Lead Privacy Consultant - PIAs

Join Transamerica’s growing Privacy team and put your privacy expertise to work on meaningful, high-visibility initiatives across the business. As a Lead Privacy Consultant, you will be a key contributor to our privacy by design program—partnering with business and technology teams, facilitating PIAs and DPIAs, and helping turn complex privacy requirements into practical solutions.

This role offers the opportunity to broaden your experience across emerging technologies and global operations while helping strengthen a developing global privacy framework. We are looking for a collaborative, detail-oriented professional who communicates clearly, understands technology, asks thoughtful questions, and takes pride in producing high-quality work. Applicants located near key Transamerica offices are preferred, but remote candidates may also be considered.
** Job Description**##
** Responsibilities**
* ** Support the development
** of Transamerica's enterprise privacy by design playbook, contributing subject matter expertise, drafting guidance materials, and helping translate privacy requirements into practical standards for business and technology teams
* ** Facilitate and review PIAs and DPIAs
** across domestic and international business activities, ensuring assessments are thorough, consistent, and produce clear, actionable findings and recommendations
* ** Manage assigned work streams
** within privacy by design initiatives, tracking tasks, dependencies, and deliverables and escalating issues as appropriate
* ** Translate privacy requirements** — including global privacy laws, technical standards, and enterprise risk appetite — into practical operational and business outcomes
* ** Identify, assess, and communicate privacy risks**, dependencies, and remediation recommendations arising from PIAs, technology reviews, AI use cases, and vendor engagements
* ** Prepare clear, well-structured deliverables**, including risk summaries, assessment reports, governance updates, and implementation recommendations
* ** Support broader privacy operations
** activities including but not limited to notices, records of processing activities (RoPAs), training enhancements, data subject access requests, process maturity initiatives, and the privacy risk control framework
* ** Contribute to team knowledge
** through work product quality, attention to detail, and willingness to share expertise and support colleagues
* ** Engage cross-functional stakeholders** — including Technology, Product, Legal, Security, and business units — to gather information, drive follow-through, and support timely execution##
** Qualifications
* ** Bachelor's degree in business field or equivalent experience
* 8 years of privacy, data security and/or other relevant experience
* Deep practical understanding of global privacy laws and frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, GLBA, and emerging international requirements, with the ability to apply regulatory obligations in a business and technology context
* Strong attention to detail, with the ability to produce thorough, precise, and well-structured work product
* Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex privacy concepts clearly to technical, legal, and business audiences
* Ability to manage assigned work independently, maintain momentum, and drive tasks to completion in ambiguous or evolving environments
* Collaborative working style with a willingness to contribute across a range of team priorities##
** Preferred Qualifications
*** Graduate degree in business, law, technology, or risk
* 5 years of direct privacy experience with demonstrated expertise in privacy by design principles and privacy impact assessments
* CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, or comparable privacy…