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Data Protection Officer

Bitvavo· Legal
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HeadquartersFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior, hands-on Data Protection Officer to drive and continuously develop Bitvavo's data protection program, ensuring GDPR and data protection compliance across the organisation. Based in Amsterdam, reporting to the Head of Legal.

Responsibilities

  • Advise and guide Bitvavo on the policies and standards needed to meet its data protection obligations
  • Engage with data protection authorities, including regular briefings, and maintain accurate records demonstrating GDPR compliance
  • Organise training and awareness activities on data protection and privacy across the company
  • Build a culture that embeds respect for data protection and privacy, acting as the champion for compliance
  • Communicate the privacy implications of new technology and proof of concepts clearly, to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Assist in addressing mandatory notification and other legal issues in the event of a data loss or breach
  • Challenge the status quo with creative, pragmatic solutions to difficult data protection problems, including on innovative ecommerce and AI projects
  • Devise privacy preserving methods for using large structured, unstructured, transactional and real time data sets, and turn data protection law, statistics and business judgement into actionable recommendations

Qualifications

  • Qualified lawyer holding a law degree
  • At least 7 years of experience in data protection including a minimum of 5 years within the EU (mandatory)
  • Experience within the Dutch market of 5 years or more (strong preference)
  • Proven record of engaging directly with data protection authorities on compliance matters
  • Experience handling data protection and privacy issues for a regulated entity, ideally in tech or ecommerce
  • Strong knowledge of and interest in emerging technologies and their social and economic impact, including customer facing ecommerce
  • Proven ability to analyze complex legal, regulatory and business issues and give sound advice under time pressure
  • Experience managing multiple compliance projects, frameworks or teams, including internal and external resources and delivering training
  • Knowledge of IT security and data analysis methodologies, with experience working alongside IT Security teams in a data driven business
  • A strategic, open minded and user centered thinker, who communicates proactively, connects the dots across industry and regulatory trends, and stays focused on execution

Skills

Required:Data protection and privacy governanceRegulatory engagementTraining and awarenessLegal analysisPrivacy by design

Benefits

  • Total rewards package information available on Life at Bitvavo page (no specific benefits listed in description)
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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