Senior Counsel, Product Privacy

The role

You will serve as the primary privacy legal advisor for Payments and Insurance processes and products globally. You will advise on the intersection of privacy law with financial and insurance obligations and support compliance strategies.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary privacy legal advisor for Payments and Insurance processes and products globally
• Advise on the intersection of privacy law and payments and insurance obligations globally
• Advise Commercial Legal in negotiating commercial contracts with payment processors and insurance providers
• Identify and articulate privacy legal risks, requirements, and tradeoffs early in the product lifecycle
• Partner with privacy managers, payments and insurance legal, and compliance teams to align guidance
• Monitor and advise on privacy legal and regulatory requirements for payments and insurance products
• Provide advice to the Privacy Operations team on data governance and data lifecycle management projects

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of privacy law experience with depth in financial data privacy, payments, or insurance-adjacent regulatory contexts
• Demonstrated experience advising on global payments or financial services data practices in a B2C or platform context
• Experience working across legal, compliance, and commercial functions in a matrixed organization
• Strong understanding of the intersection of privacy law and financial data regulation, including CCPA, GLBA, PCI-DSS adjacencies, and equivalent international frameworks
• Familiarity with insurance data regulatory requirements and how they intersect with global privacy law across key markets
• Ability to advise on data minimization, legal basis, and transparency requirements for complex financial and insurance product features
• Ability to influence across product, payments, legal, and compliance stakeholders without formal authority
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to manage a broad, global scope across two distinct product verticals simultaneously

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits

About the company

Airbnb was born in 2007 and has grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.