Manager-Compliance

Position: Manager Compliance, Global Privacy Oversight

Location: India, Gurgaon

American Express Global Privacy Oversight (GPO) team is a Second Line of Defense (2LoD) function that provides independent oversight, effective challenge, and privacy risk expertise across the enterprise. GPO partners with business and control functions to promote a strong culture of privacy, drive compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements, and ensure privacy risks are appropriately identified, assessed, managed, and mitigated. Through independent oversight and credible challenge, GPO helps strengthen the company's privacy risk management framework while supporting American Express' commitment to delivering the world's best customer experience every day.

The successful candidate will be passionate about advancing privacy excellence and will bring strong global privacy subject matter expertise. The candidate will promote responsible use of personal data in line with individual and regulatory expectations while enabling innovation and a seamless user experience. The candidate will be comfortable interacting with multiple stakeholders across a highly matrixed organization to achieve goals and will be an advocate for Privacy-by-Design. The role will primarily provide Second Line of Defense oversight and effective challenge of the initiatives driven by the Global Privacy Center of Excellence (GPCE) team, led by Enterprise Technology Services’ Data Privacy and Governance Office, ensuring privacy risks are effectively identified, assessed, managed, and mitigated in line with enterprise risk management expectations. The candidate will be a key member of the US Consumer and Commercial Privacy Oversight team, but closely liaison with the Digital, Institutional, International, and Program Privacy teams to bring awareness of GPCE initiatives and engage Privacy SMEs accordingly.

Minimum Qualifications

• Five years of experience in Privacy, with particular focus on emerging global privacy regulatory awareness.

• Experience or demonstrated interest in global Privacy risk management.

• Highly organized with strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

• Ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders, mobilize cross-functional and regional teams, and work independently.

Preferred Additional Qualifications

- Master's degree or equivalent in Data Protection and Privacy.
- Data Protection and Privacy Professional Certification (e.g., CIPP/E, CIPP/US).
- Prior work in Compliance, Audit/or Risk management at a Digital Technology and/or financial services company preferred