Senior Director, Data & Technology, Data Privacy (AdTech)

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Practice Overview:

Ankura’s Data Privacy Practice offers a full-service suite of data privacy solutions for clients, regardless of industry or size. Our experts assess data privacy risk and readiness relative to existing and emerging privacy regulations and help organizations build and mature their privacy programs.
 

Role Overview:

Our Privacy practice is a rapidly growing part of the Data & Technology segment of our business. The Senior Director will help our clients address their data privacy challenges, including assisting organizations through privacy related regulatory investigations, conducting privacy risk assessments, creating policies and procedures, building data inventories, reviewing, and interpreting regulatory changes, developing consumer response processes, and implementing technology.

We are seeking a technical AdTech professional to join the Data Privacy team. You will conduct thorough assessments of clients' ad tech practices to identify privacy compliance gaps, implement changes to ensure compliance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate privacy compliance into product development and marketing. You will also develop and implement methodologies to guide clients in applying data protection by design principles throughout the software development lifecycle and advise on consent models for tracking technologies on websites and mobile apps.

This role is remote, based in the United States.
 

Responsibilities:

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of clients' current ad tech practices and identify compliance gaps related to privacy regulations.

• Implement changes in various Ad Tech technologies to operationalize compliance strategy.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate privacy compliance into product development and marketing strategies.

• Develop and deploy methodologies to advise clients on integrating data protection by design principles to the SDLC, including requirements elicitation, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing administration and maintenance.

• Develop and deploy methodologies to advise clients on applying consent models to cookies, pixels, beacons, and other tracking technologies for websites and mobile applications.

• Develop and deploy website scanning strategies and technologies; recommend and implement technical measures to support compliance with consent and preference management obligations.

• Oversee delivery of engagements related to Privacy Technology implementations, integrations, and configurations; privacy by design; Software / Solution Development Lifecycle (SDLC) integration; privacy source code analysis; website and application compliance; and Privacy Technology training and adoption.

• Assist with in-depth analyses of network traffic and employ advanced network scanning tools.

• Create documentation identifying data flows between various systems and technologies.

• Lead day-to-day activities of engagements including interaction with other team members, subject matter experts, external counsel, and client contacts.

• Manage all facets of client engagements, including project planning, work stream supervision, budgeting, and billing.

• Create project status summaries, reports, metrics, written analyses, assessments, and other presentations of work performed.

• Create and update policies and procedures to support compliance with various regulations.

• Actively participate in and lead internal and external team meetings including client assessments, presentations, and status meetings.

• Manage time and tasks to meet internal and external deadlines.

• Mentor practice members to enable their professional development and continued growth.

• Develop standardized metrics, methodologies, and other work product to be delivered by client project teams.

• Develop integration strategies between privacy technologies and privacy-adjacent solutions such as those used by Human Resources, Enterprise Architecture, Analytics, Marketing, and other business functions.

• Conduct/lead client interviews, ensure that the team develops appropriate pre-meeting materials and conducts background research, and mentor practice members in client environments.

• Build relationships with other Ankura professionals and participates in industry events where subject matter expertise is requested.

• Interact with Ankura team members in the US and within global business groups to ensure client needs are met.

• Ensure clients are provided high-quality services from all levels of the team