VP, Global Privacy – Data Protection Officer

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🕒 April 24

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Vice President

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Saviynt

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $130M Private Equity Round on 2021-09

SaaS • Cybersecurity • Enterprise

Saviynt is a leading provider of cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions. Their platform, known as the Identity Cloud, offers comprehensive identity governance, administration, and application access governance. Saviynt's solutions focus on secure identity management, ensuring compliance, modernizing legacy systems, and supporting multi-cloud environments. They serve a wide range of industries including healthcare, financial services, and government sectors. Leveraging AI/ML, Saviynt provides in-depth insights and analytics for enhanced identity security. They are recognized for their robust capabilities in identity governance and administration, helping organizations to efficiently manage and protect employee, contractor, partner, and machine identities.

📋 Description

• Lead a modern data privacy program across AI infrastructure, cloud and SaaS platforms • Design, implement, and evolve a scalable global data privacy framework based on ISO 27701 and other international standards. • Serve as the subject matter expert on current and emerging global and regional privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, LGPD, DPDP, PDPA, and APPI. • Oversee and maintain certification and compliance with the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). • Conduct and oversee Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for new and existing high-risk products, vendors, and internal processes. • Collaborate with Engineering, Product and other cross-functional teams to ensure that privacy controls are appropriately incorporated into the Product or other business applications. • Lead the privacy component of external audits (SOC2, ISO) and represent Saviynt’s privacy posture during customer-facing due diligence and security reviews. • Partner with the Legal team to draft, review, and negotiate Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and privacy related clauses in vendor and customer contracts. • Evaluate the privacy practices of third-party processors to ensure they meet Saviynt’s data protection requirements. • Participate in Incident Response efforts and Team and drive privacy related impact assessments, and other related response actions. • Ability to translate complex regulations and legal mandates into clear, actionable guidance for product managers and engineers to consume. • Establish and operate a Privacy Incident Reporting and Response process to address any Privacy incidents that might occur in various geographic regions. • Oversee the end-to-end process for Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) and the "Right to be Forgotten" across all jurisdictions. • Build and deliver high-impact privacy awareness programs tailored to different departments.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Law, Information Security, Data Protection, or a related field. • Extensive progressive experience in data privacy, data protection, or legal compliance or related areas. • Multiple years in a senior leadership role managing global privacy programs preferably in a SaaS or high-growth tech environment. • Proven track record of managing cross-border data transfer mechanisms and navigating conflicting regional privacy laws. • Ability to translate complex regulations and legal mandates into clear, actionable guidance for product managers and engineers to consume. • Experience presenting privacy roadmaps and security postures to enterprise- level customers and stakeholders.Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to assess risk appetite versus regulatory requirements.

🏖️ Benefits

• Saviynt is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome everyone to our team.