Job Description

Company Intro

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands Booking.com, KAYAK, priceline, agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Job Overview

You will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic, experienced, and global team of legal, compliance, and privacy professionals. You will be responsible for providing support and advice to Booking Holdings global brands and internal business teams. You must have excellent judgment in balancing legal risks with business strategy, and a proven ability to learn new areas of law and function independently in a demanding fast-paced environment. You may be challenged to creatively apply your deep legal expertise to rare and complex aspects of the law. Yes, legal smarts are required, but you also need to have a keen business sense, a strong work ethic, and a passion for customers and data protection. You must have the ability to operate independently, proactively, and cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams across the company. As we expand our offerings globally, your ideas and contributions will make an immediate impact. Were looking for a highly adaptable and collaborative person who can handle ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities with diplomacy, patience, and poise.

Responsibilities and Duties

* Implementation. Provide focused and pragmatic advice on the implementation and impact of global privacy laws and issues to brand privacy leaders, procurement, brand, marketing, and business teams

* Assessments. Coordinate with regional counsel to perform multi-jurisdictional assessments to assist with global regulatory change management

* Privacy-by-design. Provide SME support on privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default reviews, privacy impact assessments, and data protection impact assessments

* Incident response. Support security incident response team in the evaluation of, and response to data incidents

* Compliance counseling. Assist in leading and driving privacy and data protection compliance for the appropriate business and functional leaders and their teams

* Policy management. Update and maintain user friendly external privacy notices, internal privacy and data handling policies, playbooks, and other materials supporting Booking Holdings privacy program

* Strategy. Support compliance strategies for U.S. and international data privacy and personal information collection rules, regulations and standards

* Contract support. Assist in driving data protection contract terms to achieve business objectives

Qualifications

* JD and a minimum of five years of relevant experience in law firms, governmental agencies, and/or in-house legal departments. In-house experience at a multinational, consumer-facing technology company is strongly preferred

* 5 years of relevant job experience

* Strong experience with global privacy laws relevant to consumer facing technology companies

* Strong experience negotiating broad range of commercial contracts

* CIPP/US or CIPP/E, or ability and willingness to achieve one or both within one year

* Demonstrated ability to independently manage a diverse and complex workload while maintaining priorities and proactively anticipating issues

* Consistent good judgment and ability to apply legal knowledge to help create practical business solutions

* Flexibility, a positive attitude, a sense of humor, and the ability to constructively balance change in alignment with business needs

* Strong execution and project management skills, and ability to corral stakeholders from across the organization on cross-functional projects

* Excellent analytical, written and verbal skills with the ability to present information/complex legal matters clearly and concisely

* Juris Doctor and membership in good standing in at least one US state bar is required

* Self-starting, proactive, driven, adaptable person who can, with poise and patience, prioritize and manage multiple projects and recalibrate advice in view of shifting priorities, legal developments and risk tolerance

* Experience working with international teams (US, EMEA, LATAM and APAC).

* High level of integrity, professionalism, intellectual curiosity, sense of humor, and willingness to grow

* Experience distilling highly technical rules and legal jargon into understandable terms using plain English for internal clients and external-facing documentation

About BKNG

Booking Holdings is the world leader in online travel & related services. Our teams work around the clock to build and improve the technology that empowers people to more freely travel across borders, time zones, languages and cultures. At Booking Holdings, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world every day through seamless technology powered by our six major brands:

* Booking.com

* KAYAK

* priceline

* agoda

* Rentalcars.com

* OpenTable

Through the Booking Holdings brands, we help our customers reach all corners of the earth. Our ability to provide great service rests on how well we understand our diverse customer base, which is why having a diverse team is so important to us. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

EEO Statement:

Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please email reasonableaccommodation@bookingholdings.com with your request. M/F/V/D/SO