Privacy & AI Governance Lead

Clay; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Clay is seeking a Privacy Program Manager to build and run its privacy program, including AI governance. You will report to the Head of Product, Privacy & AI Legal, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Data Platform, and Security.

Create scalable processes, automate where possible, and guide teams through privacy considerations. You will drive records of processing, data inventories, and privacy notices while coordinating with Legal to ensure compliance across products and services.

Qualifications

• 6 to 8+ years building and running privacy programs in tech.
• Hands-on experience with privacy requests, data mapping, PIAs and DPIAs, vendor diligence.
• Working knowledge of GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and US state privacy laws.
• AI fluency: understanding how LLM features and agents use data.
• Technical fluency to follow data across systems and APIs and ask precise questions.
• Track record of building a program from scratch and making it stick.

Responsibilities

• Own the program plan with owners, dependencies, and 6–12 month outcomes.
• Maintain records of processing and set privacy requirements for the data inventory.
• Run PIAs, DPIAs, transfer assessments, and AI assessments.
• Integrate privacy into product development processes for fast, consistent answers.
• Run the operational side of AI governance and keep evidence current.

Skills

Privacy program management

Privacy operations

GDPR knowledge

AI governance

Technical fluency

Clear writing

Education

CIPM certification

Tools

Transcend

OneTrust

DataGrail

Job description

Clay is seeking a Privacy Program Manager to build and run its privacy program, including AI governance. You will report to the Head of Product, Privacy & AI Legal, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Data Platform, and Security.

Create scalable processes, automate where possible, and guide teams through privacy considerations. You will drive records of processing, data inventories, and privacy notices while coordinating with Legal to ensure compliance across products and services.