Airbnb Senior Counsel APAC Commercial & Corporate Legal 

India 

512854635

Commercial Legal

• Draft, review, and negotiate complex technology and service-level agreements
• Provide strategic advice on commercial transactions, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and alignment with business objectives.
• Manage cross-border commercial matters, particularly within the Asia-Pacific region.
• Effectively collaborate with regional and global colleagues to (i) provide globally aligned legal advice that appropriately balances domestic and global perspectives and needs; and (ii) participate in global workstreams.
• Help design, implement and iterate legal team processes to keep up a high level of efficiency.

Corporate Governance

• Oversee corporate governance/ company secretarial obligations, including conducting board meetings, in India, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, Philippines and other APAC jurisdictions
• Develop and implement governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with corporate laws and regulations across jurisdictions.
• Provide advice to the board and senior management on governance policies, fiduciary duties, and best practices.
• Deliver clear, effective and practical legal advice to the various business functions.
• Be adept in making sensible legal risk assessments which consider practical solutions to mitigate legal risk whilst keeping business priorities at the forefront.

Legal Tech Innovation

• Lead the adoption and implementation of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools and AI-driven legal solutions.
• Evaluate, integrate, and optimize legal technology to improve team productivity and contract management.
• Train and mentor legal teams on change management and leveraging technology to streamline operations.
• Develop and execute out-of-the-box strategies to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the legal function.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align legal operations with broader business goals.
• Active championship of Airbnb’s mission, ethics and integrity.
• Support for Airbnb’s commitment to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace, free of discrimination and harassment.

Your Expertise:

• Possesses a bachelor of law or its equivalent, and has qualified to practice in a major jurisdiction.
• At least 12 years’ post-qualification experience, including ideally some corporate commercial experience in practice as well as in-house and prior experience in areas such as commercial contracts and corporate governance.
• Fluency (reading/writing/speaking) in English is essential.
• Exceptional ability to draft and review commercial agreements.
• Ability to develop and execute innovative strategies to drive operational efficiency.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
• Consistently delivers creative, thoughtful and business-oriented results that appropriately balance growth and risk in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment.
• Ability to spot key risks, analyse and practically assess risk, and provide actionable recommendations.
• Intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity and risk, and excited by dynamic change.
• Organised, detail-oriented and methodical, and able to effectively manage projects, deadlines, audits and investigations, and crafting workflows, protocols and processes.
• Self-starter, driven and able to work autonomously while prioritizing competing tasks in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
• Empathetic, caring and humble.
• Entrepreneurial and business-orientated.
• Adaptable individual possessing high integrity, excellent judgment, a sense of humour and a love for fun and adventure.
• International travel may be required.

Offices: India, Singapore