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Data Protection Specialist jobs are open across healthcare, financial services, technology, and government contracting, at every level from entry-level analyst to senior and principal, with specializations in privacy compliance, data governance, and incident response. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
Role Overview:
As a Product Owner, you’ll turn product vision and strategy into the features, priorities and day-to-day decisions that enable a team to deliver meaningful customer and business value. You’ll translate customer needs into a clear feature roadmap and actionable backlog, define user stories and acceptance criteria, and prioritize work across competing business, customer and delivery needs. You’ll serve as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and development teams, coordinating dependencies, resolving issues and driving features from definition through production and release.
This is a role for someone who can connect the big picture to the details required to deliver it—bringing clarity to what the team should build and why, making thoughtful prioritization and trade-off decisions, and staying accountable for product quality, team-level outcomes and continuous improvement. Protection-Powered Growth is New York Life’s planning approach for helping households build financial security, with protection as the foundation for long-term growth.
Within the Field Experience value stream, you’ll help bring it to life by building the next-generation financial planning ecosystem that agents and advisors use to guide clients through the full planning conversation, from understanding a household’s needs to building, delivering and revisiting their plan. Working under the direction of the Product Manager, Protection-Powered Growth Planning, you’ll translate the broader product direction into team-level delivery priorities for the capabilities that make every plan work behind the scenes: the planning data, calculations, integrations and enterprise services that power connected planning experiences and the products that depend on them. You’ll partner closely with a peer Product Owner focused on the user-facing planning experience for agents, advisors and clients.
What You'll Do:
- Translate planning data and integration needs into features; define acceptance criteria for data, modeling and integration work in partnership with Technology, Data, AI, Actuarial and financial planning SMEs
- Manage enabling dependencies; coordinate across shared services, external technology partners and consuming products so planning capabilities are accurate, traceable and reliable
- Clarify build-versus-integrate decisions; for each enabling capability, define what the team builds, what it integrates from partners or shared platforms, and how data and calculations stay consistent, traceable and ready for compliance review
- Translate product vision into the backlog; develop user stories and acceptance criteria aligned to PM epics and customer needs
- Prioritize and sequence product features; align team backlog requirements to AI-driven insights, business, and customer needs
- Break down data requirements; ensure timely and quality delivery of product functionality leveraging AI and automation tools
- Manage the team-level backlog and roadmap; oversee bug fixes, maintenance, and product quality accountability
- Deliver features from creation to production; ensure organizational and go-to-market readiness at release
- Coordinate dependencies; Identify, manage and resolve team-level and cross-team dependencies
- Collaborate with the PM; prioritize and implement process improvement opportunities
- Collaborate with data governance SMEs; meet data standards across applications
- Define competencies and deliver on team OKRs; support team member development and track progress to stakeholders
What You'll Bring:
- 6+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis or related delivery roles, including at least 3 years as a Product Owner or Product Manager in an Agile environment (SAFe preferred).
- Experience delivering data-intensive or integration-dependent product features; experience with financial modeling, regulated calculations or shared enterprise capabilities is a plus.
- Familiarity with APIs, data models and integrating fintech or vendor platforms into enterprise products.
- Experience translating a broader product vision and strategy into a feature roadmap, prioritized backlog and actionable work for a delivery team.
- Strong product backlog management and sprint-planning experience across the full release lifecycle, including user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement and release planning.
- Experience driving features from definition through production and release, with strong attention to product quality and organizational and go-to-market readiness.
- Strong understanding of customer journeys, customer experience and usability principles, with the ability to incorporate customer and stakeholder feedback into product decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to identify, manage and resolve team-level and cross-team dependencies and build productive relationships across business, technology, Agile and platform teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience serving as a bridge between business stakeholders and development teams.
- Experience defining, tracking and communicating team-level OKRs and using performance measures to improve delivery and product outcomes.
- Strong Agile execution skills and hands-on experience with Jira or equivalent tools for backlog management, sprint tracking and release management.
