Lead Privacy Consultant

Transamerica; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Transamerica is seeking a Lead Privacy Consultant to join our Privacy team. You will partner with business and technology to drive privacy by design, facilitate PIAs and DPIAs, and turn complex privacy requirements into practical solutions.

This role offers exposure to emerging technologies and global operations, demanding clear communication, attention to detail, and cross-functional collaboration. Applicants near key offices are preferred, with remote options considered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a business field or related experience.
• 8 years of privacy, data security, or related experience.
• Deep understanding of global privacy laws and frameworks (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, GLBA).
• Strong written and verbal communication, detail-oriented work product.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Transamerica's enterprise privacy by design playbook.
• Facilitate PIAs and DPIAs across domestic and international activities with clear findings.
• Manage workstreams, track tasks, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Translate privacy requirements into practical operational outcomes for business and tech teams.
• Identify privacy risks and provide remediation recommendations from PIAs and AI use cases.
• Produce clear risk summaries, assessments, and governance updates.
• Support notices, RoPAs, training, and privacy risk control framework activities.
• Collaborate with Technology, Product, Legal, Security and business units for timely execution.

Skills

Privacy by design

PIAs & DPIAs

Regulatory compliance

AI governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in business

Job description

About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Regulatory Compliance

About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.

Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.

We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What We Do

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include 1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors, 2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and 3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.* For more information, visit transamerica.com.

Job Description Summary

Join Transamerica’s growing Privacy team and put your privacy expertise to work on meaningful, high-visibility initiatives across the business. As a Lead Privacy Consultant, you will be a key contributor to our privacy by design program—partnering with business and technology teams, facilitating PIAs and DPIAs, and helping turn complex privacy requirements into practical solutions. This role offers the opportunity to broaden your experience across emerging technologies and global operations while helping strengthen a developing global privacy framework. We are looking for a collaborative, detail-oriented professional who communicates clearly, understands technology, asks thoughtful questions, and takes pride in producing high-quality work. Applicants located near key Transamerica offices are preferred, but remote candidates may also be considered.

Responsibilities

Job Description

• Support the development of Transamerica's enterprise privacy by design playbook, contributing subject matter expertise, drafting guidance materials, and helping translate privacy requirements into practical standards for business and technology teams
• Facilitate and review PIAs and DPIAs across domestic and international business activities, ensuring assessments are thorough, consistent, and produce clear, actionable findings and recommendations
• Manage assigned workstreams within privacy by design initiatives, tracking tasks, dependencies, and deliverables and escalating issues as appropriate
• Translate privacy requirements — including global privacy laws, technical standards, and enterprise risk appetite — into practical operational and business outcomes
• Identify, assess, and communicate privacy risks, dependencies, and remediation recommendations arising from PIAs, technology reviews, AI use cases, and vendor engagements
• Prepare clear, well-structured deliverables, including risk summaries, assessment reports, governance updates, and implementation recommendations
• Support broader privacy operations activities including but not limited to notices, records of processing activities (RoPAs), training enhancements, data subject access requests, process maturity initiatives, and the privacy risk control framework
• Contribute to team knowledge through work product quality, attention to detail, and willingness to share expertise and support colleagues
• Engage cross-functional stakeholders — including Technology, Product, Legal, Security, and business units — to gather information, drive follow-through, and support timely execution

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business field or equivalent experience
• 8 years of privacy, data security and/or other relevant experience
• Deep practical understanding of global privacy laws and frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, GLBA, and emerging international requirements, with the ability to apply regulatory obligations in a business and technology context
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to produce thorough, precise, and well-structured work product
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex privacy concepts clearly to technical, legal, and business audiences
• Ability to manage assigned work independently, maintain momentum, and drive tasks to completion in ambiguous or evolving environments
• Collaborative working style with a willingness to contribute across a range of team priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in business, law, technology, or risk
• 5 years of direct privacy experience with demonstrated expertise in privacy by design principles and privacy impact assessments
• CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, or comparable privacy certification; AI governance, compliance, risk, audit, or project management certification also valued
• Demonstrated experience facilitating and reviewing PIAs and DPIAs in complex enterprise environments
• Strong technical fluency, with the ability to engage meaningfully with technology, data architecture, AI systems, and cybersecurity concepts in the context of privacy risk
• Experience contributing to privacy by design programs or PIA frameworks in a large, complex organization
• Financial services experience

Working Conditions

• Hybrid-Office Environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays)

Compensation

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $120K - $140K annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Philadelphia, PA; Cedar Rapids, IA; Denver, CO). Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

Enterprise Technology

With more than 1,000 employees across the UK, US, Netherlands, Hungary, Spain, and Hong Kong, Enterprise Technology is a diverse, global team. Our experts work across areas such as application development, information security, infrastructure, data & analytics, risk & controls, program management, and architecture. We offer a wide range of career opportunities and are committed to supporting employee development.

Curiosity is the quality we value most. Much of our work involves solving complex problems, applying knowledge in new ways, and continuously improving how we operate. As technology evolves rapidly, we look for inquisitive people who are confident challenging the status quo and helping us drive change.

What We Offer

For eligible employees, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support both the personal and financial well-being of our employees.

Compensation Benefits

• Competitive Pay
• Bonus for Eligible Employees

Benefits Package

Benefits Package

• Pension Plan
• 401k Match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Insurance
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Career Training & Development Opportunities

Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits

• Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours annually for employees in their first year of service.
• Ten (10) paid holidays per year (typically mirroring the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) holidays).
• Be Well Company holistic wellness program, which includes Wellness Coaching and Reward Dollars
• Parental Leave – fifteen (15) days of paid parental leave per calendar year to eligible employees with at least one year of service at the time of birth, placement of an adopted child, or placement of a foster care child.
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Back-Up Care Program
• PTO for Volunteer Hours
• Employee Matching Gifts Program
• Employee Resource Groups
• Inclusion and Diversity Programs
• Employee Recognition Program
• Referral Bonus Programs

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe our commitment to diversity and inclusion creates a work environment filled with exceptional individuals. We’re thrilled to have been recognized for our efforts through the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index, Dave Thomas Adoption Friendly Advocate, and several Seramount lists, including the Inclusion Index, 100 Best Companies for Working Parents, Best Companies for Dads, and Top 75 Companies for Executive Women.

To foster a culture of inclusivity throughout our workforce, workplace, and marketplace, Transamerica offers a wide range of diversity and inclusion programs. This includes our company-sponsored, employee-driven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), which are formed around a shared interest or a common characteristic of diversity. ERGs are open to all employees. They provide a supportive environment to help us better appreciate our similarities and differences and understand how they benefit us all.

Giving Back

We believe our responsibilities extend beyond our corporate walls. That's why we created the Aegon Transamerica Foundation in 1994. Through a mix of financial grants and the volunteer efforts of our employees, the foundation supports nonprofit organizations focused on the things that matter most to our people in the communities where we live and work.

Transamerica’s Parent Company

Aegon acquired the Transamerica business in 1999. Since its start in 1844, Aegon has grown into an international company serving more than 23.9 million people across the globe.* It offers investment, protection, and retirement solutions, always with a clear purpose: Helping people live their best lives. As a leading global investor and employer, the company seeks to have a positive impact by addressing critical environmental and societal issues, with a focus on climate change and inclusion and diversity.

• As of December 31, 2023