Head of Privacy

Traveltechessentialist; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Perk is seeking a Head of Privacy to lead our global privacy program and scale privacy operations across the organisation. You will be responsible for building a risk-based strategy, advising senior leadership on material privacy risks, and working with Security, Engineering, Data, and Compliance teams to embed privacy by design in products and operations.

The role requires strong autonomy, strategic vision, and the ability to translate complex regulatory landscapes into practical outcomes that

Formación

• Around seven years’ experience developing a specialization in Privacy.
• Experience building and scaling a customer trust program and privacy operations.
• Ability to deploy technology to create user-friendly automated workflows.

Responsabilidades

• Own and evolve a global privacy program with risk-based strategy and controls.
• Contribute to AI governance and privacy-by-design integration with product teams.
• Advise senior leadership on material privacy risks and compliance exposure.
• Maintain a comprehensive view of processing activities and regulatory mapping.
• Lead privacy tooling, reporting, and governance across departments.

Conocimientos

Privacy

Regulatory compliance

Privacy by design

Leadership

Descripción del empleo

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.

Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.

Visit www.perk.com to learn more.

Head of Privacy

Perk is the intelligent platform for travel and spend - bringing travel bookings, events, expense management, and invoice payments together in one AI-powered platform. We serve thousands of businesses globally, from high-growth start-ups to major enterprises, and we’re backed by world-class investors.

We’re a SaaS and AI technology scale-up, with hubs across Europe and the US. We’re building a company where AI isn’t just the backbone of the product - it’s in how every team works. Across Perk, we use tools like Claude and Gemini to move faster, think bigger, and deliver at a scale that would be impossible without them.

We rebranded from TravelPerk to Perk in March 2025 to reflect the breadth of what we’ve become, and what we’re going to be. If you want to do the most impactful work of your career, in a team that’s genuinely reimagining what in-house privacy looks like, we’d love to hear from you.

What’s the role?

You’re a leader (or a person looking to lead) with around seven years’ experience developing their specialism in Privacy. Perhaps you’re frustrated at your lack of autonomy? Perhaps you have radical ideas as to how a modern privacy team functions, but you don’t have the platform to execute those ideas? Great: you may be what we’re looking for.

You will help to build and scale our customer trust program, and you’ll drive our privacy operations strategy. To help Perk win, you will simplify the increasingly complex regulatory landscape of privacy, AI, cybersecurity, and data governance into outcomes that our customers can feel. You will be highly literate in (and capable of independently deploying) technology to create user-friendly automated workflows that drive innovation and maintain product development velocity, all while ensuring the best-in-class data protection standards our customers and staff expect.

What will your day-to-day look like?

This is a "doing" role - with a strong strategic component - where a strong bias to action is critical. It is not an abstract strategy role, and you won’t be reviewed on the quality of your decks or memos. Rather: you will deliver high-impact, creative, commercial solutions to improve our privacy posture and scale our privacy program; you will collaborate with and work through teams to keep integrating privacy by design into our products; you’ll also identify and manage the privacy and AI compliance risks that matter most, support key business and product choices, strengthen our culture of privacy, and help other leaders make well-informed decisions involving the responsible use of data.

You will also collaborate closely with the DPO, and build trust continually with the Security, People/HR, Procurement, Product and Engineering, Data, Revenue, and Customer Care teams to ensure alignment on company initiatives involving the processing of personal data. You’ll manage a team of two.

What will the role entail?

• Own and evolve Perk’s global privacy program, setting a risk-based strategy, roadmap, policies and controls aligned with applicable laws, regulatory expectations and customer commitments.
• Contribute to Perk’s global AI governance program, working closely with Builders, Security and Legal.
• Advise the CLO, executive team and business leaders on material privacy risks, helping them make practical choices that protect individuals, manage compliance exposure and support Perk’s commercial objectives.
• Maintain an accurate view of Perk’s personal data and processing activities, including the ROPA, data flows, classification, lawful bases, cross-border transfer mechanisms and subprocessor transparency.
• Oversee operational privacy controls, including retention and deletion, cookies and tracking, consent and preference management, marketing compliance, privacy notices, and individual rights and complaints (DSR).
• Support data governance protocols, collaborating with the Data, Engineering, and Security teams to acquire the right governance tools.
• Oversee the risk-based review of new personal data processing initiatives, including PIAs/DPIAs, LIAs, AI inventory and classification, and AI risk and impact assessments. Ensure agreed mitigation actions are tracked through to completion.
• Partner with Security to align on privacy requirements and coordinate the privacy workstream for personal data breaches. Work with AI governance owners on AI incidents, including assessment, escalation, notification and remediation.
• Own privacy risk reporting and assurance, including the privacy risk register, audit-ready evidence, control testing and meaningful privacy metrics covering material risks, incidents, remediation, patterns, trends, and program performance.
• Collaborate with Security, Engineering, and other departments to integrate privacy by design into product development, business operations, and marketing activities, and assist in the implementation and upkeep of privacy-enhancing technologies (PET).
• Monitor regulatory and enforcement developments across Perk’s key jurisdictions, and ensure privacy guidelines, and other knowledge resources are clear, practical, up-to-date, and aligned with the latest regulatory updates.
• Create and maintain privacy products and resources, such as our Trust Center, to effectively share privacy knowledge with both internal and external customers.
• Oversee the privacy tooling and automation roadmap, ensuring scalable workflows, reliable data and clear evidence.
• Oversee a risk-based third-party privacy program, including