Global Privacy & Data Protection Leader

Confidential; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential in the United States seeks a Director of Data Protection & Privacy to lead enterprise-wide privacy programs, frameworks, and governance. You will drive global privacy initiatives, partner with Legal, IT, and business leadership, and oversee risk assessments, training, third-party privacy, and AI governance to ensure compliant operations across technology environments.

The role requires 10+ years of privacy experience, including multinational exposure, and the ability to translate

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience, including 5-7 years in a privacy role with a multinational organization.
• Experience in SaaS, cloud software, or another similar technology environment with customer-facing privacy, security, compliance, or trust responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and overseeing enterprise-wide privacy programs, risk assessments, policies, training, privacy by design, and translating regulatory requirements into practical processes for technology and business teams.
• Experience leading SOC 2 Type II readiness and audit activities, including coordination with independent third-party assessors, evidence management, control-owner follow-up, audit response, remediation tracking, and continuous compliance monitoring.
• Deep knowledge of applicable federal, state, and international privacy laws, regulatory requirements, industry standards, and privacy practices, including sector-specific privacy requirements and emerging AI governance and privacy expectations.
• Experience leveraging AI responsibly to improve privacy processes and outcomes.
• Ability to provide guidance across the organization, exercise independent judgment, establish procedures and guidelines, and partner effectively with Legal, Information Security, and business leadership.

Responsibilities

• Assess, continuously improve, and oversee the organization's enterprise-wide global privacy program, including the program roadmap and priorities, privacy risk assessments, and the design and operationalization of privacy policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.
• Partner across Legal, Technology, Information Security, and business stakeholders on all aspects of the privacy program, translating privacy requirements into practical guidance that supports risk-based decisions and consistent implementation.
• Develop and deliver privacy training and awareness programs across the organization, ensuring the team remains current on evolving obligations and best practices.
• Maintain privacy management tools and records and oversee third-party privacy and related service providers.
• Monitor applicable privacy laws, regulatory requirements, industry standards, and emerging AI governance developments and translate relevant changes into clear guidance, processes, and training.
• Partner with business unit leaders and Legal to assess and manage privacy risks associated with the collection, protection, transfer, use, and retention of regulated data.
• Recommend contractual, operational, and technical safeguards that minimize privacy compliance risk.
• Provide privacy subject-matter input on RFPs and vendor and customer agreements involving regulated data, including data-processing terms and privacy requirements.
• Support incident assessment, communications, regulatory analysis, remediation, and post-incident recommendations.
• Use AI, automation, templates, and exception-based review to minimize repetitive work.
• Lead the vendor privacy compliance program, including due diligence, risk assessments, compliance with privacy-related contractual requirements, and ongoing monitoring of third-party service providers.
• Lead the organization's internal SOC 2 Type II compliance and audit-readiness program. Coordinate readiness planning and control-owner responsibilities; oversee evidence collection, auditor requests, findings, remediation, and continuous monitoring to help ensure business operations and security programs continue to meet SOC 2 requirements.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Privacy program management

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Risk assessment

AI governance awareness

Vendor management

Auditing readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Privacy platforms

Job description

Confidential in the United States seeks a Director of Data Protection & Privacy to lead enterprise-wide privacy programs, frameworks, and governance. You will drive global privacy initiatives, partner with Legal, IT, and business leadership, and oversee risk assessments, training, third-party privacy, and AI governance to ensure compliant operations across technology environments.

The role requires 10+ years of privacy experience, including multinational exposure, and the ability to translate