Risk & Data Security Manager

About Us

At Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good with their charitable giving. Since launching in 2015, our community of over 2,200 members has pledged nearly $13.6B and donated $1.8B+ to the charitable sector in 45+ countries.

We provide end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a global network of experts. In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our members include founders and leaders behind companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.

We focus on deploying capital where it can achieve the greatest impact, guided by evidence, careful analysis, and long-term thinking.

Salary circa £45,000–£60,000 depending on location

About the Role

The Risk & Data Security Manager owns the day-to-day execution, auditing, and continuous improvement of our risk management frameworks and data protection policies. With an increased focus on AI and Data Security, you will balance maintaining a secure environment as we scale, with supporting our team to innovate and use AI responsibly.

Reporting to the Head of Legal & Risk, this role ensures our global policies and processes are watertight against fraud, phishing, data breaches, operational errors and other potential risk events.

What You'll Do

• Risk Management
• Maintain the Enterprise Risk Register, collaborating with risk owners to identify, assess, and implement mitigation controls.
• Maintain risk management tools to measure probability and impact accurately.
• Investigate, monitor and record risk events, proactively raising organizational awareness of threats and driving post-mortem reviews to prevent recurrence.
• Manage the organization’s global insurance coverage portfolio.
• Support the Head of Legal & Risk in preparing materials for the Audit & Risk Committee (ARC), including the Quarterly Risk Report which is shared with the US and UK Boards as well as the ARC.
• Data Protection & Security
• Act as the internal champion and primary operational contact for data protection (eg GDPR).
• Manage the day-to-day relationship with our external Data Protection Officer (DPO; currently Legal Nodes).
• Conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments and risk reviews on new products, platforms, and vendors, including security, GDPR, and data-handling reviews
• Compliance Operations
• Maintain the global compliance tracking framework.
• Coordinate international filings (eg US filings, German annual activity reports) for review by the Head of Legal.
• Partner across the org to ensure data security best practices are baked into our architecture, that policies are robust and regularly reviewed, and are appropriately audited.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

You’ll have

• 4+ years in risk management, compliance, or data protection.
• Strong foundational knowledge of data protection and basic data security principles.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, impact driven environment
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with experience of delivering through colleagues.
• Exceptional analytical skills with a knack for spotting operational vulnerabilities and designing simple, elegant controls to fix them.
• Attention to detail
• Numeracy skills.

LOCATION & TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

You’ll need to be within commutable distance of London, to sit in our office 1-2 days per week (or more if you wish!). Our team is globally distributed across the UK and US, so comfort working across time zones is important.

APPLICATION DEADLINE

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled

Why Work With Us?

We're a diverse team, from both charitable and commercial backgrounds, who believe remarkable things happen when people tackle hard problems together. We offer real ownership, a flat structure, and the chance to help shape the future of strategic philanthropy.

You can find more about the benefits we offer here , but what makes us truly special is our mission and people. We’re a diverse team from charitable and commercial backgrounds who believe amazing things can happen when we tackle problems together. We’re building a learning-driven advisory environment - one where advisors not only support member journeys but also co-create the tools, frameworks, and resources that elevate how our community gives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Founders Pledge. We seek people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share our drive to understand and solve complex social challenges.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems requires different perspectives and unique ways of thinking, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can do their best work.

If you’re excited about our mission but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.