Bumble’s mission is to foster healthy and equitable relationships across the globe. As a platform built on trust and integrity, we’re deeply committed to protecting our members’ data and privacy. We are seeking a strategic and solutions-oriented Senior Director Privacy Counsel to help us build scalable, effective privacy programs that reflect our values and support our global growth.
As Senior Director Privacy Counsel, you will own and implement global privacy and data protection compliance strategy and operating model across global jurisdictions, with a primary focus on data breach readiness and response, EU regulatory obligations, and U.S. privacy compliance. You will report into the Chief Legal Officer and partner closely with Legal, InfoSec (including the CISO), Engineering Leaders (including Chief Technology and Product Officer), Compliance, and cross-functional teams to drive clarity, consistency, and accountability across all facets of data protection. This role is ideal for a privacy attorney who thrives in a fast-paced, tech-focused environment and wants to make a meaningful impact through program design, incident management, and regulatory documentation.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Define Bumble’s global privacy strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap, navigating new uses of member data in AI models as well as the emerging regulatory schemes that will govern this work.
- Provide critical strategic legal guidance regarding privacy usage that drives both innovation and the Company’s commitment to privacy while building an efficient & scalable privacy compliance function - and partnering hands-on with leaders across the organisation.
- Drive scalable, cross-functional privacy compliance programs aligned with global frameworks including GDPR, UK DPA, CCPA/CPRA, and other U.S. state-level privacy laws, creating a data governance framework and implementing a data governance structure.
- Provide regular privacy reporting and presentations to the Audit Committee and senior leadership, clearly communicating risk, readiness, trends, and decisions in a way that supports strong governance.
- Partner closely with an external Data Protection Officer (DPO) and internal senior leaders to navigate EU and UK obligations, US privacy frameworks, and evolving regulatory expectations, negotiating solutions that preserve relationships and outcomes.
- Lead Bumble’s privacy-related cyber incident and data breach response program end-to-end in close partnership with Information Security—owning readiness and investigation/triage protocols related to privacy, making notification and regulatory reporting decisions across jurisdictions, coordinating regulator engagement, and driving post-incident remediation and lessons learned—serving as the senior escalation point for high-severity matters.
- Own and maintain core GDPR compliance documentation, including Records of Processing Activities (ROPA), Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), and Lawful Basis assessments and draft and negotiate Data Processing Agreements.
- Partner closely with InfoSec, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure security safeguards, privacy-by-design, and clear roles and responsibilities in incident preparedness.
- Collaborate with internal Legal colleagues to ensure privacy compliance is integrated into wider compliance and regulatory strategies (e.g., marketing, consumer protection, international transfers), and advise other teams in the business on how to perform their functions in a manner that complies with data protection laws (e.g., marketing, advertising, communications and HR teams).
- Develop and lead a talented privacy advisor who plays a key role in ensuring the protection of our member’s data. Build and deliver privacy policies, playbooks, templates, and training materials that promote awareness and enable operational consistency.
- Stay abreast of privacy and data security trends and regulatory changes, and assess their practical impact on Bumble’s global operations.
- Promote a member-first approach to privacy that aligns with Bumble’s values and business priorities.
KEY SKILLS
- J.D. degree and active bar membership in good standing.
- 12+ years of relevant privacy and data protection experience, including in-house counsel roles with U.S.-based global companies.
- Deep understanding of global privacy regulations, including GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, biometric specific laws and other U.S. privacy and data security frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex data breach and incident response programs, including coordination with InfoSec, legal assessments, and notification requirements.
- Hands-on experience owning and managing ROPA, DPIAs, and other GDPR compliance artifacts.
- Practical, risk-based mindset and strong organizational skills—comfortable building scalable systems that reduce redundancy and ensure compliance.
ABOUT YOU
- Ability to distill complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable advice tailored for business partners.
- You have experience building teams and/or leading through senior cross-functional partners — setting standards, coaching, and creating clarity across ambiguous, high-impact work.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a proven track record of influencing and collaborating across diverse global teams, including the ability to present to and advise senior leaders across the organization and the members of the Audit Committee.
- Deep alignment with Bumble’s mission, values, and global focus.
- Preference for New York City or Austin, TX candidates but open to candidates in the New York region (D.C., CT, Boston) who are willing to travel, as much as quarterly, to the NY office. This role will also require periodic travel to our office in London and to our other Austin office, if based in NY.
$250,000 - $275,000 a year
About Us
Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.
Inclusion at Bumble Inc.
Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.
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AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring
At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process — such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarize conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team’s efficiency and improve the candidate experience — not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy. Participation in AI-supported interviews and conversations is completely voluntary and will not impact your candidacy. If you’d prefer to opt out, simply let your recruiter or interviewer know at the start of a call, or anytime during the interview or conversation. Summaries and related data are retained only as long as needed in line with our internal data retention policies. If at any point you’d like a transcription or summary deleted, please contact your recruiter directly.
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