Director, Data Strategy

Telesign, a leading communication and security solutions provider, seeks a dynamic and experienced professional to join our team as the Director of Data Strategy. In this pivotal role, you will lead a Data Strategy team charged with specifying, managing, and deriving value from data that Telesign products use to detect and prevent fraud. The successful candidate will be key in ensuring adherence to the Telesign Data Compliance Framework, fostering data privacy safeguards, working closely with the Telesign Privacy Team and implementing the spirit and the letter of Telesign Data Privacy notice.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Manage a team of data strategy professionals who are responsible for understanding the compliance requirements in their region and partnering with a Telesign Operations team to build relationships with partner companies that can provide or consume data.
   1. This team collects the requirements from Data Product Managers who both seek data and relationships with third parties, and in the operation of their products, produce data that can be leveraged by third-parties to detect and prevent fraud.
   2. This team aggregates these product requirements at the regional basis for the Operations Team or Partner Team who takes the regional perspective and is accountable for a plan of execution.
   3. This team also collects information about changing regulations or protocols in a region, opportunities to work with third-parties, or requests from the regional sales organizations and brings them back to the Product Management Team for integration into the roadmap.
2. Develop and implement strategies with third-party data partners to create new routes to market and new anti-fraud market offerings by combining the capabilities and datasets of global partners with Telesign capabilities. This includes creating a value proposition for these partners, and operating model, and a commercial model that provides pathways to shared success. These relationships will be executed by the Telesign Operations or Partner teams.
3. As protecting the privacy of data subjects is a core completive advantage at Telesign you will develop and implement Data Compliance Framework:
   1. Design, build, and execute the Telesign Data Compliance Framework, establishing a trusted industry-leading Data and Analytics regulatory and control strategy.
   2. Approve Product Data Requirements Documents for all products and services.
   3. Develop the value proposition for Data Residency at Telesign.
   4. Establish and enforce data governance standards, ensuring compliance with data protection policies, regulations and laws.
4. Collaborate for Remediation:
   1. Ensuring effective communication and collaboration between the Enterprise Data Management team and Legal and Privacy Teams is essential to establish a robust framework for data compliance, minimize legal risks, and uphold Telesign’s commitment to protecting data privacy.
   2. Partner with Product Managers, Architects, and other 2nd line of defense teams to implement improved solutions for regulatory, audit, and security findings.
   3. As you partner with the Data Governance Committee chair, you’ll oversee and manage Telesign's data-related policies, processes, and compliance.
   4. Collaborate with different business units to align data practices with organizational goals.
5. Establish Data Governance Standards:
   1. Implement data governance standards, frameworks, policies, quality, lineage, and controls across cloud platforms and applications.
   2. Monitor and address data quality and security issues.
6. Executive Accountability:
   1. Be accountable for executive closure on specific business unit/cross-functional data analytics audit issues, controls issues, and self-identified issues related to all platforms and environments for data and analytics.
   2. In case of regulatory inquiries or investigations, the Legal and Privacy Teams and Data Compliance Officer work together to respond to regulators, address legal requirements, and mitigate potential legal risks.
7. Drive Process Improvements:
   1. Collaborate with business unit/cross-functional teams to drive improvements across critical business processes and data elements, optimizing business processes during regulatory remediation.
8. Agile Team Building:
   1. Build an agile team to support sustainable regulatory reporting, business resiliency, and execution across the regulatory and audit issue portfolio.
9. Platform and Process Assessment:
   1. Assess the current state of platforms, tools, and processes to define solutions for regulatory, audit, and security issue closures.
10. Continuous Learning and Innovation:
    1. Stay informed on emerging industry demands and technologies, bringing new practices to Telesign.
    2. Establish a "Data Compliance Guild" or collaborative group within an organization that shares knowledge and best practices related to data compliance, it could be an internal community or forum where individuals from various departments come together to discuss and address data compliance challenges.

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with an MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in Information Technology / or Product Line Management
• 5+ years of senior leadership experience in leading cross-functional teams and enterprise-wide programs.
• 5+ years of experience integrating complex cross-corporate data processes and models.
• Understanding of Software-as-a-Service subscription models sold directly to businesses as well as through third parties.
• Executive presence to operate with VP- and C-Level executives at partner companies around the world
• In-depth/working knowledge of the GDPR. Other applicable laws would be a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Proven record of effective leadership.
• Strong English oral, written, and negotiation skills.

We are offering:

• Good compensation - Competitive € salary plus benefits package.
• Development opportunities.
• Challenging but also a friendly working environment.
• And much, much more...

About Telesign:

Telesign connects and protects online experiences with sophisticated customer identity and engagement solutions. Through APIs that deliver user verification, data insights, and communications we solve today’s unique customer challenges by bridging businesses to the complex world of global telecommunications.

Telesign is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe our differences help us create a better workplace, a better product, and a better community. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

Telesign is an Affirmative Action Employer and as part of the commitment to AAP, it will seek to ensure affirmative action to provide equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment, and that all personnel activities, such as the recruitment selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, transfer, layoff and termination processes remain free of illegal discrimination and harassment based on protected characteristic

NOTICE TO ALL POTENTIAL JOB CANDIDATES:

We recently have become aware of individuals, unaffiliated with Telesign Corporation, who have been sending out fake employment offers using a name similar to ours, in an apparent attempt to defraud would-be job candidates. In a recent example, a scam email was sent from the @outlook.com domain. All emails sent on behalf of Telesign will come from email addresses ending in @telesign.com.

Please be advised that Telesign Corporation does not solicit candidates for employment via email - nor do we require or ask for fees or payments during any phase of the recruitment or hiring process. If any person solicits financial information, fees, or payments from you as part of the "recruitment process" or as part of a purported employment offer, you should assume that the communication is not from Telesign Corporation and is not sanctioned or approved by our Company.

If you have received one these offers or believe you have been the victim of fraudulent activity via the internet, we would appreciate you filing a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center at the link below:

http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx