Smaato, the global in-app advertising platform, drives the technology that keeps apps free. Smaato’s full-featured mobile ad server empowers apps of all sizes to reach their full monetization potential by connecting them with the world’s top advertisers. 

Our global headquarters are in San Francisco, California, and we have additional offices in Berlin, Hamburg, New York, Shanghai, and Singapore. Smaato’s employees (better known as Smaaties) represent 45 unique nationalities. You know you will fit in at Smaato if you are passionate about mobile technology and want to work on a product that influences the daily lives of people around the world. 

Interested? Learn more at smaato.com. 

Smaato is seeking a Legal Counsel to assist and support the team on our legal operations including advice and implementations on a broad range of legal and compliance matters.

What You’ll Do

• Draft, review, and negotiate data processing agreements and commercial contracts and provide privacy subject-matter expertise and guidance to the legal team and cross functional departments 
• Experience with advertising technology space overseeing negotiating, drafting, and advising on a variety of AdTech agreements and transactions, including key agreements relating to customers, partnership arrangements, suppliers, and vendors
• Monitor and administer the company’s compliance with regulatory requirements and global data protection and privacy laws including China’s Cybersecurity Law, the EU GDPR, Singapore Personal Data Protection Act, and other local regulations governing the use of personal data; updating data processing, privacy notices, and cookie policies
• Monitor compliance with local laws and regulations, including without limitation CBRC, SAFE, and PBOC rules and guidelines
• Assist in the preparation and review of regulatory filings
• Keep abreast of legal developments and changes in laws and regulations related to the company's business, advise of the impact on the institution of such changes and ensure contract provisions are compliant with relevant laws
• Ensure that legal/contractual guidelines and best practices are being applied
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including finance, accounting, human resources, sales, marketing, product, and engineering to manage corporate transactions and initiatives and to mitigate legal risk
• Support Smaato’s Legal team on other legal projects as may be required

• 4 - 6 years of relevant legal experience at a top-tier law firm or international in-house legal department. In-house experience at a digital advertising, data or media company is strongly preferred
• Expertise in global privacy laws including China’s Cybersecurity Law, EU GDPR, ePrivacy Directive/Regulation, Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act, CCPA, and other privacy regulations, and industry guidelines and best practices, especially including those relevant for adtech and other internet companies
• Excellent contract/commercial experience, including an understanding of intellectual property issues and data licensing concepts
• Law degree from an accredited law school with strong academic credentials, and qualified to practice law in China (法律资格证书)
• Experienced within the Internet industry required, experience in Advertising technology and data and consumer privacy regulations (including the GDPR and CCPA would be a plus
• Broad experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements and technology transactional work
• Proven ability to lead commercial projects with a wide range of legal issues with a global and platform focus
• Legal experience for successful operations, including administration, employment, contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, data privacy. Other pluses would be experience in banking, tax, litigation, capital raising and other areas
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with multiple international business functions, including a broad and deep professional knowledge in an international context (incl. EMEA and AMERICAS.)
• Excellent legal and business judgment, with the ability to assist the business to meet its objectives while appropriately managing legal risks
• Highly organized, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, deadlines, and changing priorities in a fast-paced and challenging work environment
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor communication as appropriate to different audiences and contexts and convey complex legal issues clearly and concisely
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity
• Working proficiency in English is a prerequisite