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Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Are you passionate about privacy and eager to tackle exciting challenges?

Our Global Privacy team, a vital part of our legal tribe, ensures that Wise upholds the highest standards for protecting our customers' privacy and data security. We're looking for a talented and enthusiastic privacy expert to lead our APAC regional privacy team in Singapore.

In this role, you'll be instrumental in designing innovative privacy solutions for our products, working closely with our brilliant business and engineering teams. You'll also partner with our legal, compliance, and risk teams to support new projects and partnerships, ensuring privacy compliance is seamlessly embedded across the APAC region. Being based in Singapore will allow you to provide essential local time-zone support and collaborate directly with other members of the Wise Legal team in APAC.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Championing Privacy: Localize and implement our global privacy transformation program throughout the APAC region.
• Innovating with Impact: Collaborate with business and engineering teams to design and launch cutting-edge products for the APAC market, ensuring privacy is built-in from the start.
• Strategic Partnerships: Advise on the privacy aspects of Wise platform partnerships and agreements with banks and financial institutions, including contractual arrangements.
• Global Growth: Support our expansion efforts as we launch Wise products and services in new jurisdictions.
• Regional Oversight: Oversee privacy compliance for our APAC entities and contribute to reporting for regional oversight committees and entity boards.
• Audit Support: Assist with periodic global and regional audits of privacy compliance within Wise.
• Staying Ahead: Keep up-to-date with evolving regulatory requirements in the APAC region and translate them into practical business solutions.
• AI Governance: Support the implementation of Wise's AI Governance framework, monitor emerging AI regulations and guidelines in APAC, and help drive associated regulatory changes.

We're looking for a proactive, influential, and clear communicator who thrives in dynamic environments. You'll be comfortable navigating ambiguous situations, making swift judgment calls, and paying close attention to detail. Excellent project management skills are a must, along with a knack for collaborating across teams to find practical solutions.

• Excellent academic credentials. Minimum of 8 years privacy experience at a top-tier law firm or in-house
• Strong understanding of APAC privacy, data protection and data security laws
• Experienced in handling privacy inquiries, complaints and incidents.
• Experience in privacy by design and data protection impact assessments
• Experience in dealing with regulators in APAC on privacy matters.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating privacy related contracts and developing compliance and auditing frameworks
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English
• Admitted to practice law in at least one APAC jurisdiction
• A problem solving attitude, with the ability to use regulation together with data to drive business decisions
• Ability to drive and deliver projects from inception to completion, timely and with attention to detail
• Experience (or interest) in working in a fast-growing environment.

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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