Global Privacy Program Lead

Lululemon Athletica; Washington; Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health and dental benefits

Paid time off

Retirement plan matching

Parental top-up

Development programs and courses

Mentorship and leadership programs

Job summary

lululemon is seeking a Privacy Program Manager to drive privacy response processes and ensure ongoing compliance within our Global Privacy Program. You will collaborate with Security, Product, Marketing, Technology, and Legal to embed privacy-by-design principles across initiatives.

The role requires strong program-management skills, data-flow analysis, and the ability to lead cross-functional projects while advancing privacy initiatives and training across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and/or applicable experience in information technology, compliance, business administration or related discipline.
• PMP or CIPP/CIPM certification considered an asset.
• Experience as a project manager is strongly preferred.
• Strong leadership, sound judgment, critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Aptitude to learn and manage change.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to drive technical execution teams with competing priorities towards project objectives and timelines.
• Ability to successfully manage priorities within deadlines in a complex and rapidly evolving organization.
• Knowledge of retail environment an asset.
• 7-10+ years of project management/industry work experience would be ideal; but 4-5 years also acceptable.
• Familiarity with IT SDLC processes and compliance requirements such as PCI and SOX also ideal.

Responsibilities

• Conduct ongoing review, gap analysis and update of the current privacy program and policies to follow applicable data protection laws.
• Gather requirements from partners and produce clear, detailed project plans, including project goals, scope, approach, and overall task plan to provide transparency on critical path tasks.
• DSAR/Privacy Questionnaires process, including on-boarding and analysis.
• Analyze and understand data flows to identify solutions to current and future privacy issues.
• Maintain internal and external privacy policies and notices.
• Provide operational privacy by design recommendations.
• Manage cross-functional projects to implement improved privacy processes.
• Proactively research current privacy standards and future standards that are relevant to organization.
• Drive critical ongoing process improvements for the program.
• Create privacy initiatives and training, and cultivate a culture emphasis on data privacy.
• Manage and develop team members.
• Advise Legal - Privacy Counsels on operationalization of privacy requirements

Skills

Project management experience

Leadership

Communication

Adaptability

Technical execution leadership

Priority management

PM experience 4-10 years

IT SDLC & PCI/SOX

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/compliance/business

PMP or CIPP/CIPM certification (asset)

Job description

lululemon is seeking a Privacy Program Manager to drive privacy response processes and ensure ongoing compliance within our Global Privacy Program. You will collaborate with Security, Product, Marketing, Technology, and Legal to embed privacy-by-design principles across initiatives.

The role requires strong program-management skills, data-flow analysis, and the ability to lead cross-functional projects while advancing privacy initiatives and training across the organization.