Head of Privacy
Perk is the intelligent platform for travel and spend - bringing travel bookings, events, expense management, and invoice payments together in one AI-powered platform. We serve thousands of businesses globally, from high-growth start-ups to major enterprises, and we’re backed by world-class investors.
We’re a SaaS and AI technology scale-up, with hubs across Europe and the US. We’re building a company where AI isn’t just the backbone of the product - it’s in how every team works. Across Perk, we use tools like Claude and Gemini to move faster, think bigger, and deliver at a scale that would be impossible without them.
We rebranded from TravelPerk to Perk in March 2025 to reflect the breadth of what we’ve become, and what we’re going to be. If you want to do the most impactful work of your career, in a team that’s genuinely reimagining what in-house privacy looks like, we’d love to hear from you.
What’s the role?
You’re a leader (or a person looking to lead) with around seven years’ experience developing their specialism in Privacy. Perhaps you’re frustrated at your lack of autonomy? Perhaps you have radical ideas as to how a modern privacy team functions, but you don’t have the platform to execute those ideas? Great: you may be what we’re looking for.
You will help to build and scale our customer trust program, and you’ll drive our privacy operations strategy. To help Perk win, you will simplify the increasingly complex regulatory landscape of privacy, AI, cybersecurity, and data governance into outcomes that our customers can feel. You will be highly literate in (and capable of independently deploying) technology to create user-friendly automated workflows that drive innovation and maintain product development velocity, all while ensuring the best-in-class data protection standards our customers and staff expect.
What will your day-to-day look like?
This is a “doing” role - with a strong strategic component - where a strong bias to action is critical. It is not an abstract strategy role, and you won’t be reviewed on the quality of your decks or memos. Rather: you will deliver high-impact, creative, commercial solutions to improve our privacy posture and scale our privacy program; you will collaborate with and work through teams to keep integrating privacy by design into our products; you’ll also identify and manage the privacy and AI compliance risks that matter most, support key business and product choices, strengthen our culture of privacy, and help other leaders make well-informed decisions involving the responsible use of data.
You will also collaborate closely with the DPO, and build trust continually with the Security, People/HR, Procurement, Product and Engineering, Data, Revenue, and Customer Care teams to ensure alignment on company initiatives involving the processing of personal data. You’ll manage a team of two.