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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Associate Director, Data Privacy - **Company:** Sony Music Entertainment - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $90,000.0 - $120,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Cyber Security, Data Import/Export, Data Ingestion - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/17521946?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F17521946%2FAssociate-Director-Data-Privacy-New-York-New-York ## About the Role * A minimum 5 years PQE * Excellent analytical and communication skills * Ability to work with others within group and across divisions * Strong negotiation skills and work ethic * Team player with strong interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, good judgment, and intellectual curiosity * Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with internal clients, together with commitment to provide the highest quality internal client support, The anticipated annual base salary does not include any other compensation components or other benefits that an individual may be eligible for. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. ## Description As Senior Manager, Data Privacy, you will act as a trusted advisor to the business, providing pragmatic and commercially focused privacy guidance across departments. Working closely with stakeholders globally, you will play a key role in supporting the organisation to manage data responsibly, maintain compliance, and build consistent, high-quality data protection practices across the business. What you'll do: * Drafting and negotiating one off data-share agreements (e.g., artists, distribution clients, ticketing partners, co-promoters) * Support of Product Design & Engineering team and labels' onboarding of new tools * Contracts: review / draft data protection provisions in vendor agreements and/or negotiate the longform Data Privacy & InfoSec rider for all of our stakeholders (CMG, GDB, MLive, The Orchard, AWAL, KNT, Ceremony of Roses, PX, B&LA globally...) * M&A due diligence - multiple deals in progress at once + weekly 30 minute all-hands calls (for each deal) + initial responses review & follow ups + reviewing data provisions in the sales agreement + post-acquisition integration * Orchard / AWAL / KNR - data breach support * Data import & export requests - requiring approval or privacy policy interpretation, or a data-share agreement * Cross-OpCo collaborations: location based events - project review; review and/or drafting of contract data privacy provisions (e.g., vendor, location, co-promotion, IP licence agreements), privacy & transparency notices, opt-in language * Contest queries - local and multi-market contests - re. data ingestion, sharing data with promoters and prize providers, opt-in wording, UGC advice * Marketing queries - labels, International Marketing and CRM - review campaigns and advise on language, opt-in requirements, transparency concerns, nudge techniques / dark patterns, UGC elements, and incentivising streaming * Data Subject Access Requests ("DSARs") - from employees or former employees, artists (increase since Artist Forward), consumers - can take one to three months of to identify, review, redact and collate the response * CRM - advise on data rights requests (e.g. deletion/unsubscribe requests) * Data deletion run twice a year - review each market's deletion exceptions * PX support - DE&I surveys, global career site, company-wide initiatives * Litigation support - nuisance cookie claims, DSARs escalating to litigation, requests from authorities for personal data of artists. * Conducting and documenting Privacy Impact Assessments and Data Protection Impact Assessments. ## Related Videos - [The Sound of Privacy – What Your Spotify Data Reveals About You](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100346-the-sound-of-privacy-what-your-spotify-data-reveals-about-you) - [Thinking Differently - How to Make Money from Cyber Attacks & Cheats](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/745-thinking-differently-how-to-make-money-from-cyber-attacks-cheats) - [When React Meets Reality: Building a Real-Time Control Room for Autonomous Vehicles](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2091-when-react-meets-reality-building-a-real-time-control-room-for-autonomous-vehicles) - [Build Delightful Mobile Experiences with Kotlin, Realm, and Atlas Device Sync](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/694-build-delightful-mobile-experiences-with-kotlin-realm-and-atlas-device-sync) - [Cyber Security: Small, and Large!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/259-cyber-security-small-and-large) - [Add Location-based Searching to Site with ElasticSearch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/77-add-location-based-searching-to-site-with-elasticsearch) ## Related Articles - [Data Analyst Salary in the UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/278-data-analyst-salary-in-the-uk) - [Data Analyst Salary in Switzerland](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/276-data-analyst-salary-in-switzerland) - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london) - [Data Analyst Salary Austria](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/275-data-analyst-salary-austria) - [Data Analyst Salary Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/277-data-analyst-salary-germany)