- Location
- Remote, CN
- Workplace
- Remote
- Type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- iCIMS
Description
Job Purpose
About the Role
Obviously Protect is the brand-protection business within the RWS Group, helping global brands monitor and enforce against online infringements across marketplaces, social media, websites and domains. We are scaling our teams across the US, EMEA and APAC, and this role is part of that build-out.
Stand up and lead Obviously Protect's APAC region — clients, platform relationships and a local team — opening in FY26 and scaling across FY27-FY28.
About Protect
RWS IP Solutions is the world’s leading provider of intellectual property support services. With over 60 years of experience, our leadership in high quality patent translations, foreign patent filing, IP research and patent renewal services is unrivalled. Combining expert patent translators and advanced technology ensure translations of the highest consistency and quality.
We help streamline clients’ internal processes, providing flexible, cost-effective foreign filing services reducing the administrative burden associated with protecting IP on a global scale. We offer patent renewals and recordals services, as well as the widest range of IP research services on the market. RWS IP Solutions supports its clients throughout the entire IP lifecycle, from concept to commercialisation. RWS clients include many of the world's best known brands, and 18 out of 20 of the world’s largest patent filers.
For further information, please visit: RWS IP Solutions
Job Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Own APAC client delivery and growth, building the regional team across Client Experience, Enforcement and, over time, Engineering.
- Develop relationships with APAC-specific platforms and marketplaces.
- Recruit, onboard and lead the APAC team; solid-line management of regional staff with dotted-line functional alignment to the VPs.
- Adapt enforcement and client-experience playbooks to the regional regulatory and platform landscape.
- Represent APAC in capacity planning and the hiring plan.
Skills & Experience
- Senior regional leadership experience in APAC, ideally in brand protection, IP, e-commerce or trust & safety.
- Strong knowledge of APAC platforms and marketplaces.
- Proven ability to build a function and team from the ground up.
- Fluency in relevant regional language(s) and cross-cultural commercial experience.
- Right to work in the relevant APAC market.
