Privacy Counsel

Company Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their life easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.

Job Description

Do you love taking on big challenges? Do you have a detailed knowledge of privacy and a passion for innovation?
Our Global Privacy team is part of the legal tribe and supports teams throughout Wise in meeting corporate standards for protecting the privacy and security of our customers. We are looking for a talented privacy expert to join our growing team. 

You will work directly with business and engineering teams to design innovative privacy solutions for products, as well as with legal, compliance and risk teams to support exciting new projects and partnerships 

Reporting to the Global Head of Privacy, you will be a motivated self-starter, ready to take ownership of topics from Day 1 with genuine autonomy - one of the things that makes Wise different and exciting. 

You’ll be faced with a huge variety of privacy challenges and have the opportunity to be recognised as an expert on cutting-edge topics in a high growth fast moving Fintech

Along the way, you’ll benefit from the support of a tight-knit Privacy team, the wider Legal tribe and the other teams at Wise - everyone wants to help you live your best life at Wise and contribute to the Wise Mission.

What You’ll Work On

Once you are in the role you will:

• Support global teams in ensuring compliance with data protection and privacy laws while enabling data driven innovation.

• Support all key business areas (including Send, Multi-currency account and Assets) to ensure data privacy issues are considered at the outset of new projects/initiatives (Privacy by Design)

• Advise on the privacy aspects of our arrangements with vendors and partners, including contractual arrangements 

• Support expansion activities for launching Wise products and services in new jurisdictions

• Develop, implement and enforce policies and procedures to ensure compliance with regulations

• Stay abreast of evolving data protection requirements (including GDPR, UK GDPR, LGPD, CCPA), and translate them into actionable business requirements

• Support implementation of the Wise AI Governance framework, monitor emerging AI regulations and support associated regulatory change initiatives

• Develop and deliver Privacy training

• Support periodic audits of data protection and privacy compliance.

• Assist with the investigation, resolution and reporting of data privacy complaints and breaches, liaising as appropriate with data protection regulators globally

• Ensuring appropriate and timely escalation of key risks and issues, advising as appropriate on remediation plans. 

Qualifications

To thrive in this role, you will be a self-starter, a great influencer and communicator, and have a love of learning. You will be comfortable working in grey areas and making judgement calls at speed. You will be obsessed with detail and happy handling competing priorities and differences of opinion:

• Qualified lawyer with 3-4 years experience in data privacy

• Hands-on privacy compliance experience in a global environment.

• Detailed knowledge and experience in Data Protection and Privacy laws and regulations, including in EU/UK GDPR, the DPA 2018 and the UK PECR.

• Familiarity with privacy by design methodologies 

• Able to use a range of communication and influencing techniques to successfully negotiate, collaborate or effect change, with stakeholders at all levels and across multiple jurisdictions. 

• Self-starter, confident working in a distributed environment.

• A team player with an enthusiastic, positive and proactive mind-set, willing to support teams in achieving their goals and objectives.

• Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks. 

Desirable

• Working knowledge of financial services regulation and experience of privacy in a financial services environment

• Experience of working with high growth companies 

• Relevant privacy qualification, such as CIPM, CIPP or equivalent.

• Knowledge of the existing and evolving US and Australian laws and regulations.

• Demonstrated experience of relevant technologies including data anonymisation, artificial intelligence and familiarity with ethical frameworks, data governance and accountability 

• Familiarity with data analytics and computer science.

Additional Information

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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