Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to be a member of Goldman Sachs’ Global Privacy Office (GPO) in the Americans region. The successful candidate will work from Goldman Sachs’ Dallas office on multiple regional and global programs managed by the Global Privacy Office, to deliver on our privacy strategy and respond to critical regulatory deadlines, as well as to mature our existing privacy compliance program. This position will support matters globally, but with a particular focus on matters in the Americas region. The candidate will also play a key role in collaborating with colleagues across the firm to further build out the firm’s privacy program to address the evolving regulatory landscape, enhance divisional collaboration and increase cross-functional engagement.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a Privacy Vice President with excellent analytical, communication, program management and coordination skills to join the Global Privacy Office. This role will require you to develop a detailed knowledge of multiple areas within the firm and will include:

• Identifying and independently executing on opportunities to efficiently scale the firm’s global privacy program
• Supporting privacy risk assessment processes and other operational aspects of the firm’s privacy compliance program
• Managing and supporting cross-functional projects to implement privacy laws in partnership with Legal, Compliance, Engineering, Risk and Business teams
• Monitoring and reporting to senior management on the status of the privacy program
• Partnering with Engineering teams to identify and design new tools, or improve existing tools, that support the firm’s privacy compliance program
• Supporting the development and implementation of privacy program governance frameworks with key stakeholders in Operations, Compliance, Technology, Legal and Risk
• Driving accountability for privacy program components operated by the first line of defense
• Creating, reviewing, and revising privacy program policies and procedures
• Contributing to other activities within the Global Privacy Office where necessary

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or international equivalent
• Demonstrated program management experience within privacy or data protection programs, including regulatory implementation, control design, and operationalization across first and second lines of defense
• At least 7 years of work experience, with at least 5 of those working in the Privacy or Data Protection domain
• Experience with reviewing, advising and/or implementing programs to address privacy laws on a local and global level (e.g., CCPA, GLBA, CAN-SPAM, PIPEDA, GPDR, etc.)
• Financial services experience is a plus
• OneTrust experience
• CIPP Certification

Required Skills

• Highly motivated with the ability to work autonomously as well as in a team and collaboration-oriented environment
• Highly organized, attention to detail and excellent follow through skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; risk-based prioritization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively articulate complex regulatory requirements to stakeholders and dependent teams at all levels of the firm
• Able to coordinate activities with multiple interdependencies and to escalate items that are unresolved or at risk
• Comfortable working with incomplete information, to ask focused questions and rapidly gain an in-depth understanding of the current processes and compare and relate to similar situations
• Detailed problem tracking, resolutions and completion of all actions and issues by their deadlines