About the Role
The Data Privacy Steward supports the data privacy program activities established by the Global Data Privacy Office (GDPO) and executed through the Global Data Privacy Operations (GDPOps) team. This role leads core data privacy activities within their agency and reports on key metrics to track program status and progress, requiring coordination across all levels of the business.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the Data Privacy Steward appointment is formally announced across the agency.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all privacy-related questions and issues.
- Support the Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) process, ensuring requests reach the correct departments, searches are completed, and findings are reported.
- Ensure fulfillment of data subject rights (deletion, rectification, etc.) where applicable.
- Attend all GDPOps-scheduled Data Privacy Steward meetings and contribute to discussions.
- Assist in coordinating local privacy training in partnership with GDPO and GDPOps.
- Support client-facing teams by ensuring timely responses to privacy-related inquiries following the Engagement Workflow.
- Coordinate resolution of client concerns, including questionnaires, assessments, audits, and informal questions, working with GDPOps, GDPO, GSO, and relevant business teams.
- Advocate for the agency’s needs to ensure teams can serve clients effectively and efficiently.
- Complete and maintain the client and services roster using the approved template, updating it as new clients onboard or transition out.
- Train Data Inventory respondents (with GDPOps support) to ensure readiness.
- Serve as the primary contact for respondent questions, addressing issues directly and escalating to GDPOps as needed.
- Track Data Inventory progress and escalate non-completion to appropriate leadership.
- Maintain an up-to-date roster of proprietary products and product owners.
- Ensure all proprietary products undergo required data privacy compliance assessments.
- Facilitate additional privacy and security reviews when necessary, including Data Privacy Impact Assessments (DPIAs).
- Submit completed DPIAs to GDPO for review and support the implementation of recommended actions.
- Promote Privacy-by-Design practices in product development and records retention.
- Maintain a list of all vendors processing personal data and requiring Vendor Due Diligence using Personal Data Inventory submissions.
- Gather and maintain vendor contact information.
- Provide vendor details to GDPOps for assessment deployment and follow up with nonresponsive vendors as requested.
- Coordinate with GSO to ensure required security reviews are completed for in-scope vendors.
Requirements
- Solid understanding of fundamental data privacy concepts and familiarity with key global privacy legislation.
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, systems, and tools.
- Strong organizational and program management skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and deliverables.
- High attention to detail, analytical thinking, and problem-solving ability.
- Able to influence and drive accountability across teams.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build cross-functional relationships.
- Ability to navigate agency structures to identify subject-matter experts and key contacts.
- Clear communicator who can support both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Understanding of agency operations, service offerings, workflows, and proprietary tools/products.
- Ability to ensure accuracy, quality, and relevance of privacy deliverables.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently while coordinating across multiple business functions.
- Experience engaging with leadership and supporting complex workflows across departments.
- Comfortable representing the agency in discussions with global privacy, security, and operational teams.
Skills
- Data privacy
- Program management
- Project coordination
- Operational oversight
- Security
- Legal
- Compliance
- Technology
- Client service
- Cross-functional collaboration
Experience Level
- Senior Associate-level
- 2–3 years of professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- USD $0.00 - USD $0.00/Annually
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental
- Vision
- Disability
- 401K
- Parental and family care leave
- Family forming assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible time off
- Freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system (for temporary roles, once certain criteria have been met)
- 401(k) plan participation (for temporary roles after eligibility criteria have been met)
About the Company
- Within Publicis Groupe’s Intelligent Creativity business, we specialize in bringing creative ideas to life, and to consumers.
- By combining 100 years of craft excellence with 6,000 experts across 52 locations of the world’s biggest studio network, we leverage the industry’s richest data, through the power of agentic AI, to radically redefine content production with Intelligent Content.
- We intuitively deliver this through Marcel Make, the world’s first Intelligent Content agent.
- The result? Predictively performing content that unlocks business growth in unprecedented ways.
- No more guesswork. No more waste. Just content that works, working a lot harder.
Equal Opportunity
- Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
- Veterans Encouraged to Apply.
