About Transcend

Transcend is the privacy platform that makes it easy to encode privacy across your tech stack.

We believe that engineering privacy rights and making them easily accessible to the world is one of the most high-impact ways we can spend our time. That's why we're building an ambitious team that’s passionate about solving the important problems of the future and having fun while doing it. We’re backed by Accel, Index, 01A, StepStone Group, and HighlandX growing fast, and are serving some of the most iconic brands in the world.

(Even if you don't see a good fit below, we'd still love to stay in touch. Email us at recruiting@transcend.io).

About the role

Transcend is launching our first-ever Digital Executive in Residence program—and we’re seeking a transformative digital leader to guide the next evolution of data-driven growth. As our Digital Executive in Residence, you’ll sit at the intersection of digital transformation and data privacy, helping executives modernize their customer data strategies while ensuring real-time permissioning is built into the infrastructure that powers personalization, loyalty, and AI.

This short-term, high-impact role is modeled on our successful CISO in Residence program. It’s designed for someone who’s shaped digital innovation at the executive level and can now share their insights with the broader market—especially as consent and preference management shift from compliance tasks to growth-critical infrastructure.

At Transcend, we’ve seen firsthand how fast-growing enterprises are re-architecting data systems to enable trusted, real-time decision-making. As our Digital Executive in Residence, you’ll play a key role in guiding this shift—helping product, marketing, and privacy leaders evolve toward intelligent, consent-aware digital experiences.

Please Note: This is a six-month engagement, with the option to extend at the end of the period. Travel requirements may range from 20-40% depending on location. This is a remote role but preferred locations include San Francisco, New York, or Washington, D.C.

What you'll do

• Advise the Field: Share expertise with Transcend customers and prospects—especially CMOs, CDOs, Heads of Personalization, and Digital leaders—on how to build scalable, consent-aware digital systems that power AI, growth, and trust.

• Elevate the Narrative: Help advance how the industry talks about consent and preference management—reframing it as an essential layer for data readiness, not just legal compliance.

• Co-create with Transcend: Collaborate with our product, marketing, and leadership teams to shape our roadmap, voice, and go-to-market strategies around digital transformation.

• Lead with Insight: Create and share thought leadership on topics like consent-aware personalization, enterprise data strategy, or AI-enablement, informed by real-world experience.

• Build Executive Bridges: Help align privacy with digital, product, and marketing priorities inside complex organizations—especially those in regulated or data-heavy industries.

Who you are

• 10+ years of executive-level experience in digital, data, or marketing transformation (e.g. Chief Digital Officer, CMO, VP of Personalization, or Head of Data Strategy).

• Proven track record leading enterprise-scale efforts to modernize customer data infrastructure or roll out consent/preference modernization across stacks.

• Experience with personalization at scale, AI readiness, customer lifecycle strategy, and/or global growth enablement in data-rich industries (e.g. SaaS, healthcare, fintech, consumer tech)

• No prior privacy or data governance experience required. 

• Strong storytelling and communication skills, including experience presenting to boards, media/conferences, and executive peers.

• Deep empathy for both growth-minded product/marketing teams and privacy/security partners trying to move fast while staying compliant.

Why join us?

The people at Transcend are driven, kind and know how to balance work, life and memes. We learn from each other and have a strong support system. 

You’re joining a fast growing start up, with opportunities to help define and grow the organization.

We have a strong mission to protect user privacy rights everywhere. The privacy compliance landscape is growing, and we are at the forefront of building solutions that protect user privacy rights with modern infrastructure and automation.

You will have autonomy and trust to drive initiatives from the start.

We believe that turning the principles of data privacy into exercisable human rights is one of the most high-impact ways we can spend our time, and so we're building an ambitious team that’s passionate about solving important problems and having fun while doing it.

As the best-in-class solution in a new market, Transcend is a fast-paced and exciting workplace. The product evolves quickly to meet new client needs and adapts to the rapidly advancing world of privacy law. As one of Transcend’s earliest hires, you’ll get to work on a wide array of exciting projects.

Additional Information

Transcend is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity, inclusion and belonging. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with applicable law.

Our comprehensive compensation packages play a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to bringing data rights to everyone.

Full Time Employee Benefits

Taking Care of You and Yours ⭐

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance: 80% coverage for you, and 50% coverage for all your dependents.
• Voluntary disability insurance: short-term disability, long-terms disability, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
• Free One Medical membership sponsored by us.
• Access to our EAP (Employee Assistance Program).
• Flexible PTO 🌴

• Take as many vacation, sick, and mental health days as you need.
• 13 additional company holidays, plus 4 Transcend Days Off.
• Generous parental leave, caregiver, emergency, and compassionate leave policies.

Setting You Up For Success 💳 🥐

• A unique and diverse remote-first company culture, shaped by people with entrepreneurial mindset who build together and aim for excellence always.
• $360 a month for all meals.
• Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, and healthcare expenses.
• Meaningful equity.
• Company retreats.