Compliance Officer, AlphaSense
ECRM
$112-120k
Market intelligence and search platform
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Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$112-120k
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organise the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- A Proven Project Manager: You have experience managing complex regulatory or privacy related projects end to end, coordinating multiple stakeholders and work-streams to deliver on time and to a high standard. You can prioritize competing privacy initiatives and you are comfortable tracking actions, owners, and deadlines. You have a minimum of 2 years of experience in a regulated environment such as financial services, healthcare, or another highly regulated sector
- A Regulatory Compliance Specialist: You have a solid understanding of privacy and data protection concepts, and how they intersect with broader compliance obligations. You are familiar with frameworks such as GDPR and key US privacy laws, and are interested in or exposed to related regimes. You are comfortable interpreting policy and regulatory guidance into practical controls, procedures, and documentation that can be embedded into day to day operations
- An Advocate for the Client: You can empathize with internal and external stakeholders who rely on trustworthy data handling, including customers and internal business teams. You understand how privacy commitments, notices, and contractual obligations translate into operational requirements, and you can articulate privacy impacts in clear, business friendly language. You can take stakeholder feedback on privacy risks and turn it into clear requirements for product, engineering, and process owners
- Communication and Collaboration oriented: You are skilled at gathering information from business owners, product teams, data owners, and champions, and converting that into accurate playbooks. You are comfortable using written communication, collaboration tools, and video calls so that stakeholders feel heard and understand what is required of them
- Entrepreneurial: You can see beyond current constraints in tools or processes and spot opportunities to make privacy operations scalable and repeatable. Where others see manual work arounds, you see the chance to improve templates, build better workflows, and partner with product and engineering to integrate privacy into systems by design. You are motivated by building or refining privacy capabilities in emerging areas
- Passionate: You understand the value that a strong privacy posture brings to the business, especially in regulated and enterprise client contexts. You take pride in helping the organization earn and maintain trust by reducing privacy risk and ensuring that privacy by design principles are embedded into new products, features, and data uses
- A Problem-Solving Investigator: You are comfortable tracing data flows across systems, teams, and vendors to understand where data originates, how it is processed, and where risks may arise. You are willing to dive into details to support remediation work, using your knowledge of internal systems and stakeholders to surface root causes and practical solutions. You can synthesize findings into clear documentation that supports both management decision making and regulatory readiness
What the job involves
- The Compliance Officer will help build and operationalize key components of our global privacy program within the Enterprise Compliance Risk Management (ECRM) team
- In this role, you will support Senior Management by leading and coordinating core privacy workstreams such as our Record of Processing Activities, Data Protection Impact Assessments, incident response and reporting, and oversight of the data privacy champion network
- You will also help support expansion into adjacent privacy domains, including HIPAA and AI related governance, while partnering closely with Compliance leadership, Legal, Security, Product and other stakeholders
- This role blends project management and privacy operations to ensure that our data privacy framework is robust, auditable, and fit for a fast scaling business
- Support investigations into privacy related inquiries and issues, including potential incidents, near misses, and data handling concerns, ensuring responses are timely, structured, and well documented
- Work with business and technical owners to capture accurate, current information on data uses, purposes, legal bases, transfers, and retention
- Support on privacy assessment processes, including scoping, information gathering, risk analysis, documentation of mitigations, and follow up on agreed actions
- Partner closely with colleagues in ECRM, Legal, Security, Product, Engineering, and relevant business units, as well as the data privacy champion network, to embed privacy controls into day to day operations
- Develop and improve privacy related policies, standards, procedures, and model responses, including playbooks for incident response, data subject rights, and regulatory inquiries
- Serve as a go to privacy resource for the wider organization when questions arise about new data uses, system changes, third party processors, or potential privacy risks, escalating complex matters to Senior Management and Legal as appropriate
- Diagnose privacy issues across processes and systems, propose pragmatic remediation steps, and track completion of those actions to closure, including for RoPA and DPIA related findings
- Perform analysis on privacy metrics and trends to identify opportunities to improve processes, system configurations, and training for the data privacy champion network and broader teams
- Communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, including preparing concise summaries, dashboards, and reports for Senior Management in ECRM
- Measure and report on the impact of privacy initiatives and projects, including progress on RoPA completeness, DPIA coverage, incident response timelines, and the maturity of new domains such as HIPAA and AI governance
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain: financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field, AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it has now set its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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