Description
We're seeking an experienced Senior Privacy Program Manager to join Toast's Legal & Compliance team who will play a pivotal role in shaping and maintaining a world-class privacy program.
As part of the dynamic and collaborative Privacy team, you will lead efforts to operationalize privacy requirements across our global operations.
Responsibilities
- Global Privacy Program Management: Develop and maintain Toast's global privacy program, ensuring compliance with laws and best practices across the US, Canada, Europe, the UK, and other countries where Toast operates.
- DPA Enablement: Help triage our Procurement queue and provide a first pass assessment of privacy risk and vendor stance against our standard DPA using pre-defined risk thresholds and protocols in conjunction with LLMs.
- Privacy Rights: Continue to mature our privacy rights process and program, including driving efforts to further automate how requests are processed alongside our vendor, Ethyca, and internal business teams and developing SOPs for use in responding to privacy rights requests.
- Privacy Reviews: Maintain our existing Jira queue for privacy review requests and oversee and improve on automation to generate a first pass privacy assessment that attorneys can then refine/finalize.
- Operational Compliance & Risk Mitigation: Translate privacy requirements into actionable processes, develop and supplement privacy FAQs for different domains, manage privacy risk registers, and conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Training & Awareness & Data Governance: Develop and deliver privacy training programs, and collaborate on data governance frameworks for data classification and lifecycle management.
- Metrics & Reporting: Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure program effectiveness and provide regular reports to leadership.
Requirements
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or 8 years and a Master’s degree.
- 5+ years of relevant privacy experience.
- Comprehensive knowledge of global privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, etc.), and the ability to apply them practically in a business setting.
- A willingness to roll up your sleeves and help the team achieve its objectives without being overly concerned about the precise scope of your role.
- Ability to collaborate with technical teams on data flows, architectures, and system design.
- Strong project management skills, with the capacity to align privacy initiatives with business goals and manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts, and strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- A working knowledge of AI tools such as Claude, Gemini etc. and a willingness to use AI solutions for privacy program management.
Benefits
Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters' changing needs.