Director, Data Privacy & AI Governance

Job-:
Generalist

Location:

Washington, DC, United States;
New York, NY, United States;
Chicago, IL, United States;
San Francisco, CA, United States;
Los Angeles, CA, United States;
Dallas, TX, United States;
Houston, TX, United States;
Cleveland, OH, United States;
Columbus, OH, United States;
Indianapolis, IN, United States

Schedule:

Full time Posted:
Closes:

Job Summary:

BDO is seeking a Director to join BDO's Cyber Trust & Transformation practice as a senior advisor and hands-on engagement leader across data privacy, data governance, AI governance, and digital safety. The role will lead and execute services ranging from strategy, risk assessments, and regulatory readiness through program and policy development, operating-model design, technology implementation, remediation, co-sourced and outsourced program leadership, and managed services.

This leader will advise multinational and domestic clients on complex data, cyber regulatory, artificial intelligence, and cross-border data issues while translating legal and regulatory obligations into practical governance, scalable processes, controls, and technology solutions. The Director is responsible for maintaining and expanding client relationships, creating proposals for new client opportunities, managing complex work streams with limited oversight, delivering high-quality work, leading multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring engagements are delivered on time and on budget.

The role will also develop BDO professionals and capabilities in these domains and collaborate across BDO's broader cyber, AI, data, risk, legal, and industry teams to drive integrated solutions and continued enhancement of BDO's services.

Job Duties:

Serves as a trusted advisor to client boards, C-suite executives, privacy, data, AI, legal, technology, and business leaders on data privacy, data governance, AI governance, digital safety, cyber regulation, and responsible data use Leads client development and hands-on delivery of complex domestic and global engagements, including assessments, regulatory readiness, program and policy development, operating-model design, remediation, transformation, technology implementation, and managed services

Designs, establishes, operates, and enhances privacy, data governance, AI governance, and digital safety programs, including governance, policies, inventories, notices and consent, rights requests, impact assessments, third-party risk, incident processes, controls, metrics, reporting, and sustainable operating models

Advises on global privacy, data protection, cyber, and AI requirements—including cross-border transfers, localization, multinational data flows, high-risk processing, and regulatory inquiries—and translates obligations into practical processes, controls, technical requirements, and implementation plans

Leads privacy and AI impact, maturity, gap, and governance assessments; directs data governance and digital safety initiatives; and embeds privacy, responsible AI, and data governance requirements into product, SDLC, model lifecycle, procurement, third-party risk, cloud, analytics, and change-management processes

Leads the selection, design, configuration, integration, testing, deployment, adoption, and optimization of privacy, data governance, AI governance, GRC, consent, data discovery and mapping, rights-request, assessment automation, model inventory, and related platforms and enterprise workflows

Leads all aspects of multiple complex engagements and client relationships with limited oversight, including scoping, contracting, planning, staffing, execution, quality review, financial management, executive reporting, risk and issue resolution, stakeholder communication, and transition to operations

Builds and expands client…