Senior Analyst - Global Export Controls

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Job Description

Job Description – Senior Analyst, Global Export Controls

Location - Framingham, Massachusetts / Hybrid

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Global Export Controls Senior Analyst to join our Trade Compliance practice and help us lead and support our global export controls program across multiple jurisdictions. This role requires deep technical expertise in export controls regulations, strong legal interpretation capabilities, and extensive experience managing export control compliance for both intangible transfers of technology, software, technical data, and services, and tangible transfers.  As a technology company, extensive and proven experience administering export controls compliance programs for intangible transfers is required. 

The successful candidate will serve as a subject matter expert responsible for assessing regulatory requirements, classifying products and technologies, monitoring regulatory developments, securing export authorizations, onboarding new jurisdictions into the company’s export controls framework, and delivering training across the organization. This role will also play a key role in the development and enhancement of the organization's Export Controls Diagnosis and Document Management Platform, helping define requirements, workflows, governance, and compliance controls.

The ideal candidate possesses 12+ years of full-time experience serving in a dedicated export controls compliance position, including significant expertise across the export control regimes of the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom, Australia and the European Union. In terms of the EU, experience dealing with the national licensing authorities is a requirement.

As part of their application, candidates are required to identify the specific national export control regimes in which they have established subject matter expertise, and provide a summary of their experience applying those regulations in a business environment.

Key Responsibilities

Global Export Controls Compliance

• Serve as a senior subject matter expert on global export control regulations and licensing requirements.  Interpret and apply export control laws, regulations, and guidance across multiple jurisdictions.
• Conduct export controls assessments for products, software, technology, technical data, services, and transactions, including assigning classifications under relevant national and multilateral control regimes.  Assess deemed exports, technology transfers, cloud-based transfers, remote access arrangements, and research collaborations.
• Review business activities and proposed transactions to identify export control risks and compliance obligations.

• Develop and maintain controls governing intangible transfers of technology and technical data.
• Partner with engineering, product management, legal, cybersecurity, and IT teams to ensure compliant transfer mechanisms.

Licensing & Government Authorizations

• Prepare, submit, and manage export license applications and associated government filings, and coordinate communications with regulatory authorities and government agencies.
• Provide strategic recommendations regarding licensing pathways, exemptions, exceptions, and permit eligibility.

Regulatory Monitoring & Legal Interpretation

• Monitor developments in global export controls regulations and related measures, and implement updates to compliance procedures, policies, and business processes accordingly.
• Conduct legal and regulatory research and provide practical compliance guidance to stakeholders.

Export Controls Program Development

• Support the expansion and maturity of the organization’s global export controls program.
• Lead onboarding activities for new jurisdictions and regulatory frameworks.
• Develop, update and implement export controls policies, procedures, standards, and governance mechanisms.
• Conduct risk assessments and internal audits to evaluate program effectiveness, and implement remediation activities.

Platform Development & Digital Compliance Solutions

• Serve as a key business lead in the development of the company’s Export Controls Diagnosis and Document Management Platform.
• Define business requirements, workflows, data structures, controls, and user experience requirements.
• Partner with product owners to deliver scalable digital compliance solutions supporting classification and license management, regulatory assessments, document retention, audit traceability, jurisdictional analysis, and automation initiatives.

Training & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead export control training, awareness, and capability-building initiatives through practical guidance, compliance tools, and stakeholder engagement.
• Provide strategic export control advice, mentor compliance personnel, and support implementation of policy objectives across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in International Trade, Law, Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional certifications in Export Controls preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 12 years of experience in export controls compliance.
• Extensive experience managing complex global export control programs within multinational organizations.
• Demonstrated expertise in export controls licensing, classification, and regulatory analysis.
• Significant experience with intangible transfers of technology, technical data, software, cloud environments, and digital collaboration platforms.
• Proven experience working across multiple export control jurisdictions globally, with significant expertise on the interpretation and application of the export control laws of China and United States.
• Experience supporting export controls for technology, software, telecommunications, defence, semiconductor, AI, cloud computing, or advanced manufacturing industries.

Systems & Technology

Expert-level proficiency in:

• SAP and NetSuite
• Atlassian Suite: Jira, Confluence and Jira Service Management
• Microsoft 365 applications
• Export control management systems
• Document management platforms
• Workflow automation and case management tools

At Bose, you're inspired to be and do your best and are rewarded for your unique talents! Our compensation is thoughtfully tailored to your skills, experience, education, and location, and goes beyond base salary. The hiring range for this position in the primary work location of Framingham, Massachusetts is: $124,000-$170,500.The hiring range for other Bose work locations may vary.

In addition to competitive base pay we offer rewards including bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, plus exclusive perks designed to support your wellbeing, and a generous employee discount where you can immerse yourself in our products and experiences. We are a proudly independent company—driven by purpose, guided by our values, and united by a belief in the power of sound. As the world leader in audio experiences, we’re creating what’s next—pushing boundaries and delivering transformative sound experiences for people everywhere. Join us and make your next career move a mic-drop. Let’s Make Waves.

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