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.