Vice President - Legal and Regulatory

**Head of Anti-Piracy & Platform Partnerships** **About the Role:** JioStar is India's leading media and entertainment business, home to JioHotstar (500M+ monthly active users) and the exclusive home of the IPL (₹47,551 Cr rights value), ICC events and India's most-watched entertainment. With piracy costing India's video sector an estimated $1.2 billion annually, content protection is a key priority. This is a build-and-lead mandate. The function operates as a lean, intelligence-led command centre. The Head of Anti-Piracy & Platform Partnerships will own operational strategy, platform governance, vendor management, law enforcement coordination and live-event readiness across domestic and future international markets. **Key Responsibilities:** **Strategy & Operations:** * Own end-to-end execution of JioStar's anti-piracy strategy across broadcast, OTT, IPTV, social media and emerging ecosystems. * Define the function's operating model, KPIs and business-impact metrics — moving beyond volume-based takedown counts. * Lead international expansion planning: jurisdictional scoping, coalition partnerships, and phased capability build-out. **Platform Partnerships & Escalation:** * Own senior relationships with Meta, Google/YouTube, Telegram, ISPs, hosting providers, registrars and CDNs. * Lead escalation pathways for high-priority takedowns, repeat-offender action and live-event enforcement. * Represent JioStar in industry coalitions and platform trust & safety forums (ACE, IBCAP, AAPA and equivalents). **Live-Event Anti-Piracy Operations:** * Command the live-event anti-piracy operation for IPL, ICC and premium events — 24/7 control-room oversight, mobilization within hours. * Establish playbooks for restream takedowns, app-store enforcement and ISP-level blocking during marquee fixtures. **Intelligence, Investigations & Vendor Governance:** * Oversee the Intelligence & Investigations and the Data, Automation & Vendor Governance portfolio; ensure intelligence precedes every enforcement action. * Govern the external vendor ecosystem: set SLAs, manage performance, rationalize the partner footprint and drive automation. **Law Enforcement, Legal & Regional Coordination:** * Build senior relationships with national and state law enforcement, cyber cells, and MIB. * Direct Regional Enforcement Coordinators on field operations, raids and state-level piracy disruption. * Partner with in-house Legal on orders, dynamic injunctions, site-blocking and criminal complaints. **Executive Engagement:** * Drive cross-functional coordination with Business, Legal, Distribution, Content Operations and Technology. * Deliver executive reporting on threat landscape, enforcement outcomes and business impact to senior leadership. **Required Experience & Capabilities:** * 15+ years in OTT, digital media, broadcasting or Trust & Safety, with a meaningful share in content protection, anti-piracy, fraud or platform integrity. * Proven track record managing complex, multi-stakeholder enforcement programs at scale across digital, broadcast and physical distribution. * Direct engagement with Meta, Google/YouTube, Telegram, ISPs and hosting providers at a senior governance level. * Deep, current understanding of digital piracy ecosystems — illegal IPTV networks, restream chains, Telegram piracy, cyberlockers and app-based modalities. * Intelligence orientation — approaches problems as an investigator, not an operator; comfortable with attribution analysis and OSINT outputs. * Systems thinking, platform ecosystem fluency, operational maturity and strong stakeholder management at executive, regulatory and law-enforcement levels. * Live-event content protection operations experience strongly preferred. **Alternative Backgrounds Considered:** _JioStar will actively consider Ex-Armed Forces SSC officers (Indian Navy / Air Force) from Signals, Intelligence, Cyber or Information Warfare backgrounds with demonstrable platform-ecosystem fluency._