About the job
Zenlayer is looking for a Regional Senior Legal Counsel to join our team! This individual will be based out of our Singapore office and will be leveraging their extensive compliance knowledge and experience to support our APAC regions. Let us know if you’re the one!
About Zenlayer:
Zenlayer is the first massively distributed edge cloud provider, operating 290+ Points of Presence across 70+ countries. With accolades including PTC “Best Networking Innovation”, “Outstanding Cloud, Data Center, or Interconnection Company”, and Inc. 5000, we enable businesses to deploy and run applications at the edge, thus reducing network latency to the end user. Zenlayer focuses on improving connections worldwide, all while nurturing a unique company culture that values service, growth, and trust. As a “Zenplayer”, you’ll be joining a community of success-driven team players that share the dream of powering a better-connected world.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Provide regional daily legal support including contract draft, contract review, legal research, provide legal opinion on business models and operations, in charge of dispute resolution, etc.
- Review existing and new products to manage compliance with local laws, regulations, and best practices, particularly local telecom regulations and data privacy requirements.
- Develop and execute a compliance strategy, including all necessary policies and procedures, to ensure the Company conducts its operations in compliance with all regional applicable rules, regulations, laws, and best practices.
- Lead response, investigation, analysis and applicable corrective action pertaining to any local compliance matter.
- Perform compliance audits to evaluate compliance with applicable laws and regulations, report to company leadership, and advise on and implement any necessary corrective action.
- Oversee the annual development of a risk assessment and annual compliance work plan that identifies the organization's unique characteristics and areas of regulatory risk, with a focus on the Company's products, and set forth a risk mitigation plan that will be implemented by the organization.
Required Qualifications:
- LLM from a presentable law school and 3-5 years of compliance experience
- Bilingual in Mandarin Chinese is a must
- Experience with the export controls, global regulatory compliance (TMT especially), and global data privacy compliance.
- Strong knowledge of control frameworks and the ability to design and evaluate the effectiveness of controls embedded within business processes.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex and sensitive issues to senior management and the executive team in a clear and persuasive manner
- Experience in the telecom industry or cloud service giant is strongly preferred.
