Senior Corporate Counsel

**Why PlayStation?**

PlayStation isn't just the Best Place to Play — it's also the Best Place to Work. Today, we're recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

**Role Overview**:
An outstanding opportunity at Sony Interactive Entertainment to offer legal support across APAC. The Senior Corporate Counsel will focus on legal matters in 4-5 markets, supporting channel sales, digital distribution, and business operations. Responsibilities include handling consumer law issues and providing regulatory advice for the PlayStation Store and live services business.

**What you'll be doing**:
Provide transactional support and counseling to a broad range of SIE business functions in APAC, including:

- Collaborate with the Legal Director and other team members to advise and assist business teams in managing risk and driving growth in the Asia-Pacific region. Focus on 4-5 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, and potentially Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, or Vietnam.
- Providing general legal advice on corporate and commercial activities, including day-to-day business operations, sales, distribution, marketing, advertising, consumer matters, vendor engagement and regulatory matters, among others.
- Review, draft and negotiate business agreements and legal documents in support of all lines of business, including procurement, new business initiatives and program rollouts.
- Lead and respond to inquiries or investigations by regulators, with internal teams and outside counsel where required.
- Be a strategic partner to business, operational and functional support teams.
- Work closely with SIE's Legal Director, APAC on direction and strategy as part of the legal department's regional support for APAC.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues in the legal department to standardize and simplify processes and systems in the APAC region.
- Supervise and potentially lead members of the APAC legal team.
- Provide legal training to sales, marketing and operations teams.
- Lead outside counsel.
- Supervise regulatory developments in your assigned countries and provide legal analysis and compliance recommendations with such laws.
- Assist to drive or lead key legal activities either at an APAC or country level.
- Directly undertake or help to drive regional projects from time to time.
- Ability to become a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in 1-2 areas while managing a broader remit.

**What we're looking for**:

- Law graduate with a license to practice law in Australia, Singapore, England or another common law jurisdiction. Must be well-versed in consumer laws for Australia and New Zealand.
- Minimum 12 years' experience practicing law either in an in-house corporate legal department, top-tier law firm or a combination of both.
- Familiarity with ACCC guidelines on consumer matters, white goods, and online safety issues.
- Experience providing legal support for consumer electronics sales (physical and e-sales) and hardware distribution in the ANZ/APAC region.
- A keen eye for detail - precision, accuracy, and very good attention to detail are essential.
- A motivated, reliable, focused, self-starter who thinks and works proactively and cross-functionally and is effective at working and solving problems collaboratively with other collaborators.
- Excellent drafting and negotiation skills in at English.
- Excellent communicator possessing excellent interpersonal skills.
- Experience providing legal support to sales and marketing organizations in the APAC region.
- Ability to think and negotiate creatively and optimally, balancing legal constraints with business goals and objectives.
- Excellent decision-making skills and ability to identify and prioritize the highest impact initiatives and driving them to pragmatic resolution.

**Desired Qualities and Experience**:

- Combination of in-house and law firm practice experience in the APAC office of a top law firm.
- Ability to speak multiple languages relevant to APAC.
- Experience working closely with senior business management.
- Previous experience in a highly matrixed organization.
- Able to work in a highly engaged team distributed across multiple time zones and cultures.

**Equal Opportunity Statement**:

- Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expre