Senior Legal Counsel, Booking.com
Fintech Partnerships and New Products
Leading travel accommodation and experiences marketplace
Open for applications
Leading travel accommodation and experiences marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Booking.com's mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. They do so by offering a platform that connects every part of a trip – from a great place to stay to getting there, getting around, seeing the sights and sampling local life.
Role
Who you are
- Knowledge of and demonstrable experience of compliance with regulations, ideally, Payments and Fintech, although Financial Services, or Privacy, or other rapidly evolving and developing regulatory contexts can assist
- Innovative: the ability to meet complex challenges with innovative solutions that will apply successfully across multiple practice areas and jurisdictions
- Ability to empathise with the regulatory expectations of regulators, review output and communicate with fluidity and precision in dealings with regulators
- Curiosity about and interest in exploring legal technologies and tech-enabled efficiencies; experience with multiple legal tech solutions is a plus
- Expertise in data presentation in regulatory contexts
- Very strong organizational and project management skills. Capable of handling multiple projects/initiatives simultaneously and executing to completion
- A natural problem-solver and strategic thinker, comfortable with ambiguity and able to bring structure to challenging situations
- Someone who is always looking for opportunities to drive efficiency through appropriate use of the right technologies
- Strong communication skills, particularly clear and concise written communication
- A natural at building consensus and working with multiple stakeholders to drive projects to completion
- Aligning with Booking.com’s Values (Think Customer First, Succeed Together, Own It, Learn Forever, Do the Right Thing)
- Being curious, flexible, and a creative and pragmatic problem solver
- Confident yet collaborative
- Ability to influence stakeholders across all levels within the organisation
- Being proactive, resilient and having the drive to get things done
- Having sound judgement and the ability to see the big picture and simultaneously appreciate the details necessary to operationalise the strategy
- Having the courage to take positions and make tough judgment calls
- Being a team player, self aware and a good listener - a diverse group will always find the best solution!
- Ability to move with agility, prioritise workloads and meet deadlines
- Forward thinking with an interest in emerging issues in legal and policy
What the job involves
- Booking.com is currently looking for a Senior Legal Counsel - Fintech Partnerships and New Products to join our Product & Fintech Legal Team
- As Legal Counsel, the successful candidate will support the negotiation and drafting of critical third party payment service provider contracts, as well as contribute to the commercial strategy that supports the Fintech ambitions and also facilitates and enables broader goals, across a spectrum of travel-related services, triggering regulatory implications including Payment Services Directive in the EU, FX, scheme rules and other equivalent global payment and financial services regulations
- Fintech is a key component of Booking.com’s long-term and short-term high-impact strategy, to create a global travel experience marketplace, enabling more dynamic choices for travellers furthering the company priorities
- As Senior Legal Counsel - Fintech Partnerships and New Products, your responsibilities will be:
- Supporting the negotiation and drafting of critical third party payment service provider contracts, ensuring compliance with laws, regulations and card scheme requirements and optimising for commercial outcomes whilst protecting the company from foreseeable risks and consequences
- Procuring and interpreting legal advice to the Fintech business including on payment regulatory strategy, new fintech products and partnership models), from external counsel and internal subject matter experts
- Coordinating legal support across different specialisms and areas (including Consumer, Regulatory DMA/DSA, Data Protection, Compliance)
- Analysing precedents/case law and proposed existing laws and regulations that may impact the new Fintech products and their growth and facilitate the implementation of any regulatory requirements
- Liaise with Fintech Partnerships and New Fintech Product owners to support queries and help coordinate requests for input and legal advice for their various initiatives that are generated by our internal risk assessment processes
- Carrying out other tasks as required to enhance the effectiveness of the Product & Fintech legal team
Our take
Booking.com has established itself as a leading digital travel company. The company reaps the benefits of its status in the market and is currently in a stronger position than its up-and-coming competitors such as Expedia, Trivago and Trip.com. Airbnb represents the sharing economy and acts as a disruptive force in this market but still has ways to go to compete with Booking.com.
In recent years, there has been considerable growth in the number of travellers wishing to travel more sustainably. Booking.com is well positioned to attract these consumers, having introduced a Travel Sustainable badge on their platform which over 100,000 properties have achieved for their sustainability efforts.
The company was originally founded with a core focus on hotels, and the platform now offers more than 28 million accommodation listings. They have also expanded into different services, including flights, car rentals, and attractions.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
52% female employees
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Headspace Subscription
- Anniversary Leave
- Travel Credit
- Unlimited e-learning
- Booking Cares Volunteer Days
- Local Benefits: vary by country, but often include flex time, vacation days, health insurance, retirement savings, and much much more!
Company values
- Succeed Together - We celebrate team success, through making connections, building trust and valuing the diverse perspectives of others
- Own It - We obsess about adding value for our customer – guests, partners, colleagues – to make it easier for everyone to experience the world
- Learn Forever - We are resilient, take time to reflect, and seek to learn – from colleagues, from the outside world and from our failures
- Think Customer First - We obsess about adding value for our customer – guests, partners, colleagues – to make it easier for everyone to experience the world
- Do The Right Thing - We get the right results the right way. For each other, our communities and the world around us
Company HQ
Grachtengordel-Zuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Articles
Leadership
Glenn Fogel
(CEO, not founder)Previously Vice President at Morgan Stanley. They joined Booking Holdings in 2000 and have held several high profile and executive positions since. They are currently the President and CEO
People progressing
Responsible for all aspects of our Accommodations business unit, including Product and Tech, as well as leading Customer Service, Partner Services (commercial), Customer Insights and Product UX
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Booking.com
- We’re committed to fostering a more inclusive Booking.com experience for the millions of travellers, partners and communities around the world who use our platform every day. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations
- Directly linked to our mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world, Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging and Wellbeing (IDBW) have been a core part of our company culture since day one. Creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome and able to do their best work is no easy job. It’s one that evolves over time and will never officially be ‘done’. But that’s ok, because it’s both highly rewarding and vitally important.
- Our ambition is to achieve gender parity (45-55%) in all units and at all levels of our organisation
- To give back to the places that have given us so much, we created Booking Cares – an employee volunteer programme that empowers our workforce to drive inclusion, wellbeing, and sustainability via volunteering, donations, and more – all during working hours. Since the programme began in 2014, over 172,000 work hours have been donated, by almost 6,000 employees, across more than 2,100 projects worldwide.
- B.Champion is our learning and development program for women who want to prepare for the next step in their career. During the six-month program, participants are grouped together in a supportive community cohort, are paired with a senior-level mentor from Booking.com and follow a structured personal development program.
- Every year we celebrate the achievements of inspiring colleagues at Booking.com and give them a platform for recognition: the Playmaker & Inclusionist Awards. The awards seek to recognize colleagues who empower and inspire others and who have done much to promote the mission of Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, and Wellbeing.
- Booking.com was recently ranked #3 in the Financial Times’ 2021 Diversity Leaders list of European employers, and we couldn’t be more proud. It’s a great recognition for our colleagues around the world, who effortlessly work to create a welcoming and open environment in which people can connect and learn from each other.
- Driven by our employees with the support of the Booking.com IDBW team, our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are a driving force in creating the most open, welcoming and empowering work environment possible. Backed by members and allies, our ERGs not only foster inclusion, but drive our business goals and product evolution as well.
Share this job
View 18 more jobs at Booking.com