# Senior Director, Global Privacy & Data Protection

**Company**: Trulioo
**Location**: Dublin, Ireland
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Trulioo is seeking a commercially minded and execution-oriented Senior Director, Global Privacy & Data Protection to lead our global privacy strategy, data protection program, and designated Data Protection Officer.

**What You'll Be Doing:**

- Build and lead Trulioo's global privacy and data protection strategy across priority markets, products, customers, and operating environments.

- Serve as Trulioo's designated Data Protection Officer for Europe, providing independent, credible, and commercially practical advice on GDPR and related obligations.

- Advise executive leadership on privacy risk, regulatory change, customer expectations, and strategic trade-offs tied to product innovation and market expansion.

- Represent Trulioo in privacy-related engagements with regulators, enterprise customers, industry groups, and other external stakeholders.

**Privacy Program Operations & Governance**

- Mature Trulioo's privacy program, including PIAs, DPIAs, records of processing, data subject rights, vendor privacy reviews, and cross-border transfer mechanisms.

- Own and evolve key privacy and data governance policies, including data retention, data classification, information classification and protection, data handling, and responsible data use.

- Lead privacy incident readiness and response, including investigation support, breach assessment, regulatory notification analysis, remediation, and post-incident improvement.

**Commercial Enablement, Product, & Engineering Advisor**

- Partner with Product and Engineering to embed privacy by design into agile product development, architecture decisions, data flows, and release processes.

- Provide guidance on privacy risks tied to identity verification, fraud prevention, biometrics, document verification, data enrichment, AI, machine learning, and emerging identity technologies.

- Serve as a senior privacy advisor to Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Solutions, and Legal in support of enterprise due diligence, RFPs, audits, and strategic customer engagements.

**Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence**

- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing privacy team with strong judgment, business orientation, and operational discipline.

- Create clear decision-making frameworks that allow teams to move quickly while managing privacy and data protection risk effectively.

- Foster a culture of responsible innovation, practical risk management, and accountable data use across the organisation.

**What You'll Bring:**

- 15+ years of experience in privacy, data protection, technology law, regulatory advisory, or related legal and risk leadership roles.

- Extensive expertise in GDPR, European data protection expectations, U.S. state privacy laws, and Canadian privacy laws.

- Demonstrated ability to serve as a senior privacy leader or Data Protection Officer in a complex, global technology environment.

- Experience advising Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, and go-to-market teams on privacy by design, data protection risk, product launches, and customer-facing commitments.

## Skills

### Required
- GDPR
- U.S. state privacy laws
- Canadian privacy laws
- data protection
- privacy by design
- PIAs
- DPIAs
- data mapping
- transfer mechanisms
- DPAs
- SCCs
- vendor risk
- data subject rights
- retention
- privacy incident response

### Nice to have
- RegTech
- FinTech
- identity verification
- fraud prevention
- payments
- financial services
- enterprise SaaS
- AI governance
- responsible AI programs
- model governance
- data ethics frameworks
- information security
- data governance
- cybersecurity
- enterprise risk
- public-company readiness programs

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