Senior Counsel, Product Privacy

Airbnb

2h•$210,000 - $258,000•Remote

About The Position

Airbnb is seeking a business-oriented Senior Counsel with deep experience in global privacy laws and regulatory compliance to join its global privacy and cybersecurity legal team. The role provides legal support and advice to Airbnb’s business across multiple teams and regions, balancing legal risks with business strategy and applying local and global perspectives. The successful candidate will be adaptable, collaborative, comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities, and able to work independently in a demanding, fast-paced environment. The Senior Counsel will serve as the primary privacy legal advisor for Airbnb’s global Payments and Insurance processes and products. This includes advising on payment processing, payouts, financial product features, fraud prevention systems, and Airbnb insurance products such as AirCover, Host Protection Insurance, and related coverage programs. The role addresses the intersection of privacy law with payment and insurance obligations, supports commercial contract negotiations, and helps embed privacy requirements into products and processes early in their lifecycle. The position partners with Payments and Insurance Legal, Privacy Management, Privacy Operations, compliance teams, regional product privacy counsel, and other stakeholders. It also advises on global privacy compliance requirements, data governance, and data lifecycle management. The position is US remote eligible; the employee must reside in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity and may occasionally work from an Airbnb office or attend offsites as agreed with their manager.

Requirements

At least 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.
Ability to advise on data minimization, legal basis, and transparency requirements for complex financial and insurance product features.
Ability to influence product, payments, legal, and compliance stakeholders without formal authority.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex regulatory intersections into clear, actionable product guidance.
Comfort managing a broad global scope across two distinct product verticals simultaneously.
Adaptability, collaboration, sound judgment, and the ability to handle ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities.
Commitment to ethics, integrity, diversity, and belonging.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with insurance data regulatory requirements and how they intersect with global privacy law across key markets.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary privacy legal advisor for global Payments and Insurance processes and products.
Advise on privacy implications of payment processing, payouts, financial product features, and fraud prevention systems across markets.
Advise on privacy legal aspects of Airbnb’s Insurance products, including AirCover, Host Protection Insurance, and related coverage programs.
Advise on the intersection of global privacy laws with payments and insurance obligations, including PCI-DSS adjacencies, U.S. state and national financial privacy laws, international payment data requirements, and insurance regulation.
Work closely with Payments Legal, Payments Compliance, Insurance Legal, and regional counsel as needed.
Advise Commercial Legal in negotiating contracts with payment processors and insurance providers.
Influence Payments and Insurance Legal and Privacy Management teams to identify and articulate privacy legal risks, requirements, and tradeoffs early in the product lifecycle.
Partner with the Lead Counsel, Product Privacy, Privacy Managers, Payments and Insurance Legal, compliance teams, and regional product privacy counsel to align privacy guidance across geographies and support localized compliance.
Monitor and advise on privacy legal and regulatory requirements related to payments and insurance data, and support associated compliance strategies.
Advise the Privacy Operations team on implementing global privacy compliance requirements for data governance and data lifecycle management projects.