Senior Director, Global Privacy & Data Protection

Position Summary:

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.

Reporting to the Chief Risk and Strategy Officer, this role will actively lead how privacy, data protection, AI governance, and responsible data use are embedded across Trulioo’s products, operations, commercial motions, and governed by leading practices. This is a senior leadership role for a privacy executive who can operate in scaling, agile environments and partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Security, Enterprise Risk, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success.

The ideal candidate brings extensive expertise in GDPR, U.S. state privacy laws, and Canadian privacy laws, with experience in emerging areas including, but not limited to, biometrics, AI, age verification, data retention, data classification, and emerging identity technologies.

This role is expected to leverage AI and emerging technologies to improve productivity, enhance decision-making, and continuously optimize how work is performed.

This will be a full-time, permanent position working on a hybrid model from one of our offices or fully remote.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Global Privacy Strategy & DPO

• 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, as needed, 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.
• Act as a strategic advisor on privacy and data protection implications as Trulioo expands into new operating regions, verticals, and expands the product catalog.
• Monitor global privacy developments and translate implications into practical guidance for products, operations, market expansion, and customer commitments.

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. Integrate privacy by design into product development, commercial contracting, customer onboarding, third-party management, enterprise risk management, and agile operating rhythms.
• 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.
• Develop practical reporting, metrics, and executive-level insights that create visibility into privacy risks, regulatory readiness, and program maturity.

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.
• Help shape responsible AI governance, including privacy impact analysis, consumer data use, automated processing, transparency, and controls for responsible product deployment.
• Lead or support negotiation of DPAs, SCCs, data transfer terms, privacy schedules, customer commitments, vendor terms, and partner arrangements.
• Support commercialization by validating privacy positioning, customer-facing claims, contractual commitments, and market-specific privacy requirements.
• Build privacy thought leadership that strengthens Trulioo’s credibility with customers, regulators, partners, and industry stakeholders.

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 organization.