Senior Data Protection Specialist, Data Governance (W/M/X)

Within Ubisoft International Headquarters, you will join the Ubisoft Data Office, responsible for Ubisoft's Data Strategy, Governance, and a variety of data services and products for storing, processing, distributing, analyzing, and surfacing data across the company. You will join the Data Governance team. As Senior Data Protection Specialist, you will play a key role in leading the way towards ensuring Ubisoft's data protection, encompassing both regulatory compliance and security & access management topics. Responsibilities

• Lead, plan, execute and monitor several Data Protection initiatives and all the associated streams of work.
• Analize business & technology teams' needs from a Data Protection perspective (Regulatory compliance -including but not limited to Privacy and AI-, and Security & Access) and identify & implement adequate solutions, leveraging your data expertise and background to adapt them to data experts' and Ubisoft's realities.
• Coordinate actions with business & production data teams and Data Owners to apply data protection measures to their assets and promote protection principles across the company.
• Drive change through Ubisoft by engaging your partners and progressively get to a target state where Data Protection is applied by default (Computational Data Governance).
• Monitor and ensure data protection across the company.
• Partner closely with Ubisoft technology teams to propose and coordinate the implementation of the right tools/platforms/solutions to support Data Protection principles and standards.
• Grow data teams skills and awareness about Data Protection through sharing, events, coaching/mentoring as well as Ubisoft employee's data protection culture.
• Track and report on progress & success and improve/adapt the framework constantly.
• Stay up to date on data industry trends and introduce them to the data department and practitioners across the company.
• Maintain a network of support and expertise.

• Strong experience as a data or data protection expert. Having acted as Data Protection specialist and/or technical project manager would be a plus.
• Experience in leading, coordinating and delivering programs composed of cross-functional moving parts and across multiple business and technology teams.
• Ability to collaborate with individuals at all hierarchical levels and with a wide range of functional and/or technical skills.
• Thorough knowledge of a company's business functions and their objectives.
• Ability to clearly articulate the value of Data Protection within the company.
• Critical thinking
• Ability to quickly adapt to change.
• Strong sense of ownership and a self-starter.
• Data and result oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. French would be a plus.