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Senior Legal Executive, Privacy & Compliance

The successful candidate will primarily provide privacy support, while also supporting legal, compliance, and AI governance matters for business and operational functions in Singapore and other APAC region including:

What you will be doing

• Conducting privacy impact assessment and provide solutions for products/services/activities from regional privacy regulatory perspective, and promote and maintain privacy management framework in regions

• Advising and counselling on various privacy, legal, compliance and AI governance matters of Sony’s businesses

• Drafting, vetting and negotiating a varied range of legal, commercial and corporate documents, as well as reviewing and advising on the company’s rights and liabilities under existing commercial and corporate agreements

• Assessing compliance risks and supporting regional compliance activities to implement Sony’s compliance policies and procedures, compliance training and ethics messaging, compliance reviews and audits, and internal investigations

• Assisting in legal disputes and governance matters and procedures, liaising with, and managing external lawyers

• Supporting company secretary matters

• Liaising with Sony's legal colleagues in Tokyo and other countries for region-wise or global matters

What you should have

• LLB (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and/or a recognized university in a common Asia Pacific law jurisdiction

• Legal knowledge about privacy, commercial, consumer and AI laws in Singapore and/or other Asia Pacific countries

• Expertise in applying legal frameworks to electronics hardware, software, data and retail business

• Minimum 5 years’ post qualification experience in general corporate / commercial work

• Minimum 3 years’ post qualification experience in privacy work, including conducting privacy impact assessments, drafting privacy-related documentation such as privacy policies, privacy notices, and data processing agreements, and implementing new privacy regulations in-house in a corporation, preferably in the information technology context. Experience in GDPR compliance is an advantage

• Good command of written and spoken English

• Data protection certifications: CIPP, CIPM (advantageous)

What will help you succeed

• Conscientious, meticulous and analytical with good interpersonal and communication skill

• Confident, resourceful, dynamic and proactive disposition

• Facilitate across functions and business units with good understanding of business directions while having a facilitative and commercial mindset

• Experiences of working in/w different cultures would be advantageous