • Lean Six Sigma
  • AI
  • Data Analytics

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