Vice President Legal and Regulatory

Head of Anti-Piracy & Platform Partnerships

JioStar is Indias leading media and entertainment business home to JioHotstar (500M monthly active users) and the exclusive home of the IPL (47551 Cr rights value) ICC events and Indias most-watched entertainment. With piracy costing Indias 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.

Strategy & Operations:

• Own end-to-end execution of JioStars anti-piracy strategy across broadcast OTT IPTV social media and emerging ecosystems.
• Define the functions 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.

• 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.