Director of Legal (English, Japanese)

Minimum Qualifications:

• 15 years of experience in legal practice and engaging with Japan’s legal and regulatory institutions.
• 15 years of experience leading, developing, and managing full-service legal teams including litigation, commercial, and product work.
• 15 years of experience in navigating matrixed organizations headquartered in the US.
• Executive experience managing both internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate in English and Japanese fluently to support local relationship management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong business acumen, passion for technology and innovation, and familiarity with the tech industry.
• Ability to analyze and solve complex problems including under pressure and in unprecedented scenarios, and distilling complex situations and facts in order to get to the essence of an issue and drive for pragmatic solutions.
• Strong people management skills, with a focus on creating a culture of excellence, collaboration, and respect.
• Adept at navigating multicultural organizations and bridging cultural differences between Japan and western markets.

About The Job

We are seeking a Director of Legal, who can operate equally as a big-picture thinker while also problem solving on selected high stake matters. In this role, you will represent Google internally and externally. Reporting to the Head of Legal APAC, you will motivate a team of full-service legal professionals (including litigation, commercial, and product work) across the region to execute Google’s strategic legal agenda, taking into consideration broader geopolitical, marketplace, industry, and public sentiment, as well as Alphabet and Google’s vision, strategy, and long-term goals.

Collaborating with the executive leadership of adjacent functional areas (e.g., public policy, compliance, specialist legal teams such as anti-competition, privacy etc.) will be essential to the success of the role.

As an integral component of both the APAC Legal leadership and the regional cross-functional Japan leadership, you will navigate complex, matrixed, and relationship driven organizations in order to become an invaluable leader in shaping Google’s growth in the region.

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

• Lead, inspire, and develop a talented legal team that is responsible for providing the full range of legal services (covering commercial agreements, advisory and dispute resolution) in support of Google’s success in Japan.
• Provide strategic guidance on a wide range of legal, business, corporate strategy, and governance issues to key internal stakeholders across a diverse set of business areas.
• Work closely with key constituencies and functions such as public policy, regulatory affairs, product counsel, communications, compliance, and others to jointly implement winning strategies.
• Be a thought leader and advocate for innovation and regulations in legal, academic, industry, and policy circles. 

Provide strategic guidance on a wide range of legal, business, corporate strategy, and governance issues to key internal stakeholders across a diverse set of business areas.