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The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is seeking a business-oriented Lead Privacy Counsel with deep experience in the GDPR and European privacy laws to join our growing legal team.

The Difference You will Make:

You will play a critical role within our global privacy team, and work across multiple global teams and regions providing support and advice to Airbnb’s business & product teams.  You must have excellent judgment in balancing legal risks with business strategy and a proven ability to learn new areas of law and function independently in a demanding fast-paced environment. We’re looking for a highly adaptable and collaborative person who can handle ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities with flexibility, patience, and poise.

A Typical Day: 

• Provide focused and pragmatic advice on the implementation and impact of global privacy laws to our Chief Privacy Officer’s team.
• Drive compliance strategies for the GDPR, and other European data privacy and personal information collection rules, regulations and standards.
• Collaborate with legal colleagues responsible for strategy around our interactions with European data protection authorities to ensure that regulatory requirements are properly incorporated into product development.
• Assist product lawyers, product managers, and engineers, in evaluating the impact of privacy laws, regulatory guidance and enforcement actions, and other related guidelines on product features;
• Provide support on a wide variety of privacy issues as needed such as DPIAs, international data transfers, marketing-related privacy issues such as consent requirements and cookie compliance.
• Help draft and oversee the development and management of Airbnb’s terms and data policies.

Your Expertise:

• Fluency in English is essential. Additional languages are a significant advantage.
• Qualified as a lawyer in at least one EU jurisdiction, preferably with one or more CIPP certifications.
• At least 8 years post-qualification experience, with significant relevant privacy/data protection law experience at a law firm, in-house or in a Data Protection Authority. Ideally, you would also have relevant in-house experience in a multinational, preferably in the tech / digital space.
• Strong academic credentials.
• Substantive knowledge and demonstrated expertise in global data protection law, in particular relevant laws in the EEA.
• Exceptional ability to consistently deliver creative, thoughtful and business-oriented results that appropriately balance growth and risk in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment.
• Intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity and risk, and excited by dynamic change and solving problems.
• Ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously while prioritizing competing tasks in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
• Willingness to work outside of traditional hours in order to collaborate with colleagues based around the world.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, intellectual curiosity, sense of humor, and willingness to grow.

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.