Vanya Rakesh
United Kingdom, London, UK
Privacy Program Manager at Meta
Profession: Privacy Program Manager
Industry: Hi-Tech
About:
I am a Privacy and Data Protection professional with extensive experience of 8 years spanning across multiple sectors and jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands as well as India. Currently working as a Privacy Program Manager with Meta (Facebook). I am an Advanced LL.M. Graduate from Leiden University, specializing in Law and Digital Technologies. I was awarded with the prestigious Leiden University Excellence Scholarship (LExS) for the Academic Year 2019-2020.
Experience:
Meta
Privacy Program Manager at Meta
May 2022 - Present • London, United Kingdom
Working as the lead PPM for one of the MetaWorks products (Workplace) under the Reality Labs pillar. Key responsibilities include leading privacy reviews, product development, and project management: Leading cross-functional privacy reviews, coordinating between the product manager, engineering manager, and legal/policy/security POCs to enable the launching of products, identifying privacy risks, and driving towards consensusbased risk mitigation solutions to address privacy-by-design challenges, facilitating discussions, and carrying out communication of the resolution with stakeholders. Ensure compliance by maintaining documentation for the audit process by tracking and documenting new product proposals, status updates, and key decisions. Volunteering to pod-wide projects for privacy-review process improvementsEducation:
Leiden University
2019 - 2020
Advanced LL.M. Graduate from Leiden Law School in Law and Digital Technologies.