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Salary: USD 210,000 - 258,000 / annual
Airbnb's Legal Department is seeking a Senior Counsel with deep expertise in global privacy laws and regulatory compliance to join the growing legal team. This role focuses on product privacy with a specific emphasis on payments and insurance products.
In this position, you will serve as the primary privacy legal advisor for Airbnb's Payments and Insurance processes and products globally. You will shape how privacy legal requirements are embedded into these products and processes, advising on privacy implications of payment processing, payouts, financial product features, fraud prevention systems, and insurance products including AirCover and Host Protection Insurance across all markets.
Key responsibilities include:
- Advising on the intersection of privacy law and payments/insurance obligations globally, including PCI-DSS adjacencies, state and national financial privacy laws in the US, and international payment data requirements
- Advising on the regulatory intersection of insurance laws and privacy laws across key markets
- Supporting Commercial Legal in negotiating contracts with payment processors and insurance providers
- Acting as a key cross-functional influencer with Payments and Insurance Legal and Privacy Management teams to identify privacy legal risks early in the product lifecycle
- Partnering with Lead Counsel, Product Privacy, Privacy Managers, and regional counsels to align privacy guidance across geographies
- Monitoring and advising on privacy legal and regulatory requirements related to data privacy for payments and insurance products
- Providing advice to the Privacy Operations team on implementing global privacy compliance requirements related to data governance and lifecycle management
You will work across multiple global teams and regions, balancing legal risks with business strategy while functioning independently in a fast-paced environment. The role requires excellent judgment, adaptability, and the ability to handle ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of privacy law experience with depth in financial data privacy, payments, or insurance-adjacent regulatory contexts
- Demonstrated experience advising on global payments or financial services data practices in a B2C or platform context
- Experience working across legal, compliance, and commercial functions in a matrixed organization
- Strong understanding of the intersection of privacy law and financial data regulation, including CCPA, GLBA, PCI-DSS adjacencies, and equivalent international frameworks
- Familiarity with insurance data regulatory requirements and how they intersect with global privacy law across key markets
- Ability to advise on data minimization, legal basis, and transparency requirements for complex financial and insurance product features
- Ability to influence across product, payments, legal, and compliance stakeholders without formal authority
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to synthesize complex regulatory intersections into clear, actionable product guidance
- Comfortable managing a broad, global scope across two distinct product verticals simultaneously
