Privacy, Information Governance & eDiscovery Analyst

About the Role

The Privacy & Information Governance Team at Chainalysis is dedicated to ensuring the lawful, defensible, and operationally sound management of data throughout its lifecycle. This encompasses privacy compliance, data governance, retention and deletion protocols, and responding to legal requests such as subpoenas and court orders. The team acts as a liaison between Legal, Security, and business units, translating regulatory requirements into practical, auditable processes.

The Privacy & Information Governance eDiscover (PIGE) Analyst will be instrumental in managing the day-to-day operations of the privacy program, data governance, and compliance initiatives. This role focuses on transforming high-level policies into tangible controls, processes, and training accessible across the organization.

In This Role, You’ll

• Operationalize privacy and governance policies through procedures, playbooks, and workflows.
• Manage data subject rights requests (access, deletion, correction, opt-out).
• Partner with IT and Security to enforce retention schedules, deletion processes, and records management.
• Run Privacy Risk Management including Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA) and maintaining the Records of Processing Activities (RoPA).
• Run DPIAs, LIAs, and other risk assessments; maintain risk registers.
• Coordinate incident response with Security and Legal.
• Monitor compliance metrics and prepare reports for leadership.
• Deliver privacy and information governance training to employees.
• Serve as first-line contact for business teams on privacy and data handling questions.
• Execute legal holds, data preservation, and defensible collections and maintain chain of custody standards.
• Support subpoenas and investigations by preparing exports for review, and ensuring alignment with privacy and compliance requirements.

We’re Looking For Candidates Who Have

• 3–4 years of experience in privacy operations, compliance, or information governance.
• Strong knowledge of data subject rights and operational privacy requirements.
• Experience with records management, retention schedules, and data lifecycle processes.
• Ability to coordinate across IT, Legal, Security, and business functions.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Working knowledge of collaboration and cloud data sources (e.g., email, Slack, shared drives).
• Familiarity with retention, classification, and privacy considerations during collections.

You Might Also Have

• IAPP CIPM, CIPP, or IG professional certifications (e.g. IGP)
• Familiarity with or an interest in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry
• Exposure to review platforms or eDiscovery tooling (Relativity, Everlaw, Logikcull)

About Chainalysis

Blockchain technology is powering a growing wave of innovation. Businesses and governments around the world are using blockchains to make banking more efficient, connect with their customers, and investigate criminal cases. As adoption of blockchain technology grows, more and more organizations seek access to all this ecosystem has to offer. That’s where Chainalysis comes in. We provide complete knowledge of what’s happening on blockchains through our data, services, and solutions. With Chainalysis, organizations can navigate blockchains safely and with confidence.

Diversity & Inclusion

You belong here. At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate our diversity culture. We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. We can’t wait to meet you.

Key skills/competency

• Privacy Operations
• Information Governance
• eDiscovery
• Data Lifecycle Management
• Compliance
• Risk Management
• Legal Holds
• Data Subject Rights
• Records Management
• Chainalysis