Privacy Program Specialist

About the Company:

World is building a real human network designed to accelerate people in the age of AI. As bots and autonomous agents reshape the internet, people, institutions, and applications need a trusted way to confirm who is a real human while preserving privacy. Our products make this possible: the Orb verifies real people, World ID proves it privately, and World App enables and distributes the new applications made possible by this technology. Together, they form a new layer for AI internet.

We’re one of the fastest-growing networks in tech. More than 17 million people across 160 countries have verified with World ID, and we complete over 350,000 verifications each week. World App is already among the most used wallets globally. Developers are integrating World ID to build safer online experiences and create spaces where real people can participate, earn, and be recognized in ways AI simply can’t replicate.

World was founded in 2019 and launched globally in 2023. We are more than 400 people across hardware, software, AI, cryptography, mobile engineering, and global operations. Our teams come from OpenAI, Tesla, SpaceX, Apple, Google, Stripe, Meta, Coinbase, Palantir and MIT Media Lab. We’re backed by leading investors, including a16z, Khosla Ventures, Bain Capital Crypto, Blockchain Capital, Variant, Tiger Global, and Coinbase Ventures, as well as prominent operators and founders across fintech and AI.

World has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, highlighted in Fast Company’s Next 5 in Fintech, and explored in a Bloomberg deep dive. The New York Times, Bankless and TechCrunch have all recognized our progress in identity, cryptography, AI, and global-scale hardware deployment. Our leadership is also named to the Time AI 100. Learn more about the newest product launches from our Unwrapped event.

This opportunity would be with Tools for Humanity.

About the Team:

The Legal team is responsible for all of World’s legal affairs globally. We partner cross-company to help advance the blockchain project, improve our products (hardware device, wallet app, and Proof of Personhood), and ensure regulatory compliance in areas such as securities, AML/CFT, consumer protection, privacy, litigation, trade, IP, and labor, among others.

About the Opportunity:

This role will support the Privacy Program Lead and the broader privacy legal team. This role contributes to the implementation and execution of privacy program operations, supports risk assessments, coordinates privacy compliance tasks, helps maintain key privacy documentation, and ensures consistent privacy practices across the organization in all jurisdictions we operate in. You’ll help operationalize privacy strategy into repeatable processes, manage day-to-day privacy tasks, and support cross-functional privacy work that drives compliance and safeguards user trust.

In this role, you will:

• Support the execution of the company’s privacy compliance program, aligning operations with global and regional privacy laws and frameworks (e.g., GDPR, LGPD, CCPA).
  

• Assist in creating, updating, and maintaining privacy documentation, including policies, standards, procedures, and internal guidelines.

• Help maintain privacy inventories, Records of Processing Activities (RoPA), and other compliance artifacts.

• Assist with privacy risk assessments, privacy impact assessments (PIAs/DPIAs), and data protection threshold assessments.

• Help track regulatory developments and prepare summaries for the Privacy Program Lead and Legal team.

• Work with cross-functional teams (e.g., Product, Engineering, Security) to ensure privacy requirements are incorporated into business processes and projects.

• Support operational processes for responding to data subject access requests (DSARs), deletion requests, and other privacy-related requests.

• Help coordinate privacy assessments of vendors and third parties, including information gathering and documentation.

• Contribute to the development and delivery of privacy training and awareness materials for internal teams to support a privacy-aware culture.

• Collaborate closely with Legal, Product, Security, Compliance, and Business Operations to drive consistent, practical privacy compliance outcomes.

About you:

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Privacy, Data Protection, Information Security, or a related field.

• 2–5 years of professional experience in privacy, compliance, data protection, or related operational functions (in-house counsel, privacy program support, risk/compliance teams, etc.).

• Experience supporting privacy program execution in a dynamic environment is a plus.

• Knowledge of major privacy laws and frameworks (e.g., GDPR, LGPD, CCPA/CPRA) and familiarity with global privacy issues.

• Experience assisting with privacy impact assessments (PIAs/DPIAs), vendor risk assessments and data subject request responses is desirable.

• Capable of defining an agenda and ensuring it gets done on time and efficiently, along the way demonstrating judgment, practicality, resourcefulness, proactivity, and attention to detail.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Proven project management skills with experience leading cross-functional initiatives.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

• A proactive and collaborative team player with a positive attitude and sense of humor.