Job SummaryWe are seeking an analytical, systematic, and highly detail-oriented Privacy Specialist to join our regional corporate governance, risk management, and data compliance practice. In this critical professional role, you will be a core technical owner responsible for managing day-to-day data protection lifecycles, leading comprehensive Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), tracking information mapping workflows, and executing routine compliance audits across all business channels.Operating at the intersection of our backend software engineering squads, product management units, corporate legal teams, and executive leadership, you will translate complex regulatory frameworks into clear, compliant operational blueprints. The ideal candidate will combine strong data investigative precision with exceptional professional communication skills to systematically eliminate workflow exceptions, manage information privacy risks, and protect structural institutional integrity.
Key Responsibilities
- Privacy Framework Administration: Lead the day-to-day administrative execution, tracking, and maintenance of our localized data privacy policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and user access controls.
- Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA): Coordinate, manage, and systematically execute comprehensive PIAs and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for new software tools, system configurations, and automated workflows.
- Data Mapping & Inventory Control: Map and audit data flows, information collection channels, cross-border transmission logs, and data processing lifecycles to maintain an exhaustive data inventory register.
- Incident Lifecycle Coordination: Manage and log data breach response workflows, leading root-cause failure diagnostics, compiling evidentiary files, and coordinating necessary regulatory report filings.
- Vendor & Third-Party Risk Assessment: Review and evaluate the data privacy profiles and security setups of external suppliers and cloud platforms, ensuring absolute alignment with corporate information safety guidelines.
- Capability Building & Employee Training: Design and deploy robust data privacy awareness modules, interactive system briefings, and compliance scorecards to embed a data-first culture across business units.
- Statutory Compliance & Data Governance: Enforce rigid compliance with regional statutory mandates and corporate information benchmarks, ensuring all digital platforms and client registries strictly comply with the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) [Singapore] and related global data frameworks (such as GDPR).
Requirements
- Education: Minimum Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Law, Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Corporate Governance, Business Administration, or a related quantitative professional discipline. Professional data privacy credentials (such as CIPP/A, CIPM, CIPT, or CDMP certifications) are highly valued.
- Technical Proficiency: High competency in advanced Microsoft Office Suite applications (specifically Excel for intricate compliance metrics tracking, audit tables, and data parsing templates) alongside practical experience navigating enterprise risk management (ERM) portals, data cataloging infrastructure, or unified digital records platforms.
- Experience: Prior hands-on experience in a data privacy specialist, data protection executive, compliance analyst, or information security consultant role—preferably within an enterprise SaaS provider, technology consultancy network, corporate advisory firm, or multi-market financial ecosystem—is required. Fast-learning candidates with robust practical portfolios are welcome.
- Communication: Exceptional verbal and written English communication skills; professional etiquette and an assertive, collaborative stakeholder engagement style to present structured data narratives to corporate directors with extreme diplomacy.
- Core Competencies: Outstanding structural logic, sharp analytical problem-solving capabilities under tight deployment deadlines, intense attention to detail, and a resilient, process-driven mindset.
Pay: $7,500.00 - $9,200.00 per month
Work Location: In person