Associate Counsel, Innovation and Thought Leadership

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $157k - $185k / year

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Airbnb

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

B2C • eCommerce • Hospitality

Airbnb is a global online marketplace that connects people looking for accommodation with hosts offering unique and diverse lodging options, often in residential properties. Users can book spaces ranging from one-bedroom apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Airbnb also offers experiences, allowing guests to book activities hosted by locals, providing an authentic travel experience.

📋 Description

• Provide pragmatic guidance on open source licensing, compliance, and contribution practices (inbound use and outbound releases), including where open source meets AI, such as model and dataset licenses. • Work with Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Brand, and other teams to improve open source policies and workflows. • Advise on open source governance topics such as: • Usage & Contributing: internal use of third-party open source, “copyleft” risks, contributing to external projects, and CLA review. • Owning & Releasing: when and how Airbnb code may be open sourced, quality and maintenance expectations, community and code-of-conduct considerations, and project sunsetting. • Review external facing material (e.g., academic papers and articles, conference talks and decks, developer and community programs, technology-related blog and social posts) before publication, flagging IP, confidentiality and trade secrets, claims substantiation, third-party rights and permissions, and open source-adjacent messaging. • Negotiate research and data agreements with public and private universities, covering sponsored research, publication rights, IP ownership, and commercial-use rights. • Draft and review IP and licensing terms in intercompany and other commercial agreements. • Advise senior leaders on what IP to release publicly and what to keep internal, review employee outside-work requests for IP and conflict concerns, and assess IP-contamination risk. • Build and maintain the playbooks, templates, and training that help other lawyers and business partners handle common IP and open source questions on their own. • Provide practical legal advice on a wide range of IP matters for data science, engineering, and business teams, including licensing issues tied to product development, tooling, and infrastructure. • Partner with Marketing, Comms, and colleagues in Legal, and liaise with international colleagues, to keep guidance consistent across brand, marketing, and technology narratives and across regions.

🎯 Requirements

• At least three years as an attorney at a law firm, in government, or in-house, including meaningful work in technology transactions and advising technical teams. • Working knowledge of copyright, trademark, and patent fundamentals and how they apply in technology and product contexts. • Experience drafting and negotiating IP and licensing provisions across a variety of agreements. • Grounding in open source licensing and compliance. • Familiarity with AI licensing, particularly where it intersects with open source. • Strong analytical and risk-framing skills, with practical cost/benefit judgment in a fast-moving environment. • Clear written and verbal communication, including translating complex legal issues for non-lawyers. • Able to manage multiple matters, prioritize, and drive them to resolution with high ownership. • Sound judgment on what to handle independently and when to escalate. • Good sense of humor, disdain for drama, and desire to get things done. • Passion for travel and deep appreciation for the Airbnb community. • Licensed attorney in good standing of the bar of at least one U.S. state or territory.

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses • Equity • Employee Travel Credits