Nothing exists to make tech feel exciting again.
Founded in London in 2020, we’ve grown from idea to global challenger in just a few years. Backed by GV (Google Ventures), EQT Ventures, and C Ventures, and investors like Tony Fadell (iPod), Casey Neistat, and Kevin Lin (Twitch), we’re now sold in 40+ markets with millions of users worldwide.
- Define the long-term roadmap for a dedicated privacy engineering function, including strategy for team growth and investment.
- Map the entire data ecosystem across Essential and the OS, covering signals, SDKs, cloud services, and storage, into a single source of truth.
- Drive the engineering backlog to prioritise and close critical security gaps, with a focus on access hygiene, pipeline security, and encryption standards.
- Translate GDPR and global regulatory frameworks into concrete technical specifications, with consent, retention, and deletion logic baked into the codebase.
- Build risk-based guardrails that let product teams ship features fast without bypassing security reviews.
- Work closely with Design and Brand to create transparent privacy controls and prompts that help users understand exactly how their data is used.
- Own relationships with external security specialists and auditors to validate our architecture against global standards and lead incident response when needed.
- Deep technical fluency in modern cloud stacks (AWS/GCP), API architectures, and identity management, with the ability to separate real security risks from noise.
- Proven experience applying privacy engineering to live consumer products, with the judgement to know when to call legal and when to make the call yourself.
- A high sense of ownership, with the drive to take ambiguous requirements through to full technical resolution without constant direction.
- A background in privacy engineering, security architecture, or technical product management inside a data-rich consumer tech environment.
- A pragmatic approach to shipping: you prioritise safe, functional products and understand the trade-offs that come with moving fast.
- Clear, direct communication skills. You write documentation that engineers, lawyers, and leadership all understand, and you bring people along without losing the detail.
- A genuine desire to change how the industry handles data, building practices designed to earn trust rather than maximise collection.
- Location: London (Kings Cross & Farringdon offices)
- Working Pattern: Full-time, in-office, five days a week. We can work around personal needs where it makes sense, but being together is how we do our best work.
- Commute: We ask that you live within a 60-minute commute of your office.
Skills Required
- Deep technical fluency in modern cloud stacks
- Proven experience applying privacy engineering to live consumer products
- Background in privacy engineering or security architecture
- Clear, direct communication skills
What We Do
Today, we’re left with just a few large incumbents. Lacking instinct and courage, they use research and analysis as crutches to make cold, unexciting and derivative products. Consumers are bored, no longer inspired by technology and instead feel uneasy about big tech and its impact on people's lives and society. Nothing is igniting change in the world. We’re here to make tech fun again, unleash creativity, and inspire our community to shape the future with us. About us: Nothing is a UK-based privately held company with backing from GV (formerly Google Ventures), EQT Ventures, C Ventures and other private investors including Tony Fadell (Principal at Future Shape & inventor of the iPod), Casey Neistat (YouTube personality and Co-founder of Beme), Kevin Lin (Co-founder of Twitch) and Steve Huffman (Co-founder and CEO of Reddit
