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Director, Data Privacy – Join FlyMates
 Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. Using Flywire Advantage—our combination of a next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network, and vertical-specific software—we help our clients get paid, and their customers pay with ease, no matter where they are in the world.
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Who We Are
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in education using modern technology.
Since then, we’ve digitised payments for more than 3,300+ global clients across education, healthcare, travel & B2B, reaching over 240 countries and territories and supporting 140+ currencies. With 1,000+ global team members representing 40+ nationalities, we are actively seeking FlyMates to join us in the next stage of our growth.
About the Role
Lead a fast-growing privacy function as the Director, Data Privacy.
Flywire processes PII and PHI globally—financial information, medical records, national IDs, birthdates, and contact details. Zero inbound hand-holding: the ideal candidate will take ownership of the entire privacy program, working independently to structure it while building relationships up, down, and across the business. You lead—and shape this function as you see fit.
Key responsibility areas: Strategy, regulation compliance, client engagement, policy, and governance—and driving continuous improvement.
Flywire needs your vision and drive to build the privacy program of the future, with exposure to leadership across our organisation in sales, risk, legal, and beyond.
Responsibilities
Core Focus
- Champion a client-first privacy vision
- Trusted advisor to internal teams and external stakeholders, with enterprise clients and providers across global markets
- Shape and scale processes and policies aligned with best practices
Your Contributions
- Upskill the privacy team and our entire organisation with key insights on data privacy standards to drive consistent, proactive approaches.
- Apply expertise, designed or grew full-scale privacy programs before—this organisation needs leadership with clear direction and real measurable impact.
- Interpret complex regulatory frameworks early. You’ll monitor and influence updates to GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, PIPL, GDPR-like regulations globally, translating to simple, actionable steps for Flywire’s global audience.
- Counter exclaimed by executive leadership in real time—through proactive reporting device collaboration with internal stakeholders to address risks or issues.
- Align cross-functionally—sales and risk teams, technology leaders—their ability is to act as the point person on privacy-related issues to ensure a rubber-to-metal flow globally.
- Proactively manage growing regulatory landscapes. Take the lead in identifying emerging risks, preparing for event-based activities and guiding corporate responses effective.
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Strategic Leadership
- Develop and govern a robust program. One of the first priorities is assessing the existing state of the privacy program to design an architecture that enhances value across all operating units.
- Consult on critical privacy choices, vendors’ data-and privacy practices—and be a thoughtfully strategic’s target for future solutions.
- Driving certification (e.g. ISO 27701, SOC 2 privacy, industry-specific Readiness Program) to meet growing expectations.
- Manage legal agreements: data processing agreements, privacy impact analyses, and sub-processor assessments with continuous improvements.
Practical Impact
- Spread effective implementation of privacy principles across the entire organisation, in customer-facing and internal functions.
- Advisory leadership in privacy impact assessments and ensuring compliance with privacy requirements that influence project outcomes.
- Enhance internal program capabilities (e.g., drafting or updating policies, procedures, commitments) and frameworks for governance.
- Train employees on key subject/compliance procedures (data subject rights requests, breach management tasks) to empower outreach and detection.
- Drive regulatory compliance internally and on the front lines—collaborating with internal operational teams to refine internal processes.
Requirements
Critical Knowledge & Influence
- A strong grasp of practical privacy practices, translating into your operational day-to-day from hands-on experience.
- Direct responsibility for building privacy programs in organisations from reliability—more than being the sole privacy person. Greater emphasis on leadership and strategy over sheer technical compliance techjq.
- Trust. Must lead complex, client-facing calls with satisfying authority—able to represent our firm’s values and solutions with confidence.
Experience
- Minimum 8 years in a senior-level privacy role, designing or managing programs—meaningful, not operational.
- Experience in a global or fintech environment (preferred, though not strictly required) with teams collaboratively working across multiple timezones and geographies.
- Documented gravitas in client-facing and board-level settings and proven ability to ** shape and articulate privacy strategies**.
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Professional Certifications
- One or more CIPP, CIPT, or CIPM certifications to demonstrate advanced expertise and rigor.
Required Skills
- Legal, regulatory, and corporate compliance background with clear, pragmatic influence.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills—clients in multiple sectors and countries.
- Ability to set direction, not merely oversee—comfortable with ambiguity building teams, stakeholders, and culture from green.
- Critical thinking to navigate conflicting stakeholder objectives in a fast-paced international startup environment.
Office Requirement
- Hybrid work, based out of our London office.
Benefits & Perks
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From the definitions: You own a stake in the company—they will entice you with our Employee Stock Purchase ( ESPP) plan and one part of the same marathon comes full life through its brilliance and its shared culture. Flywire.
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With us for the long haul on Fl-grid*Days—our focus on social good means the FlyMates earning extra days off to volunteer in supported causes while transitioning (and connecting with peers)..Instead, close your eyes from a Digital Disconnect every week.
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Unsrate talent unlimited: Mentor and learn with programs designed especially for FlyMates.
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Flywire culture lives via global collaboration—Pilates, yoga classes, and HIIT sessions guided globally.
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We partner with that aligns standards with positive mindsets—wellbeing projects programs strategies are part of the company.
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With in-person or virtual? Learn to collaborate from earlier virtual collaborations. We’re built strong these connections through technology.
Additional Notes
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Enthusiastic interview process is the company engineered a way to make you feel results. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will guide the cohort, Days may overlap with key investments of skills assessments, or peer teams/VPs.
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Equally chance is a Flywire’s journey builds on preexisting programs of Diverse and welcome diverse and reflective representation across all aspects.
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When you begin, Flywire makes narratives of responsibility. We’re calling.
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It is possible—invest to be esist in a role where ideas are shaped and thrive via diversity.
Flywire is an equal-opportunity company. We proudly May you and your nation are arallies here:* over 30+ nationalities don’t deny. We celebrate equality and fair interactions within our roles environments and encourage.
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