Senior Counsel, Product Privacy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the main legal advisor for privacy regarding Payments and Insurance processes and products on a global scale.

• Provide guidance on privacy considerations related to payment processing, payouts, features of financial products, fraud prevention systems, and Airbnb Insurance offerings.

• Counsel on the convergence of privacy law with payments, insurance, PCI-DSS-related issues, financial privacy regulations, international payment data standards, and insurance laws.

• Support the Commercial Legal team in negotiating agreements with payment processors and insurance providers.

• Identify and communicate privacy legal risks, requirements, and trade-offs early in the product development process.

• Collaborate with Product Privacy, Privacy Managers, Payments and Insurance Legal, compliance teams, and regional product privacy advisors.

• Keep track of and provide guidance on privacy legal and regulatory mandates and related compliance strategies.

• Advise Privacy Operations on global privacy adherence, data governance, and data lifecycle management initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in privacy law, particularly in financial data privacy, payments, or related regulatory environments.

• Proven experience in advising on global payments or financial services data practices within a B2C or platform context.

• Experience collaborating across legal, compliance, and commercial functions in a matrix organization.

• Solid understanding of the intersection between privacy law and financial data regulation, including CCPA, GLBA, PCI-DSS-related issues, and equivalent international frameworks.

• Knowledge of insurance data regulatory requirements and how they intersect with global privacy laws in major markets.

• Capability to advise on data minimization, legal foundations, and transparency needs for intricate financial and insurance product features.

• Ability to influence product, payments, legal, and compliance stakeholders without formal authority.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; adept at distilling complex regulatory intersections into clear, actionable product guidance.

• Comfortable managing a broad, global scope across two distinct product verticals at the same time.

• Must reside in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Eligibility for equity.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Employee Travel Credits.

• Option for a remote work arrangement.

• Occasional work at an Airbnb office or participation in offsite events, as agreed upon with the manager.

• Reasonable accommodations available throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.