Interim Privacy Legal Advisor

At Bumble, the Love Company, trust is the heart of every connection we help spark. As a Privacy Advisor
, you will play a critical role in supporting our global privacy program. This position is designed for a highly experienced privacy professional who operates with significant autonomy while working under the supervision and direction of a qualified attorney.

You will help translate complex privacy requirements into practical, human-centered solutions that keep our members safe and our products compliant. Partnering closely with product, engineering, security, member support, P&C, and marketing, you will help embed privacy-by-design, streamline processes, and champion a member-first approach.

Guided by Courage, Respect, Excellence, and Curiosity, you’ll use modern tools (including AI) to work smarter, from first-drafting and research to pattern-spotting, while upholding the highest standards of confidentiality and responsible AI.

🐝 What You'll Do

• Handle responses to low to medium-risk personal data breaches, with oversight from supervising privacy counsel as appropriate.
• Handle and assist with serious and complex data breaches by coordinating breach investigations by triaging facts, collecting documentation, coordinating cross-functional tasks, and preparing draft incident assessments, notifications and regulatory materials for supervising counsel review and approval.
• Maintain the personal data breach log, clear and organized investigative records, and track post-incident follow-through.

• Support the implementation and optimisation of Bumble’s global privacy and data protection compliance programme, including GDPR, UK DPA, CCPA/CPRA and other global emerging privacy frameworks.
• Contribute to cross-functional programs, controls, and process improvements that support global regulatory compliance and scalability.
• Conduct research and help scope emerging privacy requirements in other markets, escalating legal questions to supervising counsel as appropriate.
• Monitor developments in global privacy laws and, with support from supervising privacy counsel, implement updates needed to reflect their practical implications for Bumble’s operations.
• Take ownership of privacy projects, ensuring timely delivery and effective cross-functional coordination, including higher-complexity matters under the supervision of the privacy counsel.

• Partner with business teams to keep ROPA accurate and up to date.
• Maintain draft and quality review of DPIAs, LIAs and similar data protection assessments, together with DSARs, escalating, as appropriate, to supervising privacy counsel.
• Review drafts of Data Processing Agreements, data sharing agreements, vendor data protection addenda, SCCs/TIAs, and related documentation for third-party processing transfers, escalating, as appropriate, to supervising privacy counsel.
• Handle complex data sharing arrangements under the supervision of privacy counsel.

• Coordinate regular meetings with the external DPO and assist with data protection issues and incident escalations to the DPO.
• Track deadlines, coordinate inputs, and maintain records of correspondence and tasks and issues raised by the DPO, such as incident response, regulatory query, responses to data subject requests or data protection compliance documentation.

• Collect information and prepare draft responses to regulatory inquiries in partnership with Product, Info Sec, Engineering, Member Support, internal and external counsel, and DPO resources, with review and approval by the supervising privacy counsel. Track deadlines, coordinate inputs, and maintain records of regulatory correspondence.

• Work with Product, Info Sec, Engineering, P&C and Marketing teams to support data-flow mapping, clarify roles and responsibilities, and document data protection safeguards for new and evolving features.
• Identify privacy considerations and document privacy assessments in compliance with data protection laws, and identify high-risk issues for…