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Salary: EUR 132,000 - 165,000 / annual
Airbnb's Cities team is seeking a Senior Compliance Lead for EMEA to own the company's platform regulatory compliance program across Europe and the UK. This role is accountable for a rapidly expanding portfolio of regulations including the Digital Services Act, UK Online Safety Act, and other emerging EU and UK obligations.
You will translate regulatory obligations into durable operating processes, defensible reporting methodologies, and product changes. You will serve as a trusted advisor to Legal, Policy, and Product leadership on how Airbnb meets its regulatory commitments in the region.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning the EMEA compliance portfolio by establishing operating processes and documentation that sustain obligations at scale, and reporting and monitoring status and risk
- Delivering regulatory reporting and submissions end-to-end, managing the annual and ad hoc reporting calendar, and iterating to make each cycle faster and more defensible
- Assessing new and changing obligations early, evaluating readiness, and recommending measures required to meet them
- Translating regulatory requirements into scalable solutions by defining product, engineering, and data requirements, and partnering with Product and Engineering to shape roadmap, sequence delivery, and validate outcomes
This is an individual contributor role focused on compliance program ownership and strategic regulatory management, not a people-management position.
Requirements:
- 12+ years of experience in regulatory compliance, compliance program management, or regulatory operations, preferably in a technology platform or highly regulated industry
- Proven track record owning a multi-jurisdiction, cross-functional compliance program end-to-end, with direct experience across the Digital Services Act and UK Online Safety Act
- Hands-on experience with recurring regulator-facing reporting cycles and relationship management
- Track record partnering with Product and Engineering to deliver regulatory requirements into live products
- Data fluency to define, own, and defend reporting methodology to auditors and regulators
- Familiarity with regulatory technology and automation tools
- Ability to operate with a strategic lens, connecting regulatory requirements to long-term business objectives and functional roadmaps
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills; ability to transform ambiguity into clarity and move from complexity to consensus
- Strong analytical skills and ability to design operational structures that balance compliance, risk, and scalability
- Proven leadership growing and coaching high-performing, diverse teams; comfortable leading through influence as well as structure
