Global Head of Export Control & Trade Compliance

Our Global Legal Compliance (GLC) team provides key support for the company's innovative initiatives, advanced technology development, and integrated platforms serving our global markets. We partner closely with legal, business, product, engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to help enable strategic growth while managing complex regulatory risk.

We are looking for an experienced Export Control & Trade Compliance Team Leader to lead our export control and trade compliance team within Global Legal Compliance. This role will lead the development, implementation, and continuous enhancement of the company’s global export control and trade compliance program in response to a rapidly evolving regulatory environment affecting advanced semiconductors, AI models, cloud infrastructure, software, and related technologies.

The ideal candidate is a qualified lawyer with substantial experience leading trade compliance programs in-house, ideally in the semiconductor, advanced computing, cloud, or data center sectors. This individual should have a demonstrated ability to build scalable compliance frameworks, translate complex export control and trade compliance requirements into operational controls, advise on high-risk cross-border technology matters, and lead a growing team supporting business-critical, high-visibility issues. The candidate should possess strong executive communication skills, with the ability to translate highly technical issues into layman’s terms and help executives make informed business decisions. This is a fast-paced, high-visible, and high-impact role with the opportunity to shape a foundational compliance function supporting the company’s global infrastructure and its expansion.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide strategic, risk-based legal and compliance advice to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders on export control, import/customs, sanctions-adjacent trade compliance, product deployment, infrastructure expansion, technology transfers, vendor and customer onboarding, and other cross-border business activities; serve as a trusted advisor who can translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, commercially grounded guidance.
• Lead the enhancement, implementation, and continuous improvement of the company's global export control, import, customs, and trade compliance program, including policies, procedures, internal controls, governance frameworks, and escalation pathways; drive program maturity assessments and ensure the compliance framework remains risk-based, scalable, and responsive to the company's evolving business footprint.
• Oversee core compliance operations including classification, restricted party screening, licensing, import/customs compliance, record keeping, training, monitoring, internal reviews, and audit and enforcement readiness; maintain operational standards that produce defensible documentation and support the program's ability to withstand regulatory scrutiny.
• Monitor and assess evolving regulatory and enforcement developments across BIS, OFAC, CBP, and relevant non-US regimes, and translate those changes into practical, scalable program enhancements, updated internal guidance, and timely business communications, especially about semiconductor, advanced computing, cloud, data center, logistics, supply chain, or broader technology sectors.
• Partner closely with legal, product, engineering, infrastructure, procurement, supply chain, logistics, public policy, and operations teams to embed trade compliance requirements into business and technical workflows; participate in strategic and operational reviews to surface trade compliance implications early and drive durable, workflow-integrated solutions.
• Manage external counsel and internal team members, driving operational efficiency, and fostering a high-performing, solutions-oriented team culture; establish clear priorities, support professional development, and ensure the team is resourced and structured to meet the program's current and anticipated demands.

Minimum Qualifications

• Qualified to practice law in the U.S. or another common law jurisdiction with relevant in-house and/or law firm experience in export control, import/customs, trade compliance, international trade, or related regulatory legal work in the sectors of semiconductor, advanced computing, cloud, data center, logistics, or supply chain.
• Demonstrated experience building or materially enhancing trade compliance programs for complex multinational businesses, ideally in the technology, semiconductor, advanced computing, cloud, data center, or infrastructure sectors.
• Demonstrated people management experience, including direct management, coaching, and development of high-performing team members.
• Deep familiarity with U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the EAR, BIS enforcement frameworks, licensing concepts, restricted party screening, and governance expectations, as well as strong knowledge of import and customs compliance requirements, including customs valuation, tariff classification, country of origin, import documentation, broker management, and related regulatory risks. Practical experience handling export control, import, and customs compliance issues is equally important.
• Strong understanding of cross-border technology, supply chain, and infrastructure risks, including export controls affecting advanced semiconductors, AI technologies, software, cloud/data center operations, and intangible technology transfers.
• Proven ability to assess legal, operational, and reputational risk and provide practical, business-oriented guidance to senior executives in a fast-moving global environment.
• High integrity, professionalism, and discretion, with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach and the ability to operate effectively under ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the semiconductor, advanced computing, cloud, data center, logistics, supply chain, or broader technology sector.
• Experience managing sensitive enforcement, disclosure, internal investigation, customs audit, or regulatory response matters.
• Familiarity with multi-jurisdictional trade compliance developments involving key jurisdictions such as the U.S., UK, EU, and Singapore.
• Experience helping build or scale a global trade compliance function in a high-growth environment.