Data Privacy Officer (GDPR / Compliance)

Location: Remote, United States
Job Type: Full-Time
Work Arrangement: Remote
Department: Compliance / Legal / Data Governance
Reports To: Chief Compliance Officer / General Counsel / Head of Risk & Compliance

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly responsible and detail-oriented Data Privacy Officer to manage privacy governance, regulatory compliance, and responsible data handling practices across business, analytics, technology, and AI-related operations. This role is responsible for helping the organization build and maintain strong privacy controls, support GDPR and other privacy compliance programs, guide lawful data use, and strengthen privacy governance across systems, workflows, vendors, and internal teams.

The ideal candidate has experience in privacy, legal advisory, compliance, or data governance environments and is comfortable working across legal, IT, product, HR, analytics, and operational functions. This person should be able to develop privacy policies, conduct privacy assessments, manage processing records, support breach response, advise on consent and retention matters, and help the organization handle personal data in a compliant and operationally practical way.

This is a remote USA-based role, suited for someone with strong privacy knowledge, sound judgment, and the ability to support privacy compliance in a structured, cross-functional, and business-aligned manner.

Key Responsibilities

Privacy Governance & Policy Management

• Develop, maintain, and enforce privacy policies, standards, controls, and procedures across the organization
• Support the design of a privacy governance framework that aligns regulatory requirements with practical business operations
• Help establish accountability for privacy-related responsibilities across departments, systems, and data workflows
• Maintain clear privacy documentation, control requirements, review records, and governance materials
• Contribute to stronger privacy maturity through structured processes, ownership clarity, and operational discipline

Privacy Compliance Program Support

• Support GDPR and other privacy compliance programs across the organization’s systems, data activities, and business functions
• Help interpret privacy obligations and translate them into actionable controls, procedures, and operational guidance
• Monitor privacy compliance activities tied to data collection, processing, storage, retention, transfer, sharing, and disposal
• Support internal privacy reviews, compliance checks, control validation, and evidence preparation
• Contribute to ongoing privacy readiness and continuous improvement across the compliance environment

Privacy Assessments & Data Workflow Review

• Conduct privacy assessments for products, platforms, systems, vendors, analytics initiatives, and internal data workflows
• Support DPIAs or similar privacy impact assessments for higher-risk processing activities where required
• Review how personal data moves across systems, teams, processes, and third parties to identify privacy risks and control gaps
• Evaluate product features, data uses, and operational changes for privacy impact before implementation where appropriate
• Help ensure privacy considerations are built into business and technology changes in a practical and timely way

Advisory on Lawful Data Handling

• Advise teams on lawful data collection, processing, storage, access, transfer, retention, and sharing practices
• Support stakeholders in understanding privacy requirements tied to employee data, customer data, vendor data, analytics data, and operational records
• Provide practical guidance to legal, IT, product, HR, analytics, and business teams on privacy obligations and acceptable handling practices
• Help ensure that data use decisions are aligned with privacy principles, business purpose, and applicable regulatory expectations
• Promote privacy-aware decision-making across the organization

Consent, Retention, Breach & Vendor Privacy Management

• Support privacy operations related to consent handling, data retention, deletion requirements, breach coordination, and vendor privacy reviews
• Help maintain structured approaches for consent records, lawful basis tracking, retention controls, and privacy-related requests
• Assist in coordinating privacy breach response activities, documentation, internal escalation, and follow-up actions where needed
• Review third-party vendors and service providers for privacy-related controls, processing terms, and handling practices
• Contribute to stronger privacy oversight across third-party relationships and data lifecycle management

Records, Audit & Documentation

• Maintain records of processing activities, privacy assessments, policy documentation, audit evidence, and governance records
• Support internal and external audits, regulatory inquiries, customer due diligence, or compliance reviews related to privacy
• Keep privacy documentation accurate, organized, current, and accessible to relevant stakeholders
• Help improve privacy traceability through disciplined documentation and record-keeping practices
• Support reporting on privacy risks, review status, incidents, remediation actions, and control maturity

Cross-Functional Privacy Coordination

• Work closely with legal, IT, product, HR, security, analytics, procurement, compliance, and operations teams to support privacy governance
• Help embed privacy requirements into product design, system implementation, data workflows, HR operations, vendor management, and reporting activities
• Support stakeholder awareness and coordination around privacy risks, obligations, deadlines, and control actions
• Assist teams in resolving privacy issues and escalating material concerns appropriately
• Contribute to a stronger culture of responsible data handling across the organization

AI Privacy & Emerging Data Governance Support

• Support privacy review of analytics, automation, and AI-related use cases involving personal or sensitive data
• Help assess privacy implications of model inputs, outputs, profiling, data minimization, retention, and transparency requirements
• Work with business and technical teams to ensure AI-related processing considers privacy principles and governance expectations
• Contribute to responsible data governance practices where advanced analytics or AI systems are involved
• Help identify emerging privacy risks tied to new technologies and data-driven operations

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Information Security, Compliance, Data Governance, Business, or a related field
• Proven experience in privacy, compliance, legal advisory, data governance, or regulatory support roles
• Strong knowledge of data protection principles, privacy controls, and operational compliance practices
• Ability to work cross-functionally with legal, IT, product, HR, analytics, and business teams
• Experience developing or supporting privacy policies, procedures, assessments, or governance documentation
• Strong understanding of lawful data handling, documentation requirements, and privacy risk management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• High attention to detail and sound professional judgment
• Ability to manage sensitive information responsibly and confidentially
• Strong organizational and follow-up discipline in a remote environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GDPR, CCPA, DPIAs, DPO-related functions, or cross-border data transfer issues
• Familiarity with privacy issues across digital products, cloud systems, HR data, vendor ecosystems, or analytics environments
• Understanding of AI privacy risks, automated decision-making considerations, and governance implications
• Exposure to privacy rights handling, breach coordination, vendor assessments, and records of processing activities
• Experience supporting regulated environments, multinational operations, SaaS businesses, or data-intensive organizations
• Familiarity with privacy frameworks, control mapping, and audit readiness practices
• Relevant certifications such as CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, ISO 27701, or similar are a plus
• Prior experience working with compliance, information security, legal operations, or governance teams is advantageous

Core Skills

• Privacy governance
• GDPR compliance
• Data protection
• Privacy policy development
• Privacy assessments
• DPIA support
• Records of processing activities
• Consent and retention management
• Vendor privacy review
• Breach response coordination
• Cross-border data awareness
• Privacy documentation
• Compliance advisory
• Data governance
• Cross-functional coordination

Key Competencies

• Strong ethical judgment
• High attention to detail
• Clear and professional communication
• Strong documentation discipline
• Ability to balance legal requirements with operational practicality
• Sound risk awareness
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Confidentiality and discretion
• Structured and methodical working style
• Ownership and accountability

Success Metrics

• Strong privacy governance and policy discipline across the organization
• Timely and accurate support for GDPR and related privacy compliance obligations
• Well-maintained privacy records, assessments, and documentation
• Effective guidance to teams on lawful data handling and privacy controls
• Improved privacy readiness across products, systems, and data workflows
• Strong vendor privacy review and data lifecycle oversight
• Positive audit, compliance, and stakeholder feedback on privacy support effectiveness

Working Conditions

• Fully remote role based in the United States
• Standard business hours aligned with U.S. time zones
• Frequent collaboration with legal, IT, security, product, HR, analytics, procurement, and compliance teams through virtual meetings and governance workflows
• May support multiple privacy assessments, compliance initiatives, vendor reviews, or policy workstreams at the same time