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
Proactive intelligence: Lead a team that identifies and disrupts novel fraud threats before they scale — turning raw signals into platform defenses faster than bad actors can adapt.
Regional compliance and advocacy: Understand regional legal requirements, local compliance, and cultural nuances across FSO queues — ensuring enforcement is locally appropriate and globally consistent.
Global-to-local translation: Ensure that every global playbook, product launch, and policy built lands cleanly in local markets — without creating compliance risk or impacting local user experience.
Manage the Fraud Intelligence manager and three Global Trust Advocacy: regional leads (APAC, EMEA, LATAM) — building a high-performance, distributed team with clear goals, regular coaching, and a strong culture of ownership.
Set the strategy and operating rhythm for how Intelligence & Advocacy: delivers against I&I's roadmap and FSI's organizational priorities.
Represent Intelligence & Advocacy on the FSI leadership team: bringing the proactive intelligence and regional advocacy perspective to org-wide decisions.
What they're looking for
- Build and deepen strategic relationships with regional GMs, Country Managers,: and local leadership across every market.
- Own the strategic direction of FRINT: the team responsible for proactively identifying, analyzing, and disrupting novel fraud threats before they scale across the platform.
- Oversee the team's intelligence cycle: detecting anomalies and emerging patterns, analyzing fraud networks and threat actor methodologies, implementing real-time mitigations via grigri and live rules engines, and reporting findings to leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Partner with Trust Engineering, Data Science, and Product to translate: intelligence findings into automated detection rules, platform defenses, and upstream policy changes.
