Senior Counsel, Employment

Airbnb

Dublin, Ireland or London, UK

The Difference You Will Make:

Airbnb is seeking a bright, talented Senior Employment Counsel to join our growing legal team. Based in London or Dublin, you will be our second employment lawyer for EMEA, a key member of our EMEA legal team of 40 and report to our Lead Employment Counsel for EMEA, based in London.

You must have excellent judgment in balancing legal risks with business strategy and a proven ability to learn new areas of law and function independently in a demanding fast-paced environment. We’re looking for a highly adaptable and collaborative person who can handle ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities with flexibility, patience, and poise.

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.

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