Senior Counsel, Apac Commercial

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 are in search of a Senior Counsel to cover Commercial and Corporate Legal work across Asia-Pacific (APAC). This role reports to the Lead Counsel, APAC, and serves as legal partner to many other teams outside Legal. Collaboration will be a key attribute as this role will work very closely with the other members of the organisation both in the region and globally. This role may be based in India or Singapore and is not eligible for relocation support.

**A Typical Day**:
**Commercial Legal**
- Draft, review, and negotiate complex technology and service-level agreements
- Provide strategic advice on commercial transactions, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and alignment with business objectives.
- Manage cross-border commercial matters, particularly within the Asia-Pacific region.
- Effectively collaborate with regional and global colleagues to (i) provide globally aligned legal advice that appropriately balances domestic and global perspectives and needs; and (ii) participate in global workstreams.
- Help design, implement and iterate legal team processes to keep up a high level of efficiency.

**Corporate Governance**
- Oversee corporate governance/ company secretarial obligations, including conducting board meetings, in India, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, Philippines and other APAC jurisdictions
- Develop and implement governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with corporate laws and regulations across jurisdictions.
- Provide advice to the board and senior management on governance policies, fiduciary duties, and best practices.
- Deliver clear, effective and practical legal advice to the various business functions.
- Be adept in making sensible legal risk assessments which consider practical solutions to mitigate legal risk whilst keeping business priorities at the forefront.

**Legal Tech Innovation**
- Lead the adoption and implementation of Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) tools and AI-driven legal solutions.
- Evaluate, integrate, and optimize legal technology to improve team productivity and contract management.
- Train and mentor legal teams on change management and leveraging technology to streamline operations.
- Develop and execute out-of-the-box strategies to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the legal function.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align legal operations with broader business goals.
- Active championship of Airbnb’s mission, ethics and integrity.
- Support for Airbnb’s commitment to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace, free of discrimination and harassment.

**Your Expertise**:

- Possesses a bachelor of law or its equivalent, and has qualified to practice in a major jurisdiction.
- At least 12 years’ post-qualification experience, including ideally some corporate commercial experience in practice as well as in-house and prior experience in areas such as commercial contracts and corporate governance.
- Fluency (reading/writing/speaking) in English is essential.
- Exceptional ability to draft and review commercial agreements.
- Ability to develop and execute innovative strategies to drive operational efficiency.
- 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, car