Senior Counsel, APAC Employment

Job Description

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join

Airbnb's Legal team embodies the company's innovative, forward-thinking spirit. At the frontier of the sharing economy, Airbnb is breaking new ground in matters of policy, law, and government relations. Where some see obstacles, we see the opportunity to find creative, practical solutions, right at the cutting edge. Our adventurous, fast-moving legal team is committed to building a team of talented, collaborative and self-motivated legal professionals across the globe who believe in Airbnb's mission and leading as a 21st century company.

The Difference You Will Make

We're looking for a highly adaptable and collaborative employment and ethics attorney who can handle ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities with flexibility, patience, and poise. You must have excellent judgment in both assessing legal risks and business strategy, and a proven ability to lead in a complex and fast-paced environment. The role is based in India and will lead employment legal and ethics across Asia Pacific region.

A Typical Day

- Provide legal and strategic advice and counsel to internal clients and legal colleagues on a range of regional employment issues, including prevention of harassment and discrimination, anti-bribery and corruption, and ethics issues.
- Delivering clear, effective and practical legal advice to the Employee Experience team, including queries relating to employment laws, internal policies and workflow.
- Act as the presiding officer or a member of the Internal Complaints Committee in India constituted to redress concerns of sexual harassment at workplace.
- Independently support key Talent and Business partners on complex and challenging employment issues.
- Support the creation & management of our employment and compliance policies.
- Manage high-visibility, high-stakes employment & compliance issues, disputes, and investigations.
- Become a trusted and collaboration-oriented partner across Employee Experience functions in the Asia Pacific region.
- Support Airbnb's commitment to building and maintaining a diverse workplace, free of discrimination and harassment.
- Drive cross-functional projects to improve our regional employment compliance.
- Effectively collaborate with regional and global colleagues, whether in APAC or globally, to provide globally aligned legal advice that appropriately balances domestic and global perspectives and needs.
- Keeping up to date with new developments in employment legislations

Your Expertise

- Possesses a bachelor of law or its equivalent, and has qualified to practice in a major jurisdiction.
- At least 12 years of relevant experience post qualification.
- Fluency (reading/writing/speaking) in English is essential.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
- Consistently delivers creative, thoughtful and business-oriented results that appropriately balance growth and risk in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment.
- Ability to spot key risks, analyse and practically assess risk, and provide actionable recommendations.
- Intellectually curious, open-minded, adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity and risk, 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.
- Self-starter, driven and able to work autonomously while prioritizing competing tasks in a fast-paced, challenging environment.
- Empathetic, caring and humble.
- Entrepreneurial and business-orientated.
- Adaptable individual possessing high integrity and excellent judgment.
- International travel may be required.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging

We are committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, enabling us to attract creatively-led people and develop the best products, services, and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.