Senior Privacy Specialist

About the role

Fireworks is seeking a Senior Privacy Specialist to serve as the primary privacy point of contact for the UK and EU as the company expands its European footprint. This role involves managing regulatory correspondence, overseeing operational compliance with UK and EU GDPR, and providing expert privacy guidance to engineering, product, and legal teams. The successful candidate will be a hands-on individual contributor responsible for building and maintaining privacy systems within a fast-paced AI infrastructure environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior privacy point of contact for the UK and EU, handling regulator correspondence and inquiries.
• Provide privacy advisory guidance to product, engineering, GTM, and legal teams regarding regulatory requirements and risk.
• Manage UK/EU data subject rights outcomes, including statutory deadlines and exemption decisions.
• Oversee cross-border transfer compliance, including UK IDTA, SCCs, and Transfer Impact Assessments.
• Lead breach assessment and notification processes for the region in coordination with security and legal teams.
• Embed privacy-by-design principles into new products, features, and AI model training workflows.
• Maintain and update the UK/EU privacy notice and policy library to ensure alignment with regulatory obligations.

Required skills

• UK GDPR
• EU GDPR
• Data Protection Act 2018
• DPIA
• DSAR
• International transfer mechanisms
• Privacy-by-design
• Automation
• LLM-based tooling

Nice to have

• OneTrust
• TrustArc
• Transcend
• DataGrail
• Securiti
• ISO 42001
• AI/ML data governance
• EU AI Act

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in privacy or data protection in a tech, SaaS, or cloud company
• Right to work in the EU or UK

Certifications

• CIPP/E
• CIPM
• CIPT
• FIP

About the Company

Fireworks is a platform for specialized intelligence that enables companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by major investors including NVIDIA and Sequoia Capital, the company is a Series D startup valued at $17.5 billion.