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Airbnb

Connects travelers with stays and local activities

Senior Planning Partner - Content

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCanada

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in strategic planning, program management, or business operations, with demonstrated success.
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional planning processes or portfolio management, with exposure to senior leadership.
  • Exceptional oral, written, and presentation communication skills with all levels of an organization.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a good understanding of systems implementation and change management.
  • Proficiency with remote collaboration and project management tools such as Asana, Jira, and Airtable.
  • Strategic thinking and organizational skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with different teams.
  • Practical knowledge of the software product development lifecycle and methodologies.
  • Ability to de-escalate tense situations and resolve conflicts professionally and empathetically.
  • Ability to manage multiple launches and competing priorities simultaneously while ensuring deliverables are completed on time and within project scope.
  • Comfort adapting to changing priorities and ability to propose solutions in a dynamic, ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
  • Experience planning or coordinating content, knowledge management, or product launches.

Responsibilities

  • Build proactive dialogue with cross-functional partners and stakeholders through regular follow-ups, communicating planning timelines and upcoming milestones, and feedback sessions to build trust and align with their goals and objectives.
  • Identify all launch owners in advance, including the writer and strategist for affected content; approvers for marketing, legal, and technical expertise; localization partners; and cross-functional partners such as taxonomy, training, the resource center, Biztech, and other project managers with related work.
  • Develop the content schedule and communicate it to content requesters and approvers, collecting approver unavailability dates and allowing time for content audits, writing, technical accuracy checks, marketing and legal reviews, localization, and contingency.
  • Plan and facilitate each launch meeting series, including launch intake with product, engineering, and launch readiness teams; content audit sessions; a pre-launch marketing meeting; recurring weekly launch-status meetings with content and technical experts; and launch-day Mission Control meeting and Slack channel.
  • Collaborate with strategists during content audits to identify all affected content, prioritize impacts as P1 (launch day), P2 (short-term follow-ups), and P3 (all other items), ensure a ticket is opened for each affected article, and flag user-interface content and localization requirements.
  • Prepare and send weekly status updates to content managers and content owners, including affected articles and their P1/P2/P3 status, so risks such as audit schedules, late approvals, and launch-date changes are visible early.
  • Anticipate risks and issues and proactively develop mitigation strategies, driving issues through resolution rather than only tracking status; maintain a process for identifying and flagging late content requests as at risk.
  • Send regular reminders to launch owners and schedule live approval meetings with marketing, engineering, legal, and other stakeholders when approvers do not respond asynchronously.
  • Prepare cross-functional communications for partner teams affected by the work, such as localization, Biztech, knowledge management, and training.
  • Coordinate real-time publishing on launch day after launch readiness gives approval, ensuring the content team knows it is safe to publish.
  • Participate in launch meetings, real-time coordination sessions, and contact center sessions organized by other teams to represent the content team, provide updates, answer questions, and keep the content team informed about emerging issues.
  • Handle launch logistics, obtain missing information and approvals, and remove blockers so writers can focus on content.
  • Prepare launch retrospectives for leadership describing what was published and content performance, and maintain a record of published content for reporting, highlighting successes, and documenting lessons learned.
  • Track and report the status of issues escalated after launch.
  • Promote continuous improvement and simplification of content planning processes, and establish feedback mechanisms to communicate follow-up actions to partners and stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with Agile methodology is an asset.

About the Company

Airbnb

Connects travelers with stays and local activities

Airbnb runs an online marketplace where travelers book places to stay, local activities and personal services from hosts. Listings range from rooms in shared homes to entire properties and independent hotels, giving guests alternatives to conventional hotel stays. Hosts set prices and availability, while guests search by destination, compare listings and book through the website or mobile app. The platform handles payments and messaging, and earns service fees on reservations rather than renting out properties it owns; hosts receive payouts for the stays, experiences or services they arrange. Airbnb was founded in 2007 and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2007

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