Privacy Legal Advisor - 12 Month Contract

At Bumble, the Love Company, trust is the heart of every connection we help spark. As a Privacy Advisor, you will play a critical role in supporting our global privacy program. This position is designed for a highly experienced privacy professional who operates with significant autonomy while working under the supervision and direction of a qualified attorney.

You will help translate complex privacy requirements into practical, human-centered solutions that keep our members safe and our products compliant. Partnering closely with product, engineering, security, member support, P&C, and marketing, you will help embed privacy-by-design, streamline processes, and champion a member-first approach.

Guided by Courage, Respect, Excellence, and Curiosity, you’ll use modern tools (including AI) to work smarter, from first-drafting and research to pattern-spotting, while upholding the highest standards of confidentiality and responsible AI.

What You’ll Do

• Handle responses to low to medium-risk personal data breaches, with oversight from supervising privacy counsel as appropriate.
• Handle and assist with serious and complex data breaches by coordinating breach investigations by triaging facts, collecting documentation, coordinating cross-functional tasks, and preparing draft incident assessments, notifications and regulatory materials for supervising counsel review and approval.
• Maintain the personal data breach log, clear and organized investigative records, and track post-incident follow-through.
• Support the implementation and optimisation of Bumble’s global privacy and data protection compliance programme, including GDPR, UK DPA, CCPA/CPRA and other global emerging privacy frameworks.
• Contribute to cross-functional programs, controls, and process improvements that support global regulatory compliance and scalability.
• Conduct research and help scope emerging privacy requirements in other markets, escalating legal questions to supervising counsel as appropriate.
• Monitor developments in global privacy laws and, with support from supervising privacy counsel, implement updates needed to reflect their practical implications for Bumble’s operations.
• Take ownership of privacy projects, ensuring timely delivery and effective cross-functional coordination, including higher-complexity matters under the supervision of the privacy counsel.
• Partner with business teams to keep ROPA accurate and up to date.
• Maintain draft and quality review of DPIAs, LIAs and similar data protection assessments, together with DSARs, escalating, as appropriate, to supervising privacy counsel.
• Review drafts of Data Processing Agreements, data sharing agreements, vendor data protection addenda, SCCs/TIAs, and related documentation for third-party processing transfers, escalating, as appropriate, to supervising privacy counsel.
• Coordinate regular meetings with the external DPO and assist with data protection issues and incident escalations to the DPO.
• Collect information and prepare draft responses to regulatory inquiries in partnership with Product, InfoSec, Engineering, Member Support, internal and external counsel, and DPO resources, with review and approval by the supervising privacy counsel.
• Work with Product, InfoSec, Engineering, P&C and Marketing teams to support data-flow mapping, clarify roles and responsibilities, and document data protection safeguards for new and evolving features.
• Assist with responding to member rights requests and regulatory inquiries alongside the broader privacy and legal teams, with supervision as appropriate.
• Support alignment of privacy operations with marketing, consumer protection, and P&C.
• Create and maintain policies, playbooks, templates, SOPs, and training materials that promote data protection compliant decision-making across teams.
• Contribute to data protection compliance process improvements and automation initiatives that increase efficiency.
• Collaborate effectively across functions, take initial ownership of matters that are routed for the Privacy Legal team’s review from insight to impact, and adapt as laws and products evolve.

About You

• Extensive experience in privacy, compliance, or data protection roles, ideally within technology, consumer-facing products, or regulated industries.
• Deep hands-on experience with operational privacy workflows such as ROPA maintenance, DPIAs, LIAs, vendor due diligence, SCCs/TIAs, and incident documentation.
• Ability to translate complex privacy concepts into clear operational guidance while escalating legal issues appropriately.
• Strong communication skills—able to produce high-quality drafting (policies, SOPs, playbooks, training) and distill information for stakeholders.
• Skilled in partnering with InfoSec, Product, Engineering, Member Support, Marketing, and P&C.
• Confident using AI tools for responsible first-drafting, research, and pattern-spotting.
• A proactive collaborator who takes ownership, sees work through to impact, and thrives in a fast-moving, agile environment.
• Demonstrated experience functioning as a privacy professional under the supervision of licensed attorneys, with a clear understanding of SRA limits on reserved legal activities in England and Wales.
• Typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative paths demonstrating equivalent skills.
• IAPP CIPP/E/US or equivalent privacy certifications.
• Experience working on privacy issues in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong knowledge of GDPR, UK GDPR and major US privacy laws; familiarity with global privacy frameworks and emerging trends.
• Experience assisting with negotiating data protection agreements and privacy provisions, with supervision of privacy counsel.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable working with ambiguous issues and providing structured, actionable recommendations.

Location

We are looking for this role to be based in London, UK. We have a dynamic working environment, meaning we don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all solution for where you work. We trust our people to choose the environment—remote or in-office—that’s most conducive to the task at hand.

Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply. We’re happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process; please don’t hesitate to let us know how we can help.

AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring

At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process — such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarise conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team’s efficiency and improve the candidate experience — not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy.