# Senior Regulatory Operations Manager, Cities

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $139k – $163k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Regulatory Operations, Legal Compliance, Policy Compliance, Project Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Analysis, SQL, Stakeholder Management, Roadmap Alignment
**Posted:** 2026-05-21

> Lead regulatory compliance programs and initiatives for Airbnb's Cities team, partnering with Engineering, Data Science, Policy, and Legal to scale operations and manage cross-functional stakeholders.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and drive regulatory initiatives that unlock supply growth and proactively address risks
- Lead the development and execution of successfully scaled programs across discrete compliance verticals
- Create an operational rhythm and manage cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring initiatives are on track, and maintaining project documentation
- Analyze strategic opportunities for risk reduction across jurisdictions, partner with Engineering, Data Science, Policy and Legal to align roadmaps, and drive successful execution with measurable impact
- Support strategic projects to drive efficiency and effectiveness for the Operations team

## Requirements
- 8+ years of work experience in regulatory operations, legal/policy compliance, consulting, project management, or related fields
- Hands-on approach of getting things done with a sense of urgency and quickly adapting priorities to unexpected changes to achieve project goals and objectives
- Proven track record navigating a matrixed organization and building relationships to achieve goals with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, data science, and policy
- Strong analytical skills, including creating and using data, to understand problems, communicate opportunities, and make informed decisions
- Ability to make decisions balancing short-term gains with long-term strategic positioning
- Excellent organizational skills with high attention to detail and quality
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, excellent presentation skills
- Intellectually curious, open-minded self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and risk and excited by dynamic change

## Nice-to-Haves
- SQL knowledge

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