Airbnb Senior Counsel Employment 

Ireland, Dublin 

433066423

A Typical Day

• Providing effective, business-focused, day-to-day advice to a wide range of internal stakeholders, including our Talent, Employee Relations, Recruiting, Rewards, Contingent Workforce, and Mobility teams on a broad range of issues relating to employment law across the EMEA region.

• Providing advice on areas such as: immigration, investigations, grievances, disciplinary processes, recruitment, contingent workforce issues, employee misclassification, outsourcing, M&A support, gender pay gap reporting, employee exits, reorganisations, diversity and belonging initiatives, GDPR, collective issues, contractual issues, whistleblowing, operational support, executive contracts and litigation.

• 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.

• Effectively collaborating with colleagues around the world including employment counsel and functional Talent partners in the US, as well as country lawyers, litigation, tax, privacy, and comms colleagues in EMEA.

• Proactively working to draft, review and revise internal processes, policies and workflows.

• Developing and maintaining playbooks and scalable legal resources for Talent stakeholders.

• Working closely with outside counsel where appropriate and supervising the provision of cost-effective, business-orientated legal advice.

• Keeping up-to-date on relevant laws impacting employee issues affecting Airbnb’s businesses to ensure an ongoing ability to provide excellent legal advice.

• European travel and some travel to the US is required from time to time.

Your Expertise

• We expect the successful candidate to have had at least 6 years’ PQE with relevant employment law experience advising on employment law matters in the UK and/or Ireland in a law firm, government agency, and/or in-house legal department.

• Strong academic record and demonstrated record of success as a lawyer.

• Experience of advising on employment law issues across EMEA is a huge plus.

• Qualified in the UK, Ireland or another EU law jurisdiction.

• Fluency in English (written and oral) is a must. Fluency in French, German, Spanish, or Italian is a plus.

The successful candidate should also have

• An empathetic and ethical approach, good judgment, well-honed organizational and analytical skills, strong oral and written communication skills, and a keen sense of humor (as well as of justice).

• Intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness coupled with being adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity and risk, and excited by dynamic change.

• Comfort and confidence working on sensitive issues.

• A strong ability to inspire trust, forge relationships quickly, and earn the confidence and cooperation of business stakeholders.

• An ability to work both collaboratively and autonomously.

• Experience working largely unsupervised and confidence to prioritize/ de-prioritize competing tasks and stakeholders in a fast-paced, challenging environment.

• A desire to progress professionally in a fast moving organisation.

• Direct client counseling experience.