Senior Manager/DGM - Regulatory Affairs - Telecom

An international telecommunications company is seeking a talented Senior Regulatory Counsel to join its Legal Department. This position is based in Mumbai, India. The Company provides national long distance, subsea cable capacity, international voice services, MPLS, Internet transit, SaaS, Global SIP, IOT and other products worldwide.

We are seeking candidates with:

- Demonstrable experience in Telecommunications Regulation and Policy in India (and, preferably, South Asia), including telecommunications licensing, reporting, and compliance requirements;

- Strong knowledge of the types of telecommunications services mentioned above; and

- Familiarity with new technology/new product rollout, such as IoT, mobile roaming, and cloud-based services.

Key responsibilities include:

- Licensing, ongoing regulatory compliance, preparation of complex reports, supervision of outside counsel, and interaction/negotiation with regulators and other government officials;

- resolving regulatory issues affecting both proposed and existing products (providing overall product guidance as well as answering questions affecting specific sales); and assisting with new product rollouts;

- advising commercial attorneys on regulatory issues and assisting with evaluating which contracting methodology might best enable commercial activities while minimizing regulatory risk;

- providing strategic advice to the business on regulatory constraints/issues with respect to markets and/or technologies;

- assisting responsible group with all other telecommunications regulatory compliance matters; and

- providing support and advising on issues of significant importance to the Company with regulators.