The posting
At Aceve, we back the builders of society. Founded in the Nordics and growing across Europe, we build digital tools for the people who construct and maintain our physical world - giving electricians, plumbers, and contractors back their time, clarity, and confidence. With over 900 employees across 8 countries, leading brands in 7 customer markets, and more than €100M in revenue, we're on an ambitious growth journey, and we're just getting started. We're an AI-first company, and we work with grit, openness, and a good dose of joy.
About the role:
We're hiring the person who builds our privacy framework from the ground up, and who shapes how a fast-scaling, multi-national SaaS business handles data and AI as we grow. This is a builder's role, not a caretaker's one. Most privacy hires inherit a framework and keep the lights on. You'll do the opposite. You'll build and refine the policies, the DPIA and DPA methodology, the training and the operating model that makes privacy integral across Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, and AI development. You'll report to our General Counsel and harmonise practice across group companies at very different stages of maturity, across Europe and the UK, giving them one standard worth building on. You've done this before and the challenge excites you.
What will you do:
- Build and maintain our privacy framework including Group Record of Processing Activities, our DPIA methodology and DPAs across every ACEVE entity and label
- Be the first person local entities and functions call with a privacy question and give them a straight, workable answer instead of reciting the law
- Keep our use of AI honest: make sure personal data processed by AI and ML in products and tools complies with GDPR and the EU AI Act and use AI tools yourself, in Claude or Copilot, to move faster through your own DPIA and DPA work
- Track privacy work across entities, spot the gaps, and escalate the risks that actually matter
- Build and run ongoing privacy training and awareness across Group companies
- Own and refine our breach response process, pulling in the right people from local entities fast enough to hit statutory deadlines
- Run privacy assessments on new systems, tools, and vendors, and follow up directly with IT, HR and the vendors themselves
We believe you have:
- 8+ years of senior privacy experience, built across a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction organisation, ideally spanning the UK and EU
- A real track record of standing up privacy programmes, including harmonizing practice across companies that started at very different levels of maturity
- The kind of person who earns trust with Engineering, Product, and Commercial teams by showing value, and who stays consistent when a sales deadline or product launch is pushing back on a requirement
- Comfort operating at every altitude: briefing leadership on strategy one day, reviewing a DPIA line by line with an engineer the next
- Hands-on experience with RoPA, DPIAs, data flows, and vendor privacy assessments
- A practical, confident way of using AI day to day, including building your own tools in Claude or Copilot to speed up DPIA and DPA work
- No fixed background required. Privacy professionals and lawyers are equally welcome here. What matters is what you've built before
Bonus Points For:
- A formal privacy qualification (CIPP/E, CIPM, or similar) or legal training, on top of real build experience
- Time spent in a PE or VC-backed scale-up moving fast through growth
- Experience presenting privacy strategy straight to a board or exec team
Not ticking every box? No worries! We value potential and drive, so apply anyway or connect with us- you might be just what we're looking for in our growing organisation! Join Aceve and take your expertise to the next level, together we are redefining what’s possible in craft and construction solutions!
Aceve is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our selection process is conducted continuously and without discrimination, ensuring an equal opportunity for all candidates.
