Hybrid Director, Privacy & Data Governance

FS Vector; Utah; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FS Vector is seeking a Privacy & Data Governance Lead (Manager or Director) in Salt Lake City, UT, with hybrid work options. The role oversees policy, classification, retention, and AI governance to ensure production systems meet privacy and compliance requirements.

The candidate will partner with Engineering, IT/Security, Legal, Risk, and Operations to implement governance across data flows, vendors, and data products, while supporting audits and regulatory exams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in privacy, data governance, security compliance, or adjacent work, with 3+ years in regulated sectors.
• Direct experience building or upgrading a privacy or data governance program.
• Working knowledge of U.S. privacy and recordkeeping obligations relevant to lending.
• Understanding of de-identification, pseudonymization, and deletion.
• Experience testing controls or supporting SOC 2, internal audit, or regulatory examinations.
• Ability to read configurations, write precise requirements, and track remediation.

Responsibilities

• Own data classification policy and governance of confidential and restricted data across systems, vendors, and data flows.
• Keep privacy policies, procedures, and standards aligned with law, partner requirements, and risk appetite.
• Run privacy impact assessments for new products, systems, vendors, and material changes.
• Lead the records program: retention schedules, legal holds, secure destruction, media sanitization.
• Define retention and deletion requirements for production environments and verify implementation.
• Write standards for generative AI use and review processes for vendors.
• Help define requirements for DLP and data discovery platforms.
• Test privacy and data controls in core systems, support SOC 2 audits and regulatory reviews.
• Report gaps and remediation, and build data-handling training for employees.

Skills

Privacy governance

Data governance

Security compliance

Policy writing

Auditing readiness

Job description

FS Vector is seeking a Privacy & Data Governance Lead (Manager or Director) in Salt Lake City, UT, with hybrid work options. The role oversees policy, classification, retention, and AI governance to ensure production systems meet privacy and compliance requirements.

The candidate will partner with Engineering, IT/Security, Legal, Risk, and Operations to implement governance across data flows, vendors, and data products, while supporting audits and regulatory exams.