How you’ll fix communication in healthcare as a Privacy Lead...
As a key member of the Accurx Privacy Team, you will help build and embed a privacy-first culture across the organisation. You’ll engage with a wide range of stakeholders, navigating complex conversations with clarity and professionalism. Leading privacy projects from start to finish, you’ll ensure privacy is a core part of everything we do.
You will work closely with the Information Security Team and other experts to maintain compliance with regulatory and health data standards. Supporting the Head of Data Protection and CISO, you’ll help shape and drive our data protection strategy, continuously improving controls and processes.
A close partnership with Product teams is essential, so you’ll need a strong interest in how Accurx products work and how to support building compliant products with privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default principles. This broad role also includes compliance, advisory, and regulatory responsibilities
Your day to day tasks, should you choose to accept this mission 🤝…
- Act as Accurx’s expert on data protection laws including UK GDPR and PECR
- Act as a strategic partner to Product, Engineering, Go-to-Market teams and senior stakeholders to embed privacy by design and ensure compliance
- Recommend pragmatic, compliant, and scalable controls to mitigate privacy risks whilst enabling innovation
- Lead privacy risk assessments, data subject rights requests, and data breach responses
- Oversee and manage privacy risks related to third parties such as suppliers and vendors, ensuring they meet data protection standards
- Drive data protection audits and help maintain regulatory certifications
- Keep the business informed on privacy law changes and guide strategic privacy decisions
We'd really like to hear from you, if…
- You're an experienced privacy professional with strong knowledge of data protection laws, able to apply them pragmatically in fast-paced environments
- You're a consultative and clear communicator who builds trusted cross-functional relationships with product, engineering, GTM teams, and external partners
- You're risk-aware and a strategic thinker who balances compliance with business priorities, driving privacy initiatives end-to-end with accountability
- You're a proactive, self-reflective leader who learns from experience, owns projects fully, and communicates transparently to support effective decision-making
How You Work…
At Accurx we believe in making every day count as we hold a vital role in supporting our users by driving innovative solutions to fix healthcare communication. We want everyone at Accurx to reflect our principles in how they work by looking to:
⭐ Fix healthcare communication
⬆️ Raise the bar
🚙 Be a driver, not a passenger
🤲 Succeed together
💨 Move with urgency
♻️ Be relentlessly resourceful
☝️ Embrace challenge
Check them out for more detail here!
What We Can Offer...🤔
💰 £80,000 - £105,000 salary dependent on experience + the value of £50,750 share options
🤝 Access to Happl - a flexible benefits provider with a given budget of £600 to spend on perks of your choice. Options include private health insurance, wellness providers and more.
🏢 We are office first, all accuFolk come to our office in Shoreditch 3 days per week, with the option to work remotely 2 days a week. Read more about our policy here.
📚 Allocated annual learning & development budget
🐣 Enhanced parental leave policy
🙏 Prayer, meditation and breastfeeding room
🌴 Working abroad policy
👩🍳We have our very own Chef! Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches will be provided, with the occasional sweet treat!
Like the sound of this role and want to know more about the company? Here's more about us...
We’re a fast-growing healthcare technology company which makes it easier for patients and healthcare teams to communicate.
Accurx is where conversations happen with and about patients. Our software helps doctors, nurses, pharmacists, administrators and other professionals to seamlessly connect with both patients and each other.
Our mission is simple: everything we do is to make patients healthier and healthcare staff happier. Today, Accurx is used in 98% of GP practices nationwide and every day more healthcare professionals are using our software in hospitals, pharmacies, care homes and the community.
We’re passionate about staying close to our users, which is why everyone at Accurx visits a GP practice at least twice a quarter to understand how a practice runs, the difficulties they face with technologies and how we can help.
Head over to our main careers page to find out more about the team and our candidate hub.
You can also find out more about us on Medium, LinkedIn and Twitter & Instagram.
Our YouTube channel is full of demos of our product, webinars we have held with our users and some clips about life at Accurx.
Diversity & Inclusion
Accurx is committed to being an inclusive employer. As part of this, we’re glad to accommodate candidates who need adjustments throughout the interview process.
Pre-employment Screening
All successful candidates are asked to complete a
Basic DBS check along with other pre-employment checks (referencing & right to work). You can find more on our process here. If you’d like to ask questions before you apply please email
[email protected].
