Legal & Compliance Counsel

The role

This role focuses on corporate legal affairs management. The person will handle contract review and legal operations alongside regulatory compliance for privacy, AI, and advertising.

What you will do

• Liaise and give accurate legal direction to global colleagues on legal requirements for commercial activities.
• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts related to sales, vendors, partners, licensing, and marketing.
• Apply and streamline corporate legal procedure and process.
• Conduct research on legal issues related to AdTech or MarTech business.
• Own product-facing regulatory compliance across privacy, AI, and advertising.
• Perform contract review and legal operation 50% of the time.
• Perform compliance work 50% of the time.
• Complete other tasks or projects as directed by Legal Manager.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor of Law degree (LL.B)
• Minimum 1 year of legal experience at a law firm or as in-house counsel, using Japanese as a working language
• Proficiency in Japanese and Chinese
• Desire to learn and work in AdTech or/and MarTech industry
• Willingness to stay updated on changing regulations and industry trends
• Be open-minded, ambitious; and communicate directly

Nice to have

• Japan and/or US bar certificate
• Experience in Data Compliance
• Working experience in advertising or/and software industry
• Business English

About the company

Appier is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence to power business decision-making. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.