Airbnb Senior Counsel Payments 

United Kingdom 

426952206

A Typical Day:

• Legal support on payment services, compliance, and prudential matters and maintenance of our licensed payment entities in the UK and Luxembourg
• Support on payments regulatory matters, including payments laws and regulations that apply to our payments entities
• Provide advice and guidance to the product, operations, design, and engineering teams working in Airbnb’s payment team
• Coordinating and conducting day-to-day management of corporate governance, regulatory inquiries and some litigious matters
• Drafting and reviewing inter-company and commercial agreements
• Fostering strong working relationships within the legal department and payments compliance team, senior management and business stakeholders
• Staying up-to-date and helping to keep the team advised on legal, regulatory, and policy developments relevant to payments and financial services
• Proactively working to draft, review and revise internal processes, policies and workflows
• Instructing outside counsel where appropriate and supervising the provision of cost-effective, business-oriented legal advice

Your Expertise:

• Law Degree plus professional legal qualification from UK or a Member State of the European Union
• A minimum of 8+ years of relevant experience in law firms, governmental agencies, and/or in-house legal departments
• Experience in corporate legal and financial services regulatory matters is preferred
• Detail-oriented with strong project management, organisational and analytical skills
• High level of personal integrity, professionalism, ability to work independently, flexibly and creatively, with a sense of humour and desire to learn and grow
• Fluent in English, other European language(s) a plus