Compliance Product Owner, Japan

• Build and maintain scalable processes to support security compliance across the APAC region, ensuring alignment with global standards and unified compliance strategies.
• Translate security compliance requirements into actionable programs, including gap analyses, remediation plans, and implementation of necessary security controls.
• Perform internal assessments against ISMAP control domains for products seeking the certification, ensuring detailed evaluation and readiness for external review.
• Manage ISMAP compliance activities, working closely with external auditors and Japanese government agencies.
• Prepare, review, and finish the application documentation required for ISMAP compliance, ensuring accuracy and timely submission.
• Independently conduct end-to-end security compliance audits and assessments, consistently meeting strict deadlines and maintaining executive-level metrics and reporting.
• Manage audit work, identify and analyze process gaps, draft compliance reports to detail the compliance objectives, key findings, and work with teams to remediate key findings
• Serve as the domain expert for ISMAP, leading compliance discussions, raising awareness, and facilitating both internal and external audit interviews.
• Apply your proficiency in Japanese to prepare documentation and communicate effectively with local partners and collaborators.
• Work under the supervision and support of the Tech GRC manager and drive technology compliance activities across Adobe.

• Fluent Japanese and business-level English with speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Security/Cyber Security or related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of related security compliance assessments, IT/Cloud auditing, and control testing experience.
• Proven knowledge of Security Compliance frameworks (e.g., ISMAP, IRAP, ISO, SOC 2, etc.).
• Strong auditing background, technical expertise, and deep knowledge of information security controls such as SDLC, Cryptography, Access management and Backup will be useful
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, GCP, along with hands on experience
• Good interpersonal skills. It is essential that the candidate is a team-player and possesses strong organizational and planning skills
• Ability to anticipate questions, independently assess risk, and think critically and creatively.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with a distributed team in a fast-paced environment.
• Relevant security related certifications (e.g., CISA, CISM) are a plus.
• Knowledge of AI in security and compliance is preferred.

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