Privacy Manager
About The Position
BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, delivering custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013, we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies, BitGo serves thousands of institutions, including many of the industry's top brands, exchanges, and platforms, and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy, BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian, and staking provider, in the world. For more information, visit www.bitgo.com. Partnering with BitGo Legal Department to build a global privacy program and execution for all internal and external privacy needs and requests. Privacy is an explicit, designated Security responsibility. BitGo is global and needs a single, accountable owner to operationalize privacy, reduce reliance on contractors, and meet regulatory requirements.
Requirements
- 7 or more years with proven ability to build and run a privacy program with operational responsibility and hands-on execution of privacy requests at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a high-autonomy individual contributor in a lean environment.
- Strong experience partnering with attorneys and translating legal requirements into operational controls.
- Working knowledge of global privacy regulatory expectations, including but not limited to GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, LGPD, PIPEDA, and how to implement them in practical workflows.
- Strong technical fluency: systems, data flows, access control concepts, logging, and incident handling collaboration.
- Excellent writing and documentation discipline (regulator-ready and audit-ready records).
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience formally serving as a Data Protection Officer.
- Experience in financial services, payments, custody, or other highly regulated environments.
- Experience building privacy workflows in ticketing and documentation systems and producing evidence packages for audits and regulators.
Responsibilities
- Run privacy request operations end-to-end
- Serve as the Data Protection Officer where required by law
- Lead the preparation and submission of mandatory data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) and/or privacy risk assessments (PRAs) to supervisory authorities when required by law.
- Partner with Legal in lock step
- Build and maintain core privacy program governance (lean but audit-ready)
- Vendor and procurement privacy
- Personal data incident support
- Metrics and continuous improvement
- Oversee the formal creation and maintenance of the Record of Processing Activities (ROPA), including its periodic review and updates to ensure compliance with Article 30 of the GDPR (or equivalent local mandates).
Benefits
- Competitive base salary, bonus and stock options
- 100% company paid health insurance for employee, partner and dependents
- Up to 4% 401k company match
- Paid parental leave, Paid vacation
- Free commuter/parking pass
- Free custom lunches, dinners and snacks
- Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
- Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
