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# Head of Privacy

- **Company:** Nothing
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Cyber Security, Dataspaces, Identity and Access Management, Software Product Management, Cloud Services, Privacy Controls
- **Published:** August 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/head/nothing-job107914021

## About the Role

* Deep technical fluency in modern cloud stacks (AWS/GCP), API architectures, and identity management, with the ability to separate real security risks from noise.
 * Proven experience applying privacy engineering to live consumer products, with the judgement to know when to call legal and when to make the call yourself.
 * A high sense of ownership, with the drive to take ambiguous requirements through to full technical resolution without constant direction.
 * A background in privacy engineering, security architecture, or technical product management inside a data-rich consumer tech environment.
 * A pragmatic approach to shipping: you prioritise safe, functional products and understand the trade-offs that come with moving fast.
 * Clear, direct communication skills. You write documentation that engineers, lawyers, and leadership all understand, and you bring people along without losing the detail.
 * A genuine desire to change how the industry handles data, building practices designed to earn trust rather than maximise collection.

## Description

* Define the long-term roadmap for a dedicated privacy engineering function, including strategy for team growth and investment.
 * Map the entire data ecosystem across Essential and the OS, covering signals, SDKs, cloud services, and storage, into a single source of truth.
 * Drive the engineering backlog to prioritise and close critical security gaps, with a focus on access hygiene, pipeline security, and encryption standards.
 * Translate GDPR and global regulatory frameworks into concrete technical specifications, with consent, retention, and deletion logic baked into the codebase.
 * Build risk-based guardrails that let product teams ship features fast without bypassing security reviews.
 * Work closely with Design and Brand to create transparent privacy controls and prompts that help users understand exactly how their data is used.
 * Own relationships with external security specialists and auditors to validate our architecture against global standards and lead incident response when needed.


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