Data Protection Analyst
Molten Ventures (formerly Draper Esprit) is a European venture capital firm that has spent twenty years backing founders and innovators driving Europe's technology transformation. It invests capital alongside experience, energy, and partnership to help visionary technology companies scale, serving high-growth startups and scale-ups across Europe.
About Molten Ventures
Molten Ventures is a publicly listed venture capital firm focused on backing visionary founders building Europe's technology future. Beyond providing capital, the firm offers portfolio companies experience, energy, and partnership to help them scale faster and go further. Its portfolio includes companies that have collectively reached more than 50 million customers, crossed the $200m ARR mark, sold more than 7 million devices, and achieved notable public market outcomes including IPOs at market caps of £1bn and nearly £9bn. The firm operates seed funds, evaluates new investment opportunities and pitch decks from founders, maintains an investor portal for its shareholders, and publishes sustainability reporting covering responsible investment and portfolio engagement practices.
Skills
About the Role
You will help shape privacy governance for a global AI compute business with complex data protection needs. You will maintain core privacy governance, support assessments, manage data subject requests and help investigate incidents. You will also deliver training, produce metrics and track legislative change across multiple jurisdictions. You will sit within Quality and Compliance, working closely with engineering, operations, IT, facilities and corporate functions. You will keep governance moving, flag risks early and help teams act within deadlines, and you will have space to speak up, challenge assumptions and improve how data protection works.
Requirements
- Experience in privacy, data protection, compliance, risk or a closely related field
- Working knowledge of UK & EU GDPR and how to apply it in practice
- Understanding of privacy risk assessments, data protection frameworks and supplier due diligence
- Strong organisation across governance records, data inventories, retention schedules and statutory deadlines
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical teams, including confidence to speak up
- Curiosity to track legislation, improve controls and turn privacy evidence into action
Responsibilities
- Maintain core privacy governance
- Support privacy risk assessments
- Manage data subject requests
- Help investigate data incidents
- Deliver privacy training
- Produce privacy metrics
- Track legislative change across multiple jurisdictions
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous leave
- Up to 5% matched pension
- Phantom equity
- Free food and on-site barista
- Income protection and life assurance
- Private medical insurance and dental cover options
- Dental cover, health cash plan, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, give as you earn