The opportunity
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences…
What you'll do
Serve as the senior compensation advisor to Technology leadership across: functions such as Engineering, Infrastructure, ML/AI, and Data Science, owning the organization's most consequential decisions: contested offers, retention actions, annual equity awards, and precedent-setting leveling exceptions
Provide direction and counsel to multiple Talent Directors and their teams,: and carry recommendations to senior leadership and cross-functional executives across Talent, Finance, and Legal
Own Airbnb's market positioning for technical talent and the frameworks: behind it: benchmarking methodology that supplements survey data with recruiting signals and real-time sources, role evaluation that weights AI expertise, research impact, and scarce skills, and survey participation strategy for technical benchmarks
Help build the design, strategy, and execution of complex global compensation: programs — carrying accountability for cost, budget, and return on investment — and shape the adjacent Total Rewards programs beyond your client group, including pay equity, job architecture and leveling, pay transparency, and workforce planning
Construct the financial models that project the long-term implications of: compensation strategy and inform executive and board-level planning
Partner with regional Total Rewards Partners across EMEA, APAC, and India to: maintain a consistent global view of technical compensation, resolving cases where regional market dynamics and global consistency conflict
What they're looking for
- Lead compensation cycle strategy for Technology end-to-end, from budget: modeling and exception frameworks through manager enablement and executive rollups
- Cultivate the external network across survey providers, consultancies, and: peer companies that surfaces what surveys miss, and translate it into proactive recommendations for leadership and the decisions needed to close priority candidates
- Build the compensation models, tools, and frameworks the broader Compensation: team relies on, including AI-powered benchmarking, offer generation, and workflow automation, and partner with Talent Operations, Talent Systems, and People Analytics on the dashboards that put market data and offer guidance directly in the hands of recruiters, hiring managers, and Talent Directors
- Champion technical compensation expertise across the team, mentoring partners: and analysts and building the enablement materials that help tech leaders apply Airbnb's compensation philosophy with confidence
