Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• JD, equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with litigation, regulatory and corporate investigations, including addressing, minimizing, and avoiding regulatory risk.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in engaging with regulators and global data protection or consumer protection authorities.
• Experience in developing, evaluating, and maintaining programs that ensure products comply with law, regulations, and external commitments.
• Experience working with public company boards and their counsel, including special and audit committees.
• Experience working with tech companies and understand complex technical issues.
• Experience in managing projects and partnering with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, time management, analytical, and investigative skills.

About the job

As Corporate Counsel at Google, you work on the most exciting legal issues as disruptive technological innovations require creative and proactive legal guidance. You're part of a whip-smart group of in-house lawyers and the projects and cases you take on challenge you to think big and differently. You are collaborative -- ready to partner in initiatives that influence all aspects of the business and work with Googlers from all over the company. As an integrated part of the team, you proactively assess legal risks and advise on products that will not only move information into the 21st century, but move information law forward as well.

As a Legal Counsel you will join an APAC-based team addressing the highest and emerging risks pertaining to the way we build our products to serve the needs and build the trust of our users. You will work closely with Google and other companies' Legal, Data Security and Privacy, Public Policy, Office of Compliance and Integrity, Communications, Marketing, Product and Engineering teams to identify, prevent, and solve and adapt to the organization's highest risks.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Assess and respond to urgent regulatory inquiries and investigate our products and businesses.
• Support Legal Product and Engineering teams involved in conducting investigations, training, tracking, and monitoring regulatory inquiries, and respond to matters involving high risk.
• Work with Product, Engineering, and Compliance teams to advise them of regulatory risk.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also and If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our .