Senior Data Privacy Manager

Overview

In this role you will lead data privacy across the business, shaping risk-based frameworks and partnering with product, engineering, and operations to enable responsible data use. You’ll mentor the Data Privacy Associate and ensure privacy decisions are evidence-based and credible. You’ll work with senior stakeholders to embed privacy early in initiatives and drive automated improvements where possible. This is a chance to impact how data drives products while maintaining customer trust in a regulated fintech environment.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid role with London office 2-3 days a week
• opportunity to work from abroad up to 120 days per year
• focus on work-life balance
• flexible working arrangements
• culture of inclusion and DE&I
• career development and mentoring

Responsibilities

• Turn complex privacy questions into clear, proportionate recommendations to enable progress
• Build and embed a risk-based data privacy framework and view of risk appetite
• Partner with data and technology teams on data-use and data-governance decisions
• Lead responses to significant privacy issues with well-evidenced conclusions
• Develop and mentor the Data Privacy Associate through standards and problem-solving exposure
• Create trusted relationships across the business to involve privacy early in projects
• Identify manual privacy processes suitable for automation
• Represent the first-line privacy perspective with senior stakeholders

Key requirements

• Substantial practical data privacy experience with strong UK GDPR knowledge
• Ability to balance privacy rights, customer protection, business objectives and residual risk
• Ability to explain complex privacy issues to non-specialists and make defensible recommendations
• Experience leading or shaping privacy frameworks, governance, or operating models
• Comfort with ambiguity and ownership of difficult problems independently
• Proven ability to build cross-functional relationships with product, technology, operations, legal, risk and security
• Experience mentoring or developing others and creating clear standards

• Strong collaboration
• Clear communication
• Judgment and pragmatism
• Privacy by design and data governance
• Risk-based privacy management
• Regulatory compliance knowledge (UK GDPR)

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