- Digital, data and AI fluency, including the ability to translate data and technical requirements into actionable work and use AI-enabled tools and automation to improve team delivery.
- Strong knowledge of insurance or financial-services business processes and customer needs, or demonstrated ability to quickly build domain expertise in a regulated industry.
- A working style grounded in ownership, accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
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Job Level: LEVELPF5
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $119,000-$170,000
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life’s leadership in this space.
Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.
Job Requisition ID: 95341
Job Description
Requisition ID
Department
Job Function
Location
Role Location Designation
Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
Role Overview:
As a Product Owner, you’ll turn product vision and strategy into the features, priorities and day-to-day decisions that enable a team to deliver meaningful customer and business value. You’ll translate customer needs into a clear feature roadmap and actionable backlog, define user stories and acceptance criteria, and prioritize work across competing business, customer and delivery needs. You’ll serve as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and development teams, coordinating dependencies, resolving issues and driving features from definition through production and release.
This is a role for someone who can connect the big picture to the details required to deliver it—bringing clarity to what the team should build and why, making thoughtful prioritization and trade-off decisions, and staying accountable for product quality, team-level outcomes and continuous improvement. Protection-Powered Growth is New York Life’s planning approach for helping households build financial security, with protection as the foundation for long-term growth.
Within the Field Experience value stream, you’ll help bring it to life by building the next-generation financial planning ecosystem that agents and advisors use to guide clients through the full planning conversation, from understanding a household’s needs to building, delivering and revisiting their plan. Working under the direction of the Product Manager, Protection-Powered Growth Planning, you’ll translate the broader product direction into team-level delivery priorities for the capabilities that make every plan work behind the scenes: the planning data, calculations, integrations and enterprise services that power connected planning experiences and the products that depend on them. You’ll partner closely with a peer Product Owner focused on the user-facing planning experience for agents, advisors and clients.
What You'll Do:
- Translate planning data and integration needs into features; define acceptance criteria for data, modeling and integration work in partnership with Technology, Data, AI, Actuarial and financial planning SMEs
- Manage enabling dependencies; coordinate across shared services, external technology partners and consuming products so planning capabilities are accurate, traceable and reliable
- Clarify build-versus-integrate decisions; for each enabling capability, define what the team builds, what it integrates from partners or shared platforms, and how data and calculations stay consistent, traceable and ready for compliance review
- Translate product vision into the backlog; develop user stories and acceptance criteria aligned to PM epics and customer needs
- Prioritize and sequence product features; align team backlog requirements to AI-driven insights, business, and customer needs
- Break down data requirements; ensure timely and quality delivery of product functionality leveraging AI and automation tools
- Manage the team-level backlog and roadmap; oversee bug fixes, maintenance, and product quality accountability
- Deliver features from creation to production; ensure organizational and go-to-market readiness at release
- Coordinate dependencies; Identify, manage and resolve team-level and cross-team dependencies
- Collaborate with the PM; prioritize and implement process improvement opportunities
- Collaborate with data governance SMEs; meet data standards across applications
- Define competencies and deliver on team OKRs; support team member development and track progress to stakeholders
What You'll Bring:
- 6+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis or related delivery roles, including at least 3 years as a Product Owner or Product Manager in an Agile environment (SAFe preferred).
- Experience delivering data-intensive or integration-dependent product features; experience with financial modeling, regulated calculations or shared enterprise capabilities is a plus.
- Familiarity with APIs, data models and integrating fintech or vendor platforms into enterprise products.
- Experience translating a broader product vision and strategy into a feature roadmap, prioritized backlog and actionable work for a delivery team.
- Strong product backlog management and sprint-planning experience across the full release lifecycle, including user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement and release planning.
- Experience driving features from definition through production and release, with strong attention to product quality and organizational and go-to-market readiness.
- Strong understanding of customer journeys, customer experience and usability principles, with the ability to incorporate customer and stakeholder feedback into product decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to identify, manage and resolve team-level and cross-team dependencies and build productive relationships across business, technology, Agile and platform teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience serving as a bridge between business stakeholders and development teams.
