Senior Privacy Manager, Engagement

The Community You Will Join: 

Creating a world where anyone can truly belong requires a foundation of trust grounded in responsible business practices and consistent expectations of host and guest behavior. The Privacy team is committed to defining our policies and standards and ensuring implementation through communication, product features, workflows and tools, and taking actions when users violate our policies and community standards.

Our Privacy team is entrusted with implementing and maintaining a world-class privacy program. This includes helping to deliver a respected and trusted experience to the Airbnb community as well as ensure compliance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.

The Difference You Will Make:

Airbnb is a vision and mission driven company. The Senior Privacy Manager plays a key role in advancing our privacy and compliance culture. This right candidate is passionate about responsible data use and driving organizational awareness of privacy best practices and benefits. Key responsibilities in this role include executing Airbnb’s privacy corporate engagement strategy, ensuring alignment with legal requirements (i.e., DSA, AI Act, GDPR and emerging AI laws) and technological advances such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Senior Privacy Manager collaborates across teams to develop and deliver privacy and AI related curriculum, empowering employees with knowledge they need to maintain compliance and build privacy minded products. This role leads Airbnb’s Privacy Champions program, fostering engagement and advocacy throughout the organization. Through strategic communication, education and stakeholder collaboration, this role promotes a strong culture of privacy, ensuring awareness and adherence to Airbnb values, policies, regulations and industry best practices.

A Typical Day: 

As a key member of the Privacy team, you will partner with other privacy professionals across the company to:

• Develop and execute corporate engagement, training and communication strategies to promote privacy awareness and compliance across Airbnb.
• Work with key partners, such as legal, to stay informed of evolving privacy laws and AI regulations (i.e., DSA, GDPR, EU AI Act) and partner with Privacy experts to translate them into language that target audiences can relate to, and connect them to the target audience’s job and functions. 
• Partner across Airbnb cross functional teams to design and deliver privacy and AI related curriculum, ensuring employees are well equipped to navigate challenges. 
• Foster a culture of privacy and data protection by driving awareness initiatives, creating educational materials and developing training programs. 
• Create and lead a program and community of Privacy Champions, utilizing a network of subject matter experts to discuss with and educate them on privacy concepts and risks, and help them become privacy evangelists that foster a privacy by design approach in their jobs, and work to align on mitigation strategies to ensure compliance. 
• Manage Privacy Program training and materials, and regularly refresh content based on regulatory requirements or organizational needs.

Your Expertise:

• 3-5 years of experience in privacy, compliance, corporate training, communications or stakeholder engagement, preferably in a global B2C tech company. 
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with experience working with cross-functional teams across multiple time zones. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create engaging training materials and drive awareness initiatives.
• Ability to translate complex privacy regulations and AI policies into accessible concepts for diverse stakeholders. 
• Experience developing and executing corporate training programs or engagement strategies that align with legal and business requirements.
• Proven ability to build and maintain a company-wide program by developing relationships and training new internal privacy evangelists, fostering a culture of compliance and data protection. 
• Strong time management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives and drive alignment across teams. 

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list  If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. 

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

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

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

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