Head of Privacy

Ready to revolutionize healthcare, making it faster and more accessible than ever before? Founded in 2013 by Dwayne D’Souza, HeliosX was built on a simple but powerful idea: healthcare should be easier to access, faster to receive, and centred around the individual. From day one, we’ve grown without external funding; scaling profitably through technology, disciplined execution, and deep medical expertise.

We’ve earned the trust of millions of people worldwide through category-leading products and well-known brands, including MedExpress, Dermatica, ZipHealth, RocketRX, and Levity. A key driver of our success is vertical integration; we operate our own manufacturing and proprietary products, led by in‑house medical teams, researchers, and pharmacists at the top of their fields. In 2025, HeliosX treated more than 1.7 million patients globally and reached £781 m in revenue, representing +337 % year‑on‑year growth and cementing our position as the clear market leader in the UK.

This growth translates into real‑world outcomes: our weight‑loss treatments helped patients lose 8.5 million kilograms of excess weight in 2025 alone, contributing to an estimated 1,300 fewer cardiac events. Today, we operate across four international markets, with successful launches in Germany and Canada and continued expansion in the US. We were also recently recognised in the Sunday Times Top 100 fastest‑growing tech companies.

HeliosX is seeking a Senior Privacy Counsel to own and lead global privacy and data protection across the organisation. Reporting to the Head of Legal, this role will set and drive the company’s privacy strategy, embed privacy‑by‑design across products and operations, and enable compliant, scalable use of data (including health data) to support innovation, international expansion and responsible commercialisation.

This is a high‑impact, senior legal role with significant autonomy and visibility. The role focuses on legal privacy and regulatory strategy and risk. Day‑to‑day information security operations and non‑legal compliance execution sit with the relevant functional owners, with strong partnership and governance across these teams. Privacy and data protection are central to HeliosX’s growth, product strategy and regulatory credibility.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Own and lead the organisation’s global privacy and data protection strategy, including the use of special category (health) data.
• Act as the final internal decision‑maker on privacy and data protection matters within agreed risk appetite, providing clear, pragmatic direction to the business and the Head of Legal.
• Partner with and advise the Head of Legal on cross‑functional and board‑level risk trade‑offs where privacy intersects with broader legal, regulatory or commercial considerations.
• Design, implement and continuously improve scalable privacy governance.
• Establish privacy KPIs and reporting for senior leadership.
• Lead engagement with data protection authorities and regulators.
• Monitor and advise on privacy regulatory developments across relevant jurisdictions.
• Partner closely with product, engineering and data teams to embed privacy‑by‑design into product development.
• Lead on privacy and data protection aspects of AI and automated decision‑making.
• Support responsible data use and data commercialisation initiatives.
• Own privacy readiness for international expansion.
• Draft, review and negotiate data‑related agreements.
• Build and lead a small but growing privacy function.

Experience Who you are:

• Qualified lawyer (UK / EU preferred).
• 8+ years PQE (or equivalent experience) with deep, hands‑on privacy expertise.
• Proven experience owning privacy strategy and decision‑making in a regulated, high‑growth and data‑intensive environment.
• Expert knowledge of UK GDPR and EU GDPR.
• Demonstrable experience influencing and advising senior stakeholders.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation and communication skills.
• Experience working in or advising a healthtech, digital health or consumer healthcare business.
• Experience building or scaling a privacy function within a fast‑paced, high‑growth organisation.

Why work with us? At HeliosX, we want to improve healthcare for everyone, and to do this we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition. We are currently a diverse team committed to our mission - but we need more talented folks to join us, if we want to achieve our global ambitions!

Generous equity allocations with significant upside potential, 25 Days Holiday (+ all the usual Bank Holidays), Private health insurance, Employee Pension with Smart Pension, Enhanced parental leave, Cycle‑to‑work Scheme, Electric Car Scheme, Free Dermatica and MedExpress products every month, Home office allowance, Access to a Headspace subscription, discounted gym memberships, and a learning and development budget.