Legal Intern General Counsel jobs at Airbnb

A typical day:

You will work with members of the legal team, including other interns, and folks from across the organization to support a variety of legal functions, which may include: Intellectual Property, Corporate, Commercial, Marketing, Product, Privacy, Payments, Litigation, Regulatory/Policy, Insurance, and Employment. You’ll get exposure to each of these functional areas, dedicated training from subject matter experts, and will have opportunities to work on legal questions for multiple of these teams.

As an intern, you’ll be expected to:

• Collaborate with team members to achieve project milestones
• Complete projects crossing different areas of law, balancing priorities and deadlines, including a final project that you’ll share with the full legal team
• Communicate with the legal team and other stakeholders to provide project updates and share your work
• Proactively seek and provide feedback throughout the internship
• Actively participate in and contribute to the legal and broader Airbnb community, like pro bono efforts

Important Note:

Your expertise:

law students (Juris Doctorate) enrolled full-time at a nationally-accredited law schoolwith the following interests and skills:

• Strong interest in learning about in-house legal practice and about multiple practice areas
• Great verbal and written communication skills and interest in honing new communication skills
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Adaptable and able to adjust plans and manage changes effectively
• Strong interpersonal skills and interest in initiating and building relationships and collaborating with teams within and outside of Legal
• Passion for the Airbnb mission; experience with the platform is a plus!
• Work authorization for employment in the United States is required (CPT/OPT is accepted) - visa sponsorship is unavailable

How to apply:

In addition to your resume, you are required to submit the following in your application:

• A cover letter that answers the following questions:
  • (1) Which Airbnb Core Value(s) most resonates with you?
  • (2) What do you hope to gain from this internship?
  • (3) Why would you be a great addition to the Airbnb Legal team?
• A writing sample that is no more than 3-5 pages long.

Offices: United States

A typical day:

As an intern, you’ll be expected to:

• Collaborate with multiple team members to achieve project milestones
• Communicate with the Legal team and other stakeholders to provide project updates
• Proactively seek and provide feedback throughout the internship
• Actively participate in, and contribute to, the Legal and broader Airbnb community

Your expertise:

This opportunity is forsecond-year (2L) or third-year (3L) students enrolled full-time at a nationally-accredited law schoolwith the following background:

• Completed privacy coursework or has previous experience working in the privacy space
• Preference for candidates who hold a CIPP certification
• Strong interest in learning about in-house legal practice, specifically in privacy law
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, detail-oriented, and organized
• Comfortable reaching out and initiating communication with various team members
• Strong interpersonal skills and interest in building relationships and collaborating with teams within and outside of Legal
• Adaptable and able to adjust plans and manage changes effectively
• Able to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong analytical and research skills, with the ability to review and distill information from multiple sources into concise and pertinent legal memoranda
• Work authorization for employment in the United States is required (CPT/OPT is accepted) - visa sponsorship is unavailable

How to apply:

As part of your application package, you’ll be asked to submit the following a resume and a cover letter that addresses the following:

• how one or more Airbnb Core Values resonates with you,
• why you are interested in privacy law,
• what positive significant impact this internship will provide for you, and
• how your background meets the expertise requirements above.

Sunday, January 11th at 11:59 pm PST

How we’ll take care of you:

Our job titles may span more than one career or degree level. This role may also be eligible for benefits and Employee Travel Credits.

USD
Pay rate:$48 per hour

Offices: United States

A typical day:

As an intern, you’ll be expected to:

• Collaborate with multiple team members to achieve project milestones
• Communicate with the Legal team and other stakeholders to provide project updates
• Proactively seek and provide feedback throughout the internship
• Actively participate in, and contribute to, the Legal and broader Airbnb community

Your expertise:

This opportunity is forsecond-year (2L) or third-year (3L) students enrolled full-time at a nationally-accredited law schoolwith the following background:

• At least one of the following: completed privacy coursework OR earned a CIPP certification certification OR have previous experience within the privacy space
• Strong interest in learning about in-house legal practice, specifically in privacy law
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, detail-oriented, and organized
• Comfortable reaching out and initiating communication with various team members
• Strong interpersonal skills and interest in building relationships and collaborating with teams within and outside of Legal
• Adaptable and able to adjust plans and manage changes effectively
• Able to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong analytical and research skills, with the ability to review and distill information from multiple sources into concise and pertinent legal memoranda
• Work authorization for employment in the United States is required (CPT/OPT is accepted) - visa sponsorship is unavailable

How to apply:

As part of your application package, you’ll be asked to submit the following: (1) a resume, (2) unofficial transcripts showing privacy coursework or CIPP certification documentation, and (3) a cover letter that addresses the following:

• how one or more Airbnb Core Values resonates with you,
• why you are interested in privacy law,
• what positive significant impact this internship will provide for you, and
• how your background meets the expertise requirements above.

How we’ll take care of you:

Our job titles may span more than one career or degree level. This role may also be eligible for benefits and Employee Travel Credits.

USD
Pay rate:$48 per hour

Offices: United States

The Difference You Will Make:

For this role, we’re seeking an AI expert to join the AirCover Data Science team, and have a direct opportunity to contribute, influence, and lead by designing scalable scientific solutions for problems like:

• Develop accurate, agile, and explainable fraud detection systems to guard platform quality, and protect guests and hosts
• Detect various intents across various entry points with large scale unstructured data using NLP methods
• Collect evidence from images and receipts to gauge monetary value of the request leveraging computer vision
• Optimize presentation of AirCover products through designing thoughtful user segmentation and personalization
• Route high-complexity issues to agents with personalized strategy, incorporating user history and agent performance
• Summarize customer journey and conversations with foundational or fine tuned large language models (LLM) to assist operation agents

A Typical Day:

• Identify high impact business opportunities through data exploration and model prototype, translate business problem into scientific formulations
• Work collaboratively with cross functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations and research, to refine requirements for machine learning models, drive scientific decisions, and quantify impact
• Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate machine learning models on paved path, including both batch and real-time use cases, structured and unstructured data
• Regularly present work internally at monthly meetings to technical, engineering and product stakeholders to iterate and generate excitement on roadmap progress
• Publish externally and engage with the scientific community to advance Airbnb’s standing

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience (e.g. ML scientist, tech lead, junior faculty) and a Master’s degree or PhD in relevant fields
• Strong fluency in Python and SQL, experience with Tensorflow, PyTorch, Airflow and data warehouse
• Deep understanding of Machine Learning lifecycle best practices (eg. training/serving, feature engineering, feature/model selection, labeling, A/B test), algorithms (eg. gradient boosted trees, neural networks/deep learning, optimization) and domains (eg. natural language processing, computer vision, personalization and recommendation, anomaly detection)
• Proficiency with LLMs and/or related AI, NLP, CV, UGC/content understanding topics including deep learning, information retrieval, or knowledge extraction. For example, BERT, GPT, LLaMA, Mistral
• Comfort to collaborate with software engineers to understand complex systems and abstracted logs, proven ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels
• Proven mix of strong intellectual curiosity with high level of pragmatism and engagement with the technical community. Publications or presentations in recognized journals/conferences is a plus

Offices: United States

A Typical Day:

• Provide legal and strategic advice and counsel to internal clients and legal colleagues on a range of global employment and ethics issues, including prevention of harassment and discrimination, compensation and benefits, performance management, reorganizations, accommodations and leaves of absence, wage and hour law, mobility, contingent workforce, conflicts of interest, and other matters involving Airbnb’s ethics policies.
• Support key Employee Experience and business partners on complex and challenging employment and ethics issues; delivering clear, practical advice that enables our business partners to achieve their objectives while mitigating legal risk and keeping the interests of all stakeholders at the forefront
• Drive and support on cross-functional projects to improve our global employment and ethics policies and practices to ensure compliance with business objectives and federal, state and local laws.
• Support execution of our compliance communications strategy.
• Manage employment issues, disputes, and internal investigations.
• Support Airbnb’s conflict of interest disclosure process, including review and approval of potential employee conflicts and gift and entertainment requests, as well as policy training
• Track Airbnb’s company compliance with new laws and regulations, specifically with regard to employment, anti-bribery and corruption and other relevant compliance topics, working closely with our public policy, and regional legal teams.
• Be a trusted and collaboration-oriented partner across Employee Experience global functions.
• Support Airbnb’s commitment to building and maintaining an inclusive and ethical workplace, free of discrimination and harassment.