- Experience defining, tracking and communicating team-level OKRs and using performance measures to improve delivery and product outcomes.
- Strong Agile execution skills and hands-on experience with Jira or equivalent tools for backlog management, sprint tracking and release management.
- Digital, data and AI fluency, including the ability to translate data and technical requirements into actionable work and use AI-enabled tools and automation to improve team delivery.
- Strong knowledge of insurance or financial-services business processes and customer needs, or demonstrated ability to quickly build domain expertise in a regulated industry.
- A working style grounded in ownership, accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
#LI - EM1
#LI - HYBRID
Job Level: LEVELPF5
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $119,000-$170,000
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life’s leadership in this space.
Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.
Job Requisition ID: 95341
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Who's Hiring
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- Technology & Software
- Insurance
- Retail
- Law & Legal Services
- Banking & Financial Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in data protection specialist jobs.
- Knowledge of privacy regulations including GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and applicable state laws
- Professional certification such as CIPP, CIPM, CISM, or CISSP
- Experience conducting privacy impact assessments and data protection impact assessments
- Ability to develop and implement data governance policies and procedures
- Familiarity with data classification tools, consent management platforms, and audit logging systems
- Bachelor's degree in information security, law, computer science, or a related field
Tips for Your Data Protection Specialist Job Search
Align your resume to specific frameworks
Data protection roles are often tied to specific regulatory frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, or CCPA. Tailor each resume version to call out the frameworks relevant to that employer's industry, not every framework you've touched.
Lead with certifications above experience
Hiring managers for data protection roles screen for CIPP, CIPM, or CISM credentials before reading work history. Put your active certifications in a dedicated section near the top, and note the issuing body and year earned.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists data protection specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target job postings by regulation keyword
Search for the specific regulation your experience covers, such as HIPAA privacy officer or CCPA compliance specialist, rather than the generic title. These searches surface postings where your background is a direct match and competition is narrower.
Prepare a data incident case study
Interviewers for data protection roles consistently ask how you've handled a breach or near-miss. Have one real example ready that walks through detection, containment, notification obligations, and what you changed afterward to prevent recurrence.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Data protection specialists frequently inherit under-resourced programs. Before accepting an offer, ask which regulations the program currently covers, the size of the team, and whether there is an existing data inventory, so you understand what you're walking into.
Data Protection Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most data protection specialists?
The most active employers for data protection specialists right now are Deloitte, Hewlett Packard Enterprise | HPE, and Intuit, and the most openings are in Virginia, California, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, financial institutions, and federal contractors tend to post the highest volume of these roles year-round.
How many data protection specialist jobs are remote?
About 89% of data protection specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for distributed compliance talent. Privacy advisory, policy writing, and regulatory reporting functions tend to be the most remote-friendly, while roles that require on-site access to classified systems or physical records are more likely to require in-person work.
How do you become a data protection specialist?
Start by building a foundation in information security or privacy law through a relevant degree or self-study, then earn a recognized credential such as a CIPP or CISM certification. Gain hands-on experience by working in compliance, IT audit, or legal operations roles where you handle personal data. Progress by owning a full regulatory program, leading an incident response, or building a data governance framework from scratch.
Can you get hired as a data protection specialist without direct experience?
Yes, employers do hire candidates from adjacent backgrounds, particularly IT security, legal compliance, healthcare administration, or risk management. Earning a CIPP certification before applying signals serious intent and closes much of the experience gap. Applying to junior-titled roles such as privacy analyst or compliance coordinator is a practical entry point, since those positions are explicitly designed for candidates building toward specialist-level responsibilities.
What does the data protection specialist interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four stages. An initial recruiter screen is followed by a technical or functional interview where you walk through your experience with specific regulations and tools. A panel interview typically includes stakeholders from legal, IT, and sometimes the business unit the role supports. Some employers add a written exercise asking you to assess a mock data processing scenario or draft a brief privacy policy section.
Where can I find and apply to data protection specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to data protection specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your regulatory background and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing that fits your experience and target industry.
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