Privacy Analyst

Sila is seeking a Privacy Analyst to manage the legal and operational risks around sensitive and critical proprietary information by assessing business operations on a continual basis, developing the correct policies, procedures, and training regimens, and overseeing all data agreements. You’ll be liaising with a global privacy legal team in a dynamic global business. You will play a crucial part in handling customer-facing matters and addressing all privacy interactions to support our client's business. You’ll work as an intermediary between product teams and a Fortune 500 Global Privacy office to understand the privacy implications for digital data being collected, how the policies relate to the products being developed, and the gaps that must be overcome to be compliant. In this role, you will also be involved in leading and maturing the privacy compliance programs by working collaboratively with internal teams, vendors, auditors, and other stakeholders. 

This person must be in the Seattle Metro area and may be expected to be in person in the office up to three days a week (initially). 

What you'll do?

• Facilitate and