Senior Legal Executive, Privacy & Compliance - #1165192

At Sony, we strive to create a place for you to realise your potential and inspire you to make positive impact through innovation, smart collaboration and boundless curiosity. We are looking for people who believe that they can enrich lives and help us achieve our purpose – fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology.

About the role

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.

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

• Good command of written and spoken English

• Data protection certifications: CIPP, CIPM (advantageous)

What you should have

• 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

Benefits you will have

• Flexible work arrangement

• Comprehensive medical benefits (including physical health screenings and term life insurance benefits)

• AWS and variable bonus

• Special staff purchase rates

• Flexible benefits

• Corporate social responsibility time off for 1 day each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice

• Milestone gifts (such as long service award and marriage gift)

• Wellness activities to promote healthy lifestyles

• Curated training programmes to encourage continuous professional development