# Senior Data Privacy Manager

**Company**: Zopa
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Employee - Permanent
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Data Privacy Manager to join our Data Privacy team within Zopa's Operational Risk and Compliance function.

As Senior Data Privacy Manager, you will be the senior first-line privacy lead across the business. You will line-manage a Data Privacy Associate and partner with Engineering, Technology, Operations, Legal, Risk and Information Security on high-impact product, data and operational questions.

Key responsibilities:

- Turn complex privacy questions into clear, proportionate recommendations that enable responsible progress.

- Help to build and embed a risk-based framework for data privacy risk, including a usable view of risk appetite.

- Partner with data and technology teams on complex data-use and data-governance decisions.

- Lead the response to significant privacy issues and ensure decisions are well evidenced.

- Develop our Data Privacy Associate, through mentoring, standards and exposure to complex problem-solving.

- Create trusted relationships across the business so privacy is involved early, not at the last minute.

- Identify manual privacy processes that can be simplified or automated.

- Represent the first-line privacy perspective credibly with senior stakeholders.

Requirements:

- Substantial practical data privacy experience, with strong working knowledge of UK GDPR and its enforcement context.

- Sound judgement to balance privacy rights, customer protection, business objectives and residual risk.

- Ability to explain complex privacy issues clearly to non-specialists and make credible, defensible recommendations.

- Experience leading or shaping privacy frameworks, governance or operating models.

- Comfortable working through ambiguity and taking ownership of difficult problems independently.

- Ability to build constructive relationships with product, technology, operations, legal, risk and security partners.

- Experience managing, mentoring or developing others and creating an environment of clear standards and support.

Added bonus:

- Experience in fintech, technology, banking or another regulated environment.

- Experience of automated decision-making systems with significant or legal effects.

- Knowledge of privacy considerations across AI model training, prompting and outputs.

- Experience improving efficiency through automation of privacy processes.

- Legal, operational-risk or dedicated data-protection qualifications.

At Zopa, we value flexible ways of working. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week. You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!

## Skills

### Required
- UK GDPR
- data privacy
- risk management
- governance
- compliance

### Nice to have
- fintech
- technology
- banking
- automated decision-making systems
- AI model training

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