Data Protection Officer

As a Data Protection Officer at Bitvavo, you drive and continuously develop the company's data protection program, ensuring compliance with GDPR and other data protection and privacy laws. Reporting to the Head of Legal and based in Amsterdam, you work closely with multiple business units and products to keep Bitvavo compliant across all areas of data protection. People trust Bitvavo with their money, their digital assets and their personal data, and your job is to make sure that trust is always deserved.

What you'll do

• Advise and guide Bitvavo on the policies and standards needed to meet its data protection obligations
• Engage with data protection authorities, including regular briefings, and maintain accurate records demonstrating GDPR compliance
• Organise training and awareness activities on data protection and privacy across the company
• Build a culture that embeds respect for data protection and privacy, acting as the champion for compliance
• Communicate the privacy implications of new technology and proof of concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Assist in addressing mandatory notification and other legal issues in the event of a data loss or breach
• Challenge the status quo with creative, pragmatic solutions to difficult data protection problems, including on innovative ecommerce and AI projects
• Devise privacy preserving methods for using large structured, unstructured, transactional and real time data sets, and turn data protection law, statistics and business judgement into actionable recommendations
• Own the business processes and policies covering data access, classification, quality and life cycle management

What you bring

• A qualified lawyer holding a law degree, with at least 7 years of experience in data protection
• A minimum of 5 years of data protection experience gained within the EU, which is mandatory given the EU specific nature of this regulation
• A proven record of engaging directly with data protection authorities on compliance matters
• Experience handling data protection and privacy issues for a regulated entity, ideally in tech or ecommerce
• Strong knowledge of and interest in emerging technologies and their social and economic impact, including customer facing ecommerce
• A proven ability to analyze complex legal, regulatory and business issues and give sound advice under time pressure
• Experience managing multiple compliance projects, frameworks or teams, including internal and external resources and delivering training
• Knowledge of IT security and data analysis methodologies, with experience working alongside IT Security teams in a data driven business
• A strategic, open minded and user centered approach, with the ability to communicate proactively, connect the dots across industry and regulatory trends, and stay focused on execution

Nice to have

• Experience within the Dutch market of 5 years or more

About Bitvavo

Bitvavo launched its digital assets trading platform in 2018 to bridge the gap between traditional currencies and digital assets. The company has established itself as the market leader in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, with over one million users exchanging tens of billions of digital assets annually.