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Senior Guest Community Engagement Manager (Guest Advisory Board)
Airbnb · 🇺🇸 United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 167 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 71 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Airbnb paid sponsored hires in similar roles6 certified filings for “Engineering Manager” (Architectural and Engineering Managers) in CA: $214k–$250k, median $233k. Most were filed at wage level IV (50%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Airbnb
The US Department of Labor certified 167 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 71 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join As part of the Community Engagement team, the Community Voice brings hosts and guests closer to Airbnb to shape our products and policies. The team innovates to build and run highly visible programs (e.g. the Host Advisory Boards, host workshops and panels, insights and now the Guest Advisory Board) to deepen relationships with hosts and guests by listening to and strategically elevating their needs and ideas across Airbnb. The team operates in a functional way to support the Airbnb organization across homes, experiences, services by working closely with other functional teams Product, Design, Policy, Marketing, Business and In-House teams. The Difference You Will Make This is a highly visible, foundational role responsible focused on execution across: • Guest Community Programs — Lead and operate Airbnb's guest-facing Community Voice programs end-to-end, from strategy through day-to-day execution — including standing up and growing our first guest advisory group. This work sits at the intersection of community building, program management and insights, and requires someone who thrives in execution and is comfortable developing strategy for brand-new programs. • Guest Community Engagement — Grow and engage Airbnb's emerging guest community through global workshops, insight sessions and pilots that test new approaches, partnering with cross-functional teams (including Product, Business, Policy, Marketing, Design, Research and PR/Comms) to scope, execute and evaluate them. The role reports to the Director, Community Voice. A Typical Day Guest Advisory Board Program • Own end-to-end program delivery including selection and vetting, onboarding and offboarding, feedback sessions, engagement channels, events and the recognition and compensation strategy for members. • Own operations with Legal including NDAs, participation agreements and renewals to maintain program integrity • Build and own direct one-to-one relationships with Board members, acting as their primary point of contact and monitoring sentiment and engagement to sustain a highly trusted group over time. • Synthesize Board feedback into clear, actionable readouts for senior stakeholders across Product, Policy, Marketing, Design, Partnerships and Research, and represent the Board's voice internally. • Develop playbooks that evolve as we learn for the execution of the program, how to uplevel and increase influence across Airbnb. • Own the feedback session pipeline in partnership with Product, Policy, Marketing and Business, scheduling and prioritizing topics most relevant to company roadmap • Own community escalations end to end. Track them to resolution and close the loop with the member — and flag anything that signals a broader product or policy issue. • Direct the central Voice ops team on day-to-day coordination, member support and logistics. Guest Community Engagement • Plan and deliver global and local guest workshops, partnering with regional teams to source participants, facilitate sessions and produce readouts for internal stakeholders. • Support the execution of pilots that test new approaches to guest community partnering with cross-functional teams to scope, resource, execute, report and evaluate them. • Absorb and triage inbound guest-community requests from the Business, Marketing and Product orgs, to determine what requires Community Voice input and how we c