Airbnb Senior Paralegal APAC 

Australia 

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The Difference You Will Make:

This role is based in Australia (WA, ACT, NSW, SA, Victoria, Queensland)

Programme Management

• Programme manage key initiatives including regulatory compliance projects, regulatory inquiries/investigations and other major key programmes.
• Coordinate legal work streams within APAC Legal and serve as the central node to other cross functional stakeholders for key projects.
• Prepare the necessary documentation to comply with new regulatory requirements, including registration documentation.

Consumer Disputes & Regulatory Investigations

• Undertake investigation or coordinate with other teams to investigate or provide necessary data analytics.
• Work closely with the Community Support team (i.e. customer service) to track and forecast cases.
• Effectively manage the dockets for the consumer claim / small claims tribunals in the region.
• Coordinate legal requests with other cross functional teams.

Other Areas

• Undertake legal research.
• Monitor developments in new laws and regulations.
• Work with the Legal Operations team to create the knowledge management strategy and architecture.
• Provide ad-hoc support to the APAC Legal team.
• Actively champion Airbnb’s mission, ethics and integrity.
• Support Airbnb’s commitment to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace, free of discrimination and harassment.

Your Expertise:

• Minimum 10 years’ relevant paralegal experience with law firms and MNCs, preferably in the tech / digital space.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organised and able to track multiple workstreams in a complex matrixed environment.
• Process driven and able to develop, implement, and manage processes and workflows.
• Relational and highly collaborative with excellent communication and listening skills.
• Adaptive and able to master internal tooling, including developing training and processes to enable efficient use of tools.
• Able to identify areas of opportunity to improve efficiency and team cohesion, and take action to achieve results.
• Self-starting, driven and able to work autonomously while prioritizing competing tasks in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
• Flexibility and willingness to work with all levels of the organization, and to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
• Intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, 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.
• Empathetic, caring and humble.
• Adaptable individual possessing high integrity, excellent judgment, a sense of humour and a love for fun and adventure.
• International travel may be required.