Privacy Manager (AI Governance)

Location: Remote, Colombia

Company

hirify.global is a technology-first financial platform providing payments, shopping, banking, deposits, unsecured credit, e-commerce, and marketing services in Colombia.

What you will do

• Lead the privacy program across hirify.global’s entities, assess regulatory compliance, set priorities, and drive remediation.
• Maintain data-flow records covering personal data, legal bases, counterparties, and regulatory registrations.
• Partner with Data and Cybersecurity to integrate privacy into data governance, including classification, retention, minimization, and lawful use.
• Advise on incident response, legal risk, stakeholder coordination, and regulatory reporting.
• Review product, alliance, vendor, and technology launches involving personal data; negotiate data processing agreements and cross-border transfer terms.
• Design and operate AI governance for product AI, automated decisions, customer-facing agents, and internal AI tools; represent hirify.global before regulators and in industry working groups.

Requirements

• Licensed lawyer with 10+ years of total legal or compliance experience, including at least 6 years in data protection or privacy.
• Proven experience in Colombian data protection law and regulatory practice, including direct interaction with the SIC through filings and inquiries.
• Experience owning a privacy function as a sole or near-sole privacy lead, DPO, privacy counsel, or senior privacy/compliance lead.
• Experience in a regulated, high-growth environment such as fintech, financial services, or consumer technology, or prior experience working at the SIC.
• Strong understanding of how PII flows through cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and AI/ML systems, including major data threats.
• Ability to work credibly with Engineering, Data, and Cybersecurity and translate legal requirements into practical safeguards without owning technical frameworks.
• Experience negotiating or reviewing data processing agreements and cross-border transfer clauses with cloud and technology vendors such as AWS.
• Proven experience implementing AI workflows for legal or privacy work, beyond using off-the-shelf chat tools; understanding of AI governance, vendor risks, shadow AI, and data retention.
• Ability to operate as a player-coach, personally execute work, manage external advisors, prioritize decisions by actual risk exposure, and advise senior leadership.

Nice to have

• Experience working at the SIC.
• Exposure to international privacy frameworks such as GDPR and Brazil’s LGPD.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from Colombia in a high-growth financial technology environment.
• Opportunity to influence privacy, AI governance, technology, strategy, culture, and values while the company scales.
• Work alongside an international team with an emphasis on excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
• Competitive compensation including salary, equity, and benefits.
• Feedback is provided throughout the hiring experience.

Hiring process

• People Interview, Initial Interview, and Deep Dive covering privacy programs, SIC interactions, business speed, AI use, and collaboration with Data, Cybersecurity, and Engineering.
• Business Case involving a privacy scenario such as reviewing a cloud vendor data processing agreement with a cross-border transfer and prioritizing the first months of work.
• Final Co-Founder Interview focused on expectations, cultural fit, and mutual alignment.