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Senior Services Compliance Manager

Apple· Software and Services
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About the role

Senior in-country leader in China responsible for driving regulatory, compliance, and partner engineering work within Apple’s Services organization. Focused on how evolving data, cybersecurity, and internet regulations in China impact Apple’s services, translating regulatory obligations into systems architecture, data governance, data export, and content operations. Leads regulatory engagements, partner relationships, and a China-based team to ensure reliable, secure, and compliant services.

Responsibilities

  • Defining & Driving In-Country Regulatory Programs: You partner closely with Apple’s policy, legal, and technical experts to understand local regulations, policies, and emerging risks. You and your team develop plans for how these requirements map directly to Apple’s services, considering Apple’s products, policies, and services architecture. You will develop concrete technical options, trade-offs, and actionable recommendations for global engineering and business leadership.
  • Direct Technical & Regulatory Engagement: You serve as the senior local voice of Services engineering in direct dialogue with regulatory authorities, government ministries, designated assessment institutions, and external auditors. You represent Services engineering in high-stakes regulatory discussions, formal assessments, and technical reviews, including Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS) audits and Cross-border Data Transfer Security Assessments.
  • Strategic Partner & Relationship Management: You serve as the primary in-country leader managing regulatory and compliance relationships with critical operating partners in China. You navigate the operational, technical, and cultural dynamics between organizations, building trusted partnerships to resolve complex compliance issues while protecting Apple’s engineering and product principles.
  • People Leadership & Team Building: You lead an in-country team responsible for driving key on-the-ground China regulatory and compliance work across Services. You foster deep ownership, empowering your team to support Apple’s global teams.
  • Technical Depth & Solution Architecture: You bring the technical depth required to evaluate how regulations apply to our systems, including understanding service system architectures, backend data flows, and cloud infrastructure. You partner closely with US engineering to inform sound, scalable, and compliant technical solutions.
  • Executive Communication & Cross-Cultural Influence: You communicate and influence effectively with leadership across Apple in both the US and China. You bridge geographic and cultural distances, align competing priorities across distributed teams, and drive consensus on high-stakes technical and policy decisions.
  • Scaling Through Process & Frameworks: You scale your team’s impact by designing practical operating processes, audit-readiness pipelines, and governance frameworks that bring structure and repeatable execution to complex compliance mandates.

Qualifications

  • Direct experience representing technology/engineering organizations in regulatory engagements, government assessments, or technical audits with Chinese regulatory authorities or designated assessment bodies, with direct familiarity managing frameworks such as Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS) or Cross-border Data Transfer Security Assessments.
  • 8+ years of experience leading complex technical programs or engineering initiatives in cloud, distributed platforms, or internet services.
  • 4+ years of formal people management experience, successfully leading and developing senior technical or technical program management professionals.
  • 4+ years of dedicated experience developing technical, operational, and business requirements based on legal, regulatory, cybersecurity, or data governance requirements.
  • Demonstrated technical competence evaluating services architectures, backend data flows, cloud infrastructure, or data residency/storage models.
  • Proven track record managing and negotiating complex technical, operational, or business relationships with external strategic partners, platform operators, or service providers.
  • Complete bilingual professional fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English (written and spoken), with proven mastery leading technical reviews, negotiating complex issues, and presenting to executive and government audiences in both languages.
  • Demonstrated excellence in communicating with and influencing senior leadership across global engineering, legal, business, product, and operations organizations across time zones.

Skills

Required:Regulatory strategy and program managementRegulatory engagement with authorities and auditorsPeople leadershipTechnical architecture & systems understandingExecutive communication

Benefits

  • Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity, and thus we treat all applicants fairly and equally.
  • Apple is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
  • Accessibility initiatives and related workplace resources are available.
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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