Your Expertise:

• Creative, flexible and experienced attorney.
• 4-6+ years of relevant experience with a significant amount focused on employment and ethics matters.
• Strong, proven ability to work cross functionally with business partners and executives.
• Experience leading and/or advising on investigations.
• General experience working in an international and multicultural working environment with geographically dispersed team members.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and pressurized environment and to act decisively.
• Provide quick, concise, and practical legal advice consistent with Airbnb’s business objectives.
• Advise and problem-solve proactively where necessary.
• A passion for Airbnb’s mission, with a strong knowledge and interest in travel.
• A team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• In-house experience, preferably in the technology sector, preferred.
• Computer literacy with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Qualified lawyer with Bar admission in the United States.

Offices: United States

A Typical Day

• Advise and assist Airbnb’s Community Policy, Anti-Discrimination & Equity (AD&E) and Trust Quality teams in developing, operationalizing and enforcing Airbnb’s global community policies as well as anti-discrimination and trust policies and standards
• Work closely with our Product teams to implement new and updated defenses across the platform
• Support on user escalations, including analysis, and advice on an array of matters that implicate Airbnb policies and policy enforcement, and are often raised to the executive team
• Support the Trust organization in proactive defenses and reactive interventions to help keep our community safe
• Assess, manage, and provide legal advice to cross-functional stakeholders regarding global legal risks, including discrimination, disparate impact, and privacy risks, and related internal investigations
• Advise on and drive cross-functional projects with business partners, including Trust, Communications, Public Policy, Community Policy, Ant-Discrimination & Equity, Product, and Hosting teams
• Manage direct reports on the Community Trust legal team and collaborate with other leaders on the team to maximize team resources to align with business priorities and objectives
• Active championship of Airbnb’s mission, ethics and integrity
• Support of Airbnb’s commitment to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace, free of discrimination and harassment

Your Expertise

• J.D. with strong academic credentials and demonstrated record of success as a senior in-house lawyer or law firm partner
• Member of California Bar or eligible to register as Registered In-House Counsel
• Minimum 15 years of significant knowledge and experience with issues such as litigation, risk mitigation, trust and safety, civil rights and discrimination work, policy development and enforcement.
• Outstanding analytical, oral, and writing skills, including the ability to distill complex legal issues efficiently and effectively for a business audience, often in novel or ambiguous situations
• Possess a highly-developed sense of urgency in time sensitive and high-stakes matters occurring in real-time
• Demonstrated record of pragmatic, quick-thinking, business-oriented advice that properly balances both legal risk and business reward
• Highly motivated, ability to take ownership of a project from inception to completion, efficient, and organized with proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment
• Exhibit executive presence and excellent communication skills with capacity to advocate for a position while maintaining respectful, collaborative and open-minded approach
• Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning models is a plus
• Ability to lead with humility and empathy
• Passion for travel, home sharing and deep appreciation for Airbnb community
• Good sense of humor, disdain for drama, and desire to get things done

Offices: United States

A Typical Day:

As Associate General Counsel— Risk & Regulatory you will:

• Be responsible for a diverse range of litigation, regulatory, and operations matters in a wide range of practice areas and in numerous jurisdictions.
• Manage litigation and conduct regulatory investigations.
• Provide advice and counsel to various internal clients to proactively address and resolve potential disputes while providing risk mitigation advice to business clients and supporting business objectives.
• Provide advice and counsel to various legal teams and work closely with other attorneys, compliance personnel and public policy experts to help solve complex problems.
• Review and analyze legal risks for Airbnb, including on development of products and services.
• Devise processes and procedures to help support a rapidly-growing, global business.

Your Expertise:

• J.D. with a strong academic record.
• Licensed attorney with 15-20+ years of experience in a law firm as a trial attorney handling complex litigation and regulatory matters, ideally including interaction with regulators and/or policy-makers. First chair trial experience is a must.
• First chair trial experience, including managing complex documents and strategic business advice for clients.
• Demonstrated record for success strategizing, handling and managing complex litigation and regulatory matters.
• Strong litigation and regulatory investigation experience is a must and platform liability, policy and regulatory experience is desired.
• Broad base of substantive law relating to high technology companies.
• Creative, entrepreneurial, quick thinking, pragmatic business oriented advice and ability to properly balance risks and business reward; ability to craft legal solutions in novel ways is essential.
• Highly motivated, efficient, and organized; able to juggle multiple projects at a time in a fast-paced environment, both collaborating as a team and working independently
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal and ability to advocate for a position while maintaining an open-minded approach.
• Interest in expanding the scope of your practice to diverse areas of law as the legal team grows and matures.
• Passion for travel, home sharing and deep appreciation for the Airbnb community.
• Good sense of humor, disdain for drama and desire to get things done.

Offices: United States