Booking Holdings Romania - Privacy Intern

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.

Role description

We are seeking a detail-oriented Privacy Intern to support our Privacy team in maintaining and updating the organization's data processing inventories, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations like GDPR. This role will involve accurately documenting data flows, identifying potential privacy risks, and assisting in managing Records of Processing Activities (RoPAs) and associated data flow maps. Additionally, the intern will handle Data Subject Rights requests, including access, correction, deletion, and other rights outlined under GDPR.

This position is designed to help the organization manage data responsibly, mitigate legal risks, and ensure that personal data is processed transparently and securely across departments. The intern will play a crucial role in maintaining privacy standards, protecting personal data (including sensitive information), and enhancing operational efficiency by reducing the workload on current staff. This is a valuable opportunity to gain hands-on experience in data protection while contributing to the organization's compliance efforts. No prior experience is required—just a strong interest in privacy and a willingness to learn.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

• Assisting the team with recording meeting minutes and documentation.
• Supporting assignments related to the maintenance of Records of Processing Activities (RoPAs) and associated data flow maps.
• Assisting with Data Subject Rights Requests and managing standardized privacy cases.
• Utilizing a combination of manual and automated tools to analyze data and communicate privacy trends.
• Collaborating effectively with team members and leadership to share ideas and knowledge.
• Creating privacy awareness while maintaining a strong focus on providing a positive customer experience.  

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Fluency in English (mandatory).
• Availability for a 6-hour/day internship for 6 months (mandatory).
• Strong interest in privacy, data protection and regulatory compliance.
• Willingness to learn about global privacy laws, such as GDPR, CCPA.
• Ability to investigate, retrieve and analyze data.
• Good decision making ability and detail-oriented approach.
• Ability to prioritize and manage workload efficiently.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with integrity.
• Willingness to work in a team-oriented environment and collaborate across departments.
• Basic familiarity with office productivity tools (Microsoft Office / Google Suite).

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.

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.