Director, Privacy Operations

FINRA • Tysons Corner, VA

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of Privacy Operations is a key member of Enterprise Data Privacy Office’s (EDPO) leadership team and is responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of the organization's privacy governance frameworks, policies, procedures, and controls. This includes directing the organization's Data Privacy initiatives, privacy assessments, data loss reporting, departmental privacy engagement, and issue identification and resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum ten (10) years of experience.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience working directly in data privacy roles, preferably in a regulated industry, required.
• Experience supervising and implementing large-scale processes or projects
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop staff.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting privacy compliance activities such as assessments, audits, and investigations to identify and mitigate risks.
• Experience managing and remediating privacy-related loss reports and incidents.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to present complex topics to diverse stakeholders.
• Confident public speaker able to defend privacy-related recommendations.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills to assess privacy risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Experience with privacy regulations, standards, and best practices.

Nice To Haves

• Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) or Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) preferred.
• Proficiency in creating and maintaining comprehensive risk registers a plus.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the escalation contact for privacy-related inquiries, requests, and audits from internal stakeholders and communicates complex privacy topics clearly and confidently to stakeholders at all levels.
• Leads the privacy assessment process, working across departments to identify, mitigate, and remediate privacy risks.
• Leads and manages privacy incident response operations, including investigations, incident management, and remediation of data loss events.
• Manages the department's internal and external relationships relating to privacy technology solutions used to document and record privacy activities.
• Leads the collaboration with stakeholders across the enterprise to ensure data management policies and technical controls supporting privacy objectives are properly tuned, serving as a strategic advisor to FINRA’s technology and data governance initiatives, translating complex privacy objectives into operational frameworks that enable innovation.
• Directs the establishment of and reporting on metrics to the Board and FINRA executive management team covering the performance of the privacy program.
• Responsible for identifying staffing, technology, and training investments to support enterprise privacy objectives, in alignment with the Privacy Operations budget and resource allocation.
• Demonstrates FINRA’s values.
• Collaborates, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Benefits

• comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
• basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal.
• immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match
• eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution
• tuition reimbursement
• commuter benefits
• adoption assistance
• backup family care
• surrogacy benefits
• employee assistance
• wellness programs
• 15 days of paid time off
• 5 personal days
• 9 sick days
• two volunteer service days
• military leave
• jury duty leave
• bereavement leave
• voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections
• care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment)
• childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment)
• nine paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director