The focus of this role is to drive progress forward, facilitate decision-making, and help the Company succeed in meeting our legal requirements in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region with minimal surprises and disruption.
Day-to-day involves bringing legal and policy teams together to analyze, interpret, and communicate legal requirements, and ensuring that our Privacy Areas develop comprehensive response strategies that will meet regulatory requirements.
This is a highly visible role that requires strategic leadership, excellent stakeholder management, and operational excellence. This role will work with senior leadership including executives at the company, on some of the biggest priorities for the company.
The successful candidate thrives in an ambiguous, cross-functional environment and wants to solve big, hard problems more than anything else. They should be able to learn a new regulation or body of regulations extremely quickly and excel in knowing how to lead a cross-functional team and bring out views from all disciplines in order to inform one strategic plan.
This role requires a keen interest in and aptitude for understanding how the global regulatory environment affects how our platforms are designed, and the ability to dive deep into the connection between legal requirements, policy pressures, and technical features in order to educate external and internal parties and enable the right decision making. Similarly, the right candidate will be intellectually curious and build familiarity and fluency with legal requirements in the areas of privacy, data protection, and security.
Responsibilities
- Iterate on the design and operate the Company’s program for any new or existing regulations in APAC, including understanding the regulation, identifying key requirements that point to investment or change in current Meta practices/products and operationalize our response to meet those requirements.
- Help scale the capacity of the Regulatory Readiness team through process optimization, t-shirt sizing, and upskilling.
- Ensure execution is managed in a prioritized manner to balance the near term regulatory requirement(s) execution and long term privacy roadmap.
- Partner with the cross-functional teams from product, legal and policy functions through response plan, including holding teams accountable for inputs and aligning where there are competing priorities and strategies from different cross-functional partners.
- Drive progress on priority work-streams, build decision-making frameworks and deliverables.
- Prepare communication materials for multiple audiences including leadership from privacy, legal and policy teams.
- Build and maintain an inventory of all global privacy regulations and a map of our compliance and product positions vis-a-vis those regulations.
- Build a long term view on global privacy regulations and distill them into actionable privacy frameworks for the company.
- Work with legal, privacy and policy leadership teams to ensure the cross-company work on privacy includes the key priorities coming from global regulations.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8-10+ years of work experience in law, policy, strategy, management consulting, business operations, program management, or other operational discipline
- Experience managing a portfolio of regulations and developing response strategies
- Experience working directly with management as well as people at all levels
- Experience simplifying complex concepts and leading communications with stakeholders
- Experience leading high-stakes, complex program management initiatives
- Excels at building consensus, resolving dependencies, and driving alignment across broad sets of related teams
- Experience managing multiple tasks under timelines and shifting priorities
Preferred Qualifications
- Facility with an in-region language, to communicate with regulators in the APAC region
- Law Degree, MBA, or other advanced degree
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