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Sofía ÁlvarezJoined · 202305 / 08

Mexico City

CST · UTC-6

ex-Airbnb

01·Team · People

Sofía Álvarez

Head of People

"Hiring people who make everyone around them better."

02·About

A little more about Sofía

Sofía runs everything people-related — hiring, onboarding, compensation, career growth, and the quiet cultural work that makes a distributed team actually feel like a team.

Before Joblo she led People Ops for Airbnb's LATAM org through their IPO. She's the reason our attrition is under 4% and our internal transfer rate is 3× the industry average.

Philosophy
"Hiring is easy. Retention is hard. If we're hiring more than we're keeping, we're the problem, not the market."

Currently working on

Rewriting our compensation philosophy for 2026 — same target comp regardless of location, adjusted for cost-of-living within tighter bands.

03·Career

Where Sofía has been

  1. A

    People Ops Lead, LATAM

    2018 — 2023

    Airbnb

    — IPO year

  2. U

    HR Business Partner

    2015 — 2018

    Uber

  3. P

    Consultant, Talent

    2012 — 2015

    PwC