Bulge Bracket Investment Banks

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**Vice President - Privacy Governance Strategy Lead** Lead and advance privacy governance strategies across a global organization, fostering data responsibility. As a senior individual contributor, design policies, metrics, and controls aligned with relevant privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA). Collaborate with business, technology, and compliance teams to integrate governance into data processes and product development. Drive execution of the Privacy Governance Uplift Program with clear milestones and executive-level reporting. Leverage deep expertise in privacy and data governance, financial services knowledge, and a track record of influencing senior stakeholders.

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Country: United States

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Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States

Join a team that helps strengthen how privacy governance is designed and embedded across a complex, global organization. You will work across business, technology, data, legal, and compliance partners to translate regulatory expectations into practical, scalable controls. This role offers high visibility, meaningful enterprise impact, and the opportunity to shape governance capabilities that support responsible data use. If you enjoy bringing structure to ambiguity and influencing outcomes through partnership, this role provides that platform.

As a Privacy Governance Strategy Lead (Vice President) in the Privacy Office, you will lead the Privacy Governance Uplift Program and help embed privacy governance frameworks across the enterprise. You will design and advance policies, standards, metrics, and controls aligned to applicable privacy regulations and industry frameworks. You will partner with stakeholders across business, technology, data, legal, and compliance to integrate privacy governance into key processes. You will deliver clear executive reporting and actionable recommendations that advance governance maturity and reduce risk.This is a senior individual contributor role with program leadership responsibilities. You will operate in a matrixed environment, influence without authority, and drive progress across multiple workstreams with measurable outcomes. Success in this role requires strong privacy and data governance expertise, disciplined program execution, and the ability to communicate complex topics to senior audiences.

Job responsibilities:

Lead the firmwide Privacy Governance Uplift Program, including roadmap development, milestone tracking, stakeholder alignment, and executive reporting

Design and implement scalable privacy governance frameworks, policies, standards, metrics, and controls aligned to applicable privacy regulations

Partner with business, technology, data, legal, and compliance stakeholders to embed privacy governance into data lifecycle management, product development, and third-party processes

Develop governance maturity assessments, gap analyses, and remediation plans to strengthen privacy governance capabilities

Drive initiatives to integrate privacy and data governance, including records of processing activities, data minimization, and consent management

Prepare and deliver program status, risk indicators, and strategic recommendations for senior leadership and governance forums

Monitor regulatory developments and translate changes into actionable governance enhancements

Facilitate cross-functional working groups to align priorities, resolve issues, and accelerate execution

Mentor and support junior team members on privacy governance deliverables and best practices

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Demonstrated experience in privacy, data governance, compliance, or operational risk within regulated data environments

Demonstrated experience within financial services, including familiarity with enterprise data management and relevant compliance obligations

Proven ability to build and execute multi-workstream programs with clear milestones, measurable outcomes, and executive-level reporting

Strong knowledge of global privacy regulations and governance frameworks (for example, GDPR, California privacy laws, and recognized privacy frameworks)

Experience designing and implementing policies, standards, controls, and metrics in a complex organization

Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across business, legal, technology, data, and risk functions

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex requirements in practical terms

Bachelors degree

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Advanced degree in Law, Business, Information Management, or a related field

Privacy certification (CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, or equivalent)

Experience leading governance uplift, transformation, or regulatory remediation programs at a large financial institution

Experience with data governance or privacy tooling (for example, OneTrust, Collibra, or Informatica)

Familiarity with enterprise data management concepts, including data lineage, data cataloging, and metadata management

Lead a firmwide privacy governance uplift program and embed scalable controls across the enterprise.

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