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Manager, Technology Compliance, Greater China

Apple· Software and Services
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About the role

IS&T Greater China Compliance leadership role in Shanghai, responsible for defining and delivering in-country technology compliance across privacy, financial, payment, and information security regimes (e.g., PIPL, SOX, PCI DSS, MLPS) for Apple’s enterprise technology landscape. Combines hands-on technical depth, program design, team building, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure compliance posture, audits, and monitoring in China.

Responsibilities

  • Strategy: Define the multi-year compliance strategy and roadmap for IS&T solutions in China across PIPL, SOX, PCI DSS, MLPS, and other applicable regimes. Anticipate emerging regulatory obligations, assess their impact on Apple's systems and data, and shape the organization's response before requirements land.
  • Program design: Architect compliance programs from first principles — control frameworks, assessment methodologies, evidence and testing approaches, governance forums, intake and escalation paths, and the metrics that prove they work. Where obligations overlap across regimes, design a common control set once and map it to many, rather than running parallel programs.
  • Build and lead the team: Define the team's shape and hire against it, growing a group of compliance professionals in China from the ground up. Set a high bar for analytical rigor and written clarity, establish career paths, give direct feedback, and create the conditions for people to do the best work of their careers.
  • Privacy and personal information protection: Own PIPL compliance for in-country solutions — governance of high-risk personal information processing, privacy assessments, data subject rights enablement, and cross-border data transfer requirements.
  • Stay in the details: Personally review assessments, findings, control designs, evidence packages, and reporting. Engage directly in technical design reviews and regulatory analysis. Maintain enough hands-on fluency with the data and systems to validate your team's conclusions and to be a credible partner to engineering leaders.
  • Design review and control fit: Evaluate proposed architectures, data flows, and technical designs to assess their fit with control objectives — identifying where a design satisfies requirements, where it falls short, and what alternatives would meet the objective more efficiently.
  • Requirements translation: Partner with Legal, Privacy, and Internal Audit to convert regulatory obligations and internal policy into practical, testable control requirements and repeatable operating processes.
  • Audit and assessment readiness: Own readiness for internal and external audits, assessments, and regulatory filings affecting in-country solutions. Coordinate with auditors and assessors, manage evidence collection, and drive findings to closure.
  • Risk governance and accountability: Own the risk picture for solutions running in China. Drive findings and commitments to closure, escalate with clarity, and hold owners across the organization accountable for outcomes.
  • Monitoring and reporting: Establish monitoring, metrics, and dashboards that give engineering leaders and executives a clear, honest view of compliance posture and emerging risk. Present to senior leadership in China and globally, and translate technical detail into decisions.
  • Cross-functional and cross-region leadership: Build strong relationships within China, with the sister compliance team in the United States, and with Apple's global functions and partner organizations. Bridge in-country requirements and global standards, drive alignment across time zones, and foster a unified approach to program goals.
  • Enablement and advocacy: Champion adoption of compliance platforms, tooling, and standards across the organization. Lead education and awareness initiatives in partnership with engineering teams.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in technology compliance, IT audit, risk management, information security, privacy, or data governance
  • 2+ years of experience leading teams, or leading large cross-functional programs with demonstrated ownership of scope, staffing, and outcomes
  • Experience hiring, coaching, and developing people, or a clear track record of technical mentorship and readiness to build a team
  • Experience defining compliance or risk program strategy and designing the frameworks, methodologies, and controls that operationalize it
  • Hands-on experience across multiple compliance regimes, such as PIPL, SOX / ITGC, PCI DSS, MLPS, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, ISO 27001, or comparable frameworks
  • Experience with regulatory requirements applicable to technology operations in China
  • Experience with data classification, data governance, data inventories, or data-flow mapping
  • Familiarity with cloud environments, enterprise applications, APIs, data platforms, and software development life cycle methodologies
  • Ability to evaluate technical designs and architectures against control objectives and articulate gaps to both engineering and non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrated ability to translate regulatory, policy, or control requirements into practical and scalable processes
  • Experience influencing senior stakeholders and building consensus across matrixed, cross-functional organizations
  • Professional fluency in both Mandarin and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills in each
  • Ability to operate effectively in an ambiguous, evolving regulatory environment and to set direction for others within it
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Skills

Required:Strategy developmentProgram designPeople leadershipPIPL complianceAuditing & assessment readinessData governance & data mapping

Benefits

  • Apple benefits not specified in description
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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