# Associate Counsel, IP & Open Source

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/airbnb/jobs/7735274
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_8e3f40fd-aa2

## Description

We are seeking a highly qualified Associate Counsel to join our Commercial & Technology Legal Team with a focus on intellectual property and open source. As an Associate Counsel, you will provide day-to-day legal support on intellectual property and open source matters that shape how Airbnb builds, uses, and shares technology.

Your responsibilities will include providing practical legal advice on a wide range of IP matters for data science, engineering, and business teams, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating IP-related terms in commercial and intercompany agreements, and supporting the open source program by providing legal review and pragmatic guidance on licensing, compliance, and contribution practices.

You will also partner with cross-functional stakeholders to improve open source policies and workflows, advise on open source governance topics such as usage and contributing, owning and releasing, and permissions and access, and review and advise on external-facing Tech Brand materials.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have a J.D. degree and active membership in good standing in one or more U.S. jurisdictions, at least three years of relevant legal experience, and working knowledge of intellectual property law, including copyright, trademark, and patent fundamentals.

You will also need to have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex legal issues into clear guidance for non-lawyers at all levels, and proven ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously, prioritize effectively, and drive issues to resolution with high ownership.

## Skills

### Required
- Intellectual Property Law
- Open Source Licensing
- Commercial and Intercompany Agreements
- Data Science
- Engineering

### Nice to have
- Common Open Source Licenses
- Compliance Workflows
- Marketing and Advertising Law
- Sponsored Research Agreements