Senior Compliance Lead, EMEA

The role

You will own the platform regulatory compliance program across EMEA. You will translate obligations into operating processes, reporting methodologies, or product changes while advising Legal, Policy, and Product leadership.

What you will do

• Own the EMEA compliance portfolio.
• Establish operating processes and documentation to sustain obligations at scale.
• Report and monitor status and risk.
• Deliver regulatory reporting and submissions.
• Own the annual and ad hoc reporting calendar end to end.
• Identify new and changing obligations early.
• Evaluate readiness against obligations and recommend required measures.
• Define product, engineering, and data requirements to meet obligations at scale.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap and validate outcomes.
• Lead and coach high-performing, diverse teams.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in regulatory compliance, compliance program management, or regulatory operations
• Proven track record owning a multi-jurisdiction, cross-functional compliance program end to end
• Direct experience across the Digital Services Act and the UK Online Safety Act
• Hands-on experience with a recurring regulator-facing reporting cycle and relationship management
• Track record partnering with Product and Engineering to deliver regulatory requirements into live products
• Data fluency to define, own, and defend a reporting methodology to auditors and regulators
• Familiarity with regulatory technology and automation tools
• Ability to operate with a strategic lens
• Excellent communicator and negotiator
• Strong analytical skills and an ability to design operational structures
• Proven leadership growing and coaching high-performing, diverse teams

Nice to have

• experience in a technology platform or another highly regulated industry

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.