Vendor Performance Manager

The Community You Will Join:

The Enterprise Operations Workforce Management team is responsible for partnering with third party vendors to acquire and manage hosts on the Airbnb platform. As a Vendor Performance Manager, you will be the primary operational owner for strategic vendor relationships critical to scaling and managing the Homes program.

The Difference You Will Make:

This role is remote within Toronto, Canada. This role is not eligible for relocation support.

As a Vendor Performance Manager for Homes, you set the portfolio vision and governance for Airbnb's global vendor ecosystem-defining standards, incentives, and the operating model so vendors become a strategic lever for growth, cost efficiency, quality, compliance, and risk control. You act as a senior advisor who translates operational and market signals into clear tradeoff recommendations, aligns leaders on priorities and investment, and institutionalizes executive visibility through rigorous performance narratives. You steward contract and policy alignment, mature workflows, and establish the accountability mechanisms that elevate vendor performance from execution to durable business impact.

A Typical Day:

• Lead portfoliolevel performance programs and governance across multiple strategic vendors, setting targets, incentives, and corrective mechanisms to deliver business outcomes.
• Translate complex operational signals into executiveready narratives and recommendations, securing decisions from senior stakeholders and vendor leaders.
• Structure and drive crossfunctional initiatives with Policy, Legal, Product, Finance, and Enablement to resolve ambiguous, multistakeholder issues and derisk operations.
• Conduct deepdive analyses to identify root causes, drive accountability, and land corrective actions.
• Develop and negotiate tradeoff recommendations with senior stakeholders to balance growth, cost, quality, and risk, building consensus and securing decisions.
• Own regular business reviews across the vendor portfolio; track results, enforce governance, and hold partners accountable.
• Ensure adherence to contractual, security, and policy requirements, proactively identifying and mitigating operational and compliance risks.
• Serve as the point of escalation for highimpact issues; assess business and organizational risk and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Establish operating rhythms and executiveready reporting that convert complex data into business context, decisions, and action.
• Provide functional guidance and mentorship to junior team members or cross-functional partners on vendor performance management best practices.

Your Expertise:

• Experience: 10+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years in vendor management, supplier relationship management, or outsourced operations performance in highvolume, global environments.
• Crossfunctional program leadership: Proven track record leading programs with notable risk and complexity; operates with minimal guidance and sets strategy for execution.
• Subjectmatter expertise: Recognized expertise in vendor/outsourced performance; communicates difficult concepts, negotiates at senior levels, and converts complex data into compelling business recommendations.
• Analytical judgment under ambiguity: Structures tradeoffs across growth, cost, customer experience, and risk; advanced BI/spreadsheet skills with SQL preferred.
• Technology & CRM proficiency: Deep working knowledge of CRM (Salesforce) and sales enablement tools (e.g., MixMax, Gong) to optimize workflows and operational efficiency.
• Operational excellence: Deep understanding of contact center operations, quality assurance methodologies, and process improvement frameworks (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma).
• Communication & influence: Exceptional written and verbal communication; presents complex information clearly and influences stakeholders at all levels.
• Program/project management: Experience managing complex operational projects with clear timelines, deliverables, and crossfunctional dependencies.

Your Location:

This position is Canada - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a province where Airbnb Canada, Inc. has a registered entity. Currently we can hire in the following provinces: Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with your recruiter on what provinces you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you're applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

We use automated tools to help our recruiting team efficiently screen a large volume of applications. All final hiring decisions are made by a human reviewer.

This role is for an existing vacancy within the organization.