Director Trade Compliance Strategy & Resilience

What You'll Do

• Interpret trade compliance regulations and policy developments and translate them into MT- and Corporate/Business strategy-ready briefs, decision memos, and recommended actions.
• Monitor regulatory and geopolitical developments, assess relevance, and ensure timely stakeholder engagement.
• Provide early advisory input into strategic initiatives so trade compliance implications are understood before decisions are locked in.
• Provide “market access by design” advisory input into strategic footprint and architecture decisions (e.g., server/data hosting location, cross-border access models, sensitive engineering activities such as tape-out workflows).
• Advise on implications of entering high-sensitivity and nationally regulated market segments by translating constraints into decision-ready options, guardrails, escalation triggers, and recommended controls.
• Develop scenario thinking and resilience planning for high-impact regulatory and geopolitical changes.
• Coordinate alignment across Trade Compliance domain experts, Legal, Strategy, and business stakeholders to ensure consistent messaging and follow-through.
• Translate strategic insights into actionable operationalization priorities and playbook updates.
• Qualifications / Experience Experience in trade compliance, export controls/sanctions, customs/trade, regulatory strategy, or geopolitical risk.
• Strong ability to synthesize complex topics into executive-level insights and decision memos.
• Proven experience partnering with senior stakeholders across functions.
• Demonstrated ability to provide trade compliance advisory support in semiconductor design/manufacturing environments (e.g., tape‑out workflows, R&D collaboration models, data hosting/access choices, global supply chains).
• Semiconductor industry experience is strongly preferred.
• Education Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Language Fluent in English (written and spoken).
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