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Schneider Electric has a hybrid opportunity for a Regional Privacy Governance & PMO Lead - NAM (Manager, Data & AI Risk Management) to help strengthen how privacy is governed, coordinated, monitored, and implemented across North America (NAM). This role is to be based in one of the following hub locations on a hybrid basis: Nashville, TN or Boston, MA.
In this role, you will be a key partner to NAM Privacy leadership, helping turn global privacy frameworks, priorities, and regulatory developments into clear regional actions. You will create the operating rhythm that connects local privacy teams, Legal, Cybersecurity, business stakeholders, and global Privacy Governance.
You will bring visibility to what is happening across NAM by maintaining the privacy governance calendar, tracking actions and risks, developing KPIs and dashboards, monitoring implementation plans, and ensuring issues are followed through to resolution.
Just as importantly, you will help build and animate an active NAM privacy community, creating the network and information flow required for privacy governance to work effectively across a complex multinational organization.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Privacy governance & PMO
- Own and coordinate the NAM privacy governance calendar, reviews, action tracking, decisions, deadlines, and escalation process.
- Maintain a consolidated view of regional privacy priorities, initiatives, obligations, risks, dependencies, and remediation activities.
- Coordinate with local teams to establish clear actions, owners, and deadlines and follow through to completion.
- Monitor local privacy implementation plans, controls, and supporting evidence.
- Identify gaps, delays, or unclear ownership and ensure they are appropriately escalated.
- Provide structured regional input into global privacy governance and executive reporting.
Analytics, monitoring & reporting
- Develop and maintain privacy dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and trend analysis for NAM.
- Provide governance visibility into privacy incidents, including volumes, status, response milestones, overdue actions, and lessons learned.
- Maintain consolidated visibility of individual-rights requests, including volumes, ownership, response times, and ageing.
- Turn operational information into clear, concise leadership insights, highlighting trends, risks, recurring issues, and areas requiring action.
- Maintain accurate action registers, decision logs, implementation records, and governance evidence.
Privacy framework & change implementation
- Support NAM implementation of global privacy policies, processes, tools, and initiatives.
- Help translate new or changing privacy requirements into structured regional actions and implementation plans.
- Track adoption and effectiveness of key privacy practices, including records of processing, consent governance, privacy risk assessments, and relevant contractual controls.
- Support privacy assurance activities, internal audits, and remediation plans.
- Identify common capability gaps or adoption challenges and coordinate appropriate support with Privacy Governance and subject matter experts.
Community & capability building
- Build and maintain a strong network across NAM, connecting local Privacy, Legal, Cybersecurity, Digital, business, and functional stakeholders.
- Run regular regional privacy forums covering regulatory developments, operational priorities, lessons learned, and global initiatives.
- Support onboarding, knowledge sharing, and capability building across the NAM privacy community.
- Create the communication and governance structure that allows information, risks, and actions to flow effectively between local teams and regional and global privacy leadership.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone who combines privacy knowledge with strong governance, PMO, analytical, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
You are likely to bring:
- Significant experience in privacy governance, compliance operations, risk, PMO, or a related field, ideally within a large multinational organization.
- Strong knowledge of privacy operations, frameworks, and controls.
- Experience translating privacy or compliance requirements into practical governance, monitoring, reporting, and action plans.
- Experience monitoring privacy operational activities, including privacy incidents and individual-rights requests.
- Strong program and project management skills, including action tracking, dependency management, deadlines, risk management, and escalation.
- Hands-on experience developing dashboards, KPIs, metrics, management reporting, and compliance calendars.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn complex information into concise, actionable insights for leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A demonstrated ability to coordinate and influence diverse stakeholders across functions and geographies without relying on direct authority.
- The ability to work independently, bring structure to ambiguity, and proactively drive actions forward.
- High standards of confidentiality, judgment, reliability, organization, and attention to detail.
- A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
You will be successful in this position if you can bring structure, visibility, and accountability to privacy activities across NAM. At any given point, regional Privacy leadership should have a clear understanding of what is happening, what actions are outstanding, who owns them, whether commitments are on track, where risks or gaps exist, and where escalation is required. Beyond reporting, you will help create an active and connected NAM privacy ecosystem that enables local teams to effectively implement privacy requirements while maintaining alignment with the broader global privacy framework.
Bring your risk management expertise to a team that's building the future responsibly—apply today!
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: USD 142,400 - USD 213,600 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
BENEFITS
At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.
Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: “We see you. We value you”. It’s more than just pay and benefits - it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.
Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:
Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, and 15 days of paid time off per year.
Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs including base salary, incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match.
Grow Your Skills and Career. We support development through performance discussions, global opportunities, the Schneider Career Hub, and learning platforms like Coursera.
Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage collaboration, recognition, sharing your voice, and an inclusive workplace.
Support Your Community. We make a difference through volunteer leave, programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation, youth education initiatives, and military leave benefits.
EEO STATEMENT
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
INTRODUCTION
Schneider Electric has a hybrid opportunity for a Regional Privacy Governance & PMO Lead - NAM (Manager, Data & AI Risk Management) to help strengthen how privacy is governed, coordinated, monitored, and implemented across North America (NAM). This role is to be based in one of the following hub locations on a hybrid basis: Nashville, TN or Boston, MA.
In this role, you will be a key partner to NAM Privacy leadership, helping turn global privacy frameworks, priorities, and regulatory developments into clear regional actions. You will create the operating rhythm that connects local privacy teams, Legal, Cybersecurity, business stakeholders, and global Privacy Governance.
You will bring visibility to what is happening across NAM by maintaining the privacy governance calendar, tracking actions and risks, developing KPIs and dashboards, monitoring implementation plans, and ensuring issues are followed through to resolution.
Just as importantly, you will help build and animate an active NAM privacy community, creating the network and information flow required for privacy governance to work effectively across a complex multinational organization.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Privacy governance & PMO
- Own and coordinate the NAM privacy governance calendar, reviews, action tracking, decisions, deadlines, and escalation process.
- Maintain a consolidated view of regional privacy priorities, initiatives, obligations, risks, dependencies, and remediation activities.
- Coordinate with local teams to establish clear actions, owners, and deadlines and follow through to completion.
- Monitor local privacy implementation plans, controls, and supporting evidence.
- Identify gaps, delays, or unclear ownership and ensure they are appropriately escalated.
- Provide structured regional input into global privacy governance and executive reporting.
Analytics, monitoring & reporting
- Develop and maintain privacy dashboards, KPIs, metrics, and trend analysis for NAM.
- Provide governance visibility into privacy incidents, including volumes, status, response milestones, overdue actions, and lessons learned.
- Maintain consolidated visibility of individual-rights requests, including volumes, ownership, response times, and ageing.
- Turn operational information into clear, concise leadership insights, highlighting trends, risks, recurring issues, and areas requiring action.
- Maintain accurate action registers, decision logs, implementation records, and governance evidence.
Privacy framework & change implementation
- Support NAM implementation of global privacy policies, processes, tools, and initiatives.
- Help translate new or changing privacy requirements into structured regional actions and implementation plans.
- Track adoption and effectiveness of key privacy practices, including records of processing, consent governance, privacy risk assessments, and relevant contractual controls.
- Support privacy assurance activities, internal audits, and remediation plans.
- Identify common capability gaps or adoption challenges and coordinate appropriate support with Privacy Governance and subject matter experts.
Community & capability building
- Build and maintain a strong network across NAM, connecting local Privacy, Legal, Cybersecurity, Digital, business, and functional stakeholders.
- Run regular regional privacy forums covering regulatory developments, operational priorities, lessons learned, and global initiatives.
- Support onboarding, knowledge sharing, and capability building across the NAM privacy community.
- Create the communication and governance structure that allows information, risks, and actions to flow effectively between local teams and regional and global privacy leadership.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
We are looking for someone who combines privacy knowledge with strong governance, PMO, analytical, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
You are likely to bring:
- Significant experience in privacy governance, compliance operations, risk, PMO, or a related field, ideally within a large multinational organization.
- Strong knowledge of privacy operations, frameworks, and controls.
- Experience translating privacy or compliance requirements into practical governance, monitoring, reporting, and action plans.
- Experience monitoring privacy operational activities, including privacy incidents and individual-rights requests.
- Strong program and project management skills, including action tracking, dependency management, deadlines, risk management, and escalation.
- Hands-on experience developing dashboards, KPIs, metrics, management reporting, and compliance calendars.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn complex information into concise, actionable insights for leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A demonstrated ability to coordinate and influence diverse stakeholders across functions and geographies without relying on direct authority.
- The ability to work independently, bring structure to ambiguity, and proactively drive actions forward.
- High standards of confidentiality, judgment, reliability, organization, and attention to detail.
- A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
You will be successful in this position if you can bring structure, visibility, and accountability to privacy activities across NAM. At any given point, regional Privacy leadership should have a clear understanding of what is happening, what actions are outstanding, who owns them, whether commitments are on track, where risks or gaps exist, and where escalation is required. Beyond reporting, you will help create an active and connected NAM privacy ecosystem that enables local teams to effectively implement privacy requirements while maintaining alignment with the broader global privacy framework.
Bring your risk management expertise to a team that's building the future responsibly—apply today!
COMPENSATION
- Salary Range: USD 142,400 - USD 213,600 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
BENEFITS
At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.
Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: “We see you. We value you”. It’s more than just pay and benefits - it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.
Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:
Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks, flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well-being programs, 12 holidays per year, and 15 days of paid time off per year.
Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs including base salary, incentives, company share ownership, and 401(k) with match.
Grow Your Skills and Career. We support development through performance discussions, global opportunities, the Schneider Career Hub, and learning platforms like Coursera.
Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage collaboration, recognition, sharing your voice, and an inclusive workplace.
Support Your Community. We make a difference through volunteer leave, programs with the Schneider Electric Foundation, youth education initiatives, and military leave benefits.
EEO STATEMENT
Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.
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Target multinationals with established U.S. entities
Companies with existing U.S. subsidiaries can sponsor Regional Lead roles under L-1A intracompany transferee visas, bypassing the H-1B lottery entirely. This path is fastest when you've worked for the parent company abroad for at least one year.
Document the specialty occupation clearly
USCIS scrutinizes management roles heavily. Your employer needs to show the position requires a specific bachelor's degree, not just any degree. Frame the role around specialized business functions like market strategy, P&L oversight, or regulatory compliance for a defined region.
Demonstrate regional scope, not just team size
Sponsorship approvals for Regional Lead roles hinge on showing genuine managerial authority across geographies. Org charts, budget responsibility, and multi-state or multi-country reporting structures all strengthen your employer's petition and reduce RFE risk significantly.
Use O-1A if you have measurable impact credentials
Regional Leads with documented achievements, such as revenue growth targets exceeded, awards, or press coverage, may qualify for O-1A extraordinary ability visas. This path has no lottery and no annual cap, making it worth exploring with an immigration attorney before defaulting to H-1B.
Confirm your employer has sponsored similar roles before
Employers who have previously filed H-1B or L-1 petitions for management roles move faster and make fewer mistakes. Ask recruiters directly whether the company has sponsored Regional Leads or similar senior titles before accepting any offer contingent on visa approval.
Align your degree field with the role description
If your degree is in a field that doesn't obviously connect to regional business leadership, work with your employer to tailor the job description. Highlighting functions like financial analysis, operations management, or strategic planning creates a clearer specialty occupation argument for USCIS.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a Regional Lead role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, but it requires careful framing. USCIS does not automatically accept management titles as specialty occupations. Your employer must demonstrate the role requires a specific bachelor's degree in a field like business administration, finance, or a related discipline, and that the duties involve specialized knowledge beyond general management. Vague job descriptions that could be filled by any degree holder are the most common reason for RFEs on these petitions.
Is the L-1A visa a better option than H-1B for Regional Lead positions?
For Regional Leads transferring from a foreign affiliate or parent company, the L-1A is often stronger. It has no lottery, no annual cap, and is specifically designed for managers and executives. You need at least one year of full-time employment with the related foreign entity in the past three years, and the U.S. role must involve managing people, a function, or a key component of the organization.
What degree does a Regional Lead typically need for visa sponsorship?
Most sponsoring employers require a bachelor's degree in business administration, management, finance, or a closely related field. USCIS looks for a direct connection between the degree field and the role's core duties. A general studies or unrelated degree can still work if you have three years of progressive, specialized work experience for each year of missing education, but this requires additional documentation and carries more petition risk.
How does USCIS evaluate Regional Lead petitions compared to other management roles?
USCIS scrutinizes Regional Lead and similar management titles more heavily than technical roles because the specialty occupation standard is harder to establish for business positions. Approval rates improve significantly when the petition includes a detailed job description, an organizational chart showing subordinate headcount, evidence of budget authority, and documentation that the role requires a specific degree rather than a general one. Working with an experienced immigration attorney materially reduces RFE rates for these filings.
Where can I find Regional Lead jobs that offer visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists Regional Lead roles from employers actively willing to sponsor work visas, so you're not wasting applications on companies that won't engage international candidates. Filtering by sponsorship availability upfront saves significant time, especially if you're working against an OPT or visa deadline. Browse open roles on Migrate Mate to identify employers who have a demonstrated track record of sponsoring management-level positions.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Regional Lead jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.