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Salary: GBP 122,000 - 152,000 / annual
Airbnb's Cities team is seeking a Senior Compliance Lead for EMEA to own the company's platform regulatory compliance program across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This is an individual contributor role with significant scope and influence across the region's expanding regulatory landscape.
You will be the accountable owner for a portfolio of platform regulations including the Digital Services Act, UK Online Safety Act, and emerging obligations. Your responsibilities include:
• Establish and maintain operating processes and documentation to sustain regulatory obligations at scale, with ongoing status reporting and risk monitoring.
• Own the full regulatory reporting calendar—annual and ad hoc submissions—delivering against deadlines while continuously improving defensibility and efficiency.
• Identify new and changing regulatory obligations early, assess Airbnb's readiness, and recommend measures to achieve compliance.
• Translate regulatory requirements into scalable product and engineering solutions by partnering with Product and Engineering teams to shape roadmaps, sequence delivery, and validate outcomes against compliance standards.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Legal, Policy, and Product leadership on how Airbnb meets its regulatory commitments in the region.
You will work cross-functionally with Legal, Policy, Product, and Engineering, managing complexity and ambiguity while building consensus across stakeholders.
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 in 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 methodologies to auditors and regulators.
• Familiarity with regulatory technology and automation tools.
• Strategic mindset 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 balancing compliance, risk, and scalability.
• Proven leadership growing and coaching high-performing, diverse teams; comfortable leading through influence and structure.
