American Express is looking to embed privacy into daily operations, design, products, and processes to manage privacy risk across business units and ensure alignment with organizational best practices.
Requirements
- Demonstrable knowledge of either the GDPR, CCPA or GLBA
- Knowledge of non-US/European Privacy and Privacy adjacent regulations
- Prior experience with privacy-related processes across an Enterprise or local level for a financial services company
- Prior experience using enterprise-thinking to quickly identify areas of improvement
Responsibilities
- Assist with embedding privacy into daily operations, design, products, and processes
- Support stakeholders in effective identification, assessment, mitigation or privacy risk across business units
- Partner across second and third lines of defense to align controls and audit readiness
- Serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders, helping them implement privacy requirements
- Work with partners in the Global Privacy Center of Excellence to facilitate enterprise-wide privacy risk management in alignment with organizational best practices
- Provide guidance in managing privacy risk to drive enterprise continuity across different regions and business units
- Provide support in managing privacy risk across cases including product development, AI, third-party, cross border transfers, regulatory exams, second-line effective challenge, and audits
Other
- High degree of organization, individual initiative and personal accountability and resiliency
- Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to lead, engage, influence, and encourage partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
- Proven ability to manage multiple demands successfully within a matrixed organization
- Track record of creating and leading strong cross-functional teams
- Enjoy solving large and complicated problems
- Ability to maintain a positive, can-do’ attitude
- 5+ years of experience within a Privacy risk management or oversight function
- Prior Financial Services or Banking Industry experience
- Prior experience with driving results in a fast-paced environment often with significant ambiguity and needing to make decisions with less than perfect information
- Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions
