Legal & Compliance Counsel

Appier is hiring a Legal & Compliance Counsel in Taipei and Tokyo. Level rates it ; you can apply on Appier.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Level classifies it as a junior role.
Level lists 66 other open roles at Appier.

AI in this role

About Appier

Appier is an s AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent. Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and U.S., and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information.

About The Role

We are looking for Legal & Compliance Counsel role who will be focusing on corporate legal affairs management. This role will require proficiency in Japanese and Chinese, and business-level English is preferred. We especially welcome cross-disciplinary legal professionals — those who bring knowledge from outside the law (technology, data, marketing, or business) and enjoy working hand-in-hand with product and commercial teams.

Responsibilities

• Liaise and give accurate legal direction regularly with our global colleagues on their legal requirements for their commercial activities.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of contracts and other legal documents, primarily related to sales, vendors, partners, licensing, and marketing. The work will be mainly conducted in Japanese, with occasional involvement in Mandarin Chinese and English contracts.
• Apply and streamline corporate legal procedure and process.
•Compliance: conduct research on legal issues related to AdTech or/and MarTech business that may impact company. This role owns Appier's product-facing regulatory compliance across privacy, AI, and advertising (incl. IAB standards).
• Work allocation: contract review and legal operation 50%; compliance work 50%
• Other tasks or projects as directed by Legal Manager

About You

[Essential]
• Be open-minded, ambitious; and communicate directly.
• Bachelor of Law degree is required (LL.B).
• Minimum 1 year of legal experience at a law firm or as in-house counsel, using Japanese as a working language (experience does not need to be based in Japan)
• Desire to learn and work in AdTech or/and MarTech industry, with willingness to stay updated on changing regulations and industry trends.

[Nice to have]
• Japan and/or US bar certificate.
• Experience in Data Compliance.
• Working experience in advertising or/and software industry.
• Business English

#LI-AC2

How we rate this

Legal & Compliance Counsel at Appier rates 21 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.