Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

This role provides a 1 year contract and a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Role description

Junior Privacy Specialists are responsible for a wide range of operational activities including but not limited to addressing privacy cases investigations and questions from data subjects as well as the orchestration and execution of privacy-related controls. They support projects and initiatives as per the Privacy Program Framework. They must have good communication and priority setting skills as well as attention to detail.

They are also expected to proactively identify opportunities for improvement and innovation within the Privacy and Data Protection Capability Area, and support the company's obligations in regard to data protection regulations and requirements.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Manage data subject rights requests (e.g., access, deletion, rectification) end-to-end, ensuring timely and compliant responses.

• Handle privacy-related complaints, including coordinating responses to regulatory authorities and supporting complaint resolution processes.

• Act as a first point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, responding to queries related to privacy and data protection.

• Support senior team members with complex privacy cases and investigations by gathering, analysing and validating relevant data across systems.

• Conduct investigations into potential privacy issues or incidents, identifying root causes and recommending appropriate mitigation actions.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to promote privacy awareness, share insights, and contribute to continuous improvement of privacy practices and processes.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Basic awareness of data protection and privacy concepts, including an understanding of the importance of protecting personal data and familiarity with general data subject rights (e.g., access, rectification, erasure) under GDPR.

• Ability to prioritize incoming escalations and requests appropriately using clear communications.

• Ability to investigate, retrieve and analyze data.

• Strong decision making ability and being self-disciplined.

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide

• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

• Competitive compensation and benefits package

• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

Pre-Employment Screening

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.