Data & Privacy Program Manager

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software we empower over 200000 businesses worldwide including Brex Rippling Navan Qantas SHEIN and many more with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts payments spend management and treasury to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne we have a team of over 2000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price Visa Mastercard Robinhood Ventures Sequoia Salesforce Ventures DST Global and Lone Pine Capital Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If youre ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact accelerated learning and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking and youre motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.

Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.

About the Team
The Data & Privacy team at Airwallex is a global group of specialists within the Legal Risk & Compliance (LRC) function. We provide expert advice and build frameworks to comply with global privacy data protection data governance and AI governance legal requirements and best practices enabling the business to deliver safe resilient services to our customers. Our team partners closely with Product Engineering Information Security Legal Risk Compliance and other business units to ensure data privacy and AI governance is embedded in everything we do.

What Youll Do
As a Data & Privacy Program Manager based in Amsterdam (preferred) or London you will play a pivotal role in establishing maintaining and evolving Airwallexs global data protection and governance framework. Youll drive the development and implementation of privacy and data governance processes and tooling and enhance our existing practices. Youll work cross-functionally to support privacy and AI risk assessments processes privacy contracting processes data subject rights compliance and monitoring and data privacy incident response helping Airwallex meet its regulatory obligations and maintain customer trust.

Responsibilities:

• Establish maintain and continuously evolve the organisations data privacy framework and governance program.

• Develop and update privacy policies procedures and standards in line with global regulations (GDPR CCPA etc.).

• Support development of data governance processes in partnership with the Engineering and InfoSec including related to data tagging/cataloging data lineage and data roles and responsibilities.

• Translate privacy policies procedures and standards into practical repeatable workflows and controls embedded in tools like Slack Jira Confluence and privacy tooling.

• Configure maintain and continuously improve privacy processes and tooling (e.g. for DSR ROPA DPIA tools) and integrate them into existing Product Engineering Operations and Support processes.

• Support privacy risk assessment processes for new and existing products features and services recommending safeguards or design changes as needed.

• Support review and negotiation of data processing agreements and related processes with customers vendors and partners to ensure appropriate contractual protections.

• Deliver and maintain privacy training and awareness programs to foster a strong culture of privacy across the organisation.

• Support tracking of privacy and AI legal and regulatory changes and change-management of new requirements into existing privacy processes and tooling.

Who You Are:
Were looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6 years experience in privacy and data protection program management operations or engineering with strong knowledge of data protection and privacy regulations specifically the EU/UK GDPR.

• Masters degree in a relevant field such as Law or Information Security or equivalent experience;

• Strong technical skills configuring or administering privacy tooling (e.g. for DSR ROPA DPIA) and integrating them into BAU workflows; experience leveraging AI to streamline enhance and automate privacy workflows.

• Experience with data governance concepts requirements and tooling and a strong understanding of how data governance supports privacy governance.

• Experience translating data protection policies procedures and standards into concrete workflows and controls embedded in existing tools (e.g. Slack Jira privacy management software).

• Expertise in program management and working on cross-functional projects.

• Strong communicator; experience in translating complex privacy requirements to non-legal audiences; serves as the connective tissue between legal and engineering/product teams.

• A collaborative and empathetic mindset a good sense of humor and a keen understanding of how to work effectively with colleagues from different teams and backgrounds and in different geographies and timezones.

• Strong interest in financial services regulation and the fintech industry.

• Fluency in English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in payments fintech or a high-growth globally distributed company.

• Professional privacy certifications (such as CIPP CIPM AIGP).

• Ability to design AIassisted workflows (e.g. using agentic tools nocode/lowcode automation or APIs) to reduce manual effort while maintaining legal and compliance guardrails.

• Experience in a globally distributed company

Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters

To protect you from recruitment scams please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport) or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @ email address. Please apply only through or our official LinkedIn page.

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Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit qualifications competence and talent. We dont regard color religion race national origin sexual orientation ancestry citizenship sex marital or family status disability gender or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.

Required Experience:

Manager