About Us

At Showbie, we’re building tools to help teachers transform their classrooms by delivering faster, more engaging, and more impactful feedback and assessment to their students. Our apps, Showbie and Socrative, are used by millions of teachers and students in classrooms worldwide.

We are proudly based in Edmonton, Canada, but we have a growing global team located across Canada and Europe, primarily in the United Kingdom and Norway.

We are comprised of people who are passionate about empowering educators as they use technology to redefine and improve their classrooms. Our values of tenacity, caring, and curiosity guide our attitudes and actions each day.

The Role

Showbie is looking for a Data Privacy & Compliance Specialist that will support the business in the governance of data compliance, ensure our teams comply with laws, regulations and best practices related to data handling. This posting is for a temporary 18 month position covering a maternity leave on the team. This role involves identifying, analyzing, and mitigating risks, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, and implementing governance frameworks. The Data Privacy & Compliance Specialist will work closely with various departments (including Legal, Product, Engineering, Sales and Customer Experience) to align their activities with the organization's strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the main point of contact and an expert in privacy compliance.
• Collaborate with Product development teams to ensure data compliance of software changes.
• Respond to third-party requests, including customer questions, related to Showbie's information security and compliance activities.
• Author and review privacy and information security resources, policies and procedures for both internal teams and customer facing content.
  
• Perform risk assessments and business impact analysis on new vendors, technologies and system implementations.
• Coordinate and track information technology and security-related audits and assessments.
• Develop and implement training programs and raise awareness of data protection and privacy issues among internal teams.
• Coordinate responses to privacy incidents and breaches, internal audits, investigations and interact with local data protection authorities, when required.
  
• Assist with ensuring Showbie's continued compliance with all applicable requirements, policies, and regulations.

You

• 3-5 years of experience in governance, risk management, and/or compliance in a technical, or administrative capacity.
• You have good knowledge of global data privacy laws, and the ability to interpret and apply such laws, in Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
  
• Understanding in privacy and compliance regulations is highly desirable specifically around GDPR, ISO, SOC, NIST.
• Strong collaboration skills when conducting research and completing projects involving multiple teams and stakeholders in the company.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, ability to communicate complex information in an clear and concise way.
  
• Experience working in an international environment, across different jurisdictions and languages.
• Experience working with cloud-based software.
  

What You Can Expect From Us

• At Showbie be 100% yourself. We like it that way. We welcome all team members (and candidates) and celebrate your diverse voice. Regardless of race, gender, orientation, sexual identity, economic class, ability, disability, age, religious belief, or status, we want to meet you!
• Remote-first forever; considering a big life change? Want to try working from another country? We will work with you to allow you to work from wherever.
• The autonomy to make decisions and execute them. We’re growing, but we’re a small team. Everything you do makes a difference and your input will always be celebrated.
• Transparency. You will always be kept up to date on the company strategy through monthly town halls.
• While our head office is based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, we'll help to ensure you are set up for success in your remote work environment.
• We offer a flexible work environment. Work from the office, or from home, or any combination of the two. Because sometimes you do your best work in your slippers.
• We value work-life balance. When we're at work we're excited and focused on building a great product. We also know that going “home” (or simply closing your laptop) and not working weekends or Christmas makes us even more excited to come to work and do great things.
  
• While we take government holidays off, if they aren't ones that align with your personal or cultural beliefs, we have a swapping program that ensures you get the days that work best for you.
• Casual afternoon socials, monthly team events, hackathons, awesome Holiday parties, and a team that actually likes to hang out with one another.
  
• Generous flex time and time off during December Holidays.
  

Check out our Work at Showbie page to learn a little bit about our company culture and the benefits we offer to our team. We pride ourselves on a company culture that values the whole you. We like to have fun as much as we like to work.

This role is an 18 month contract position covering a maternity leave.

This role is based in: UK with the option to work 100% remotely.

The proposed compensation range for this role is: £20-25 GBP/hr

Don't meet all the expectations, or experience requirements listed here? Please apply anyways! We are committed to working with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please just let us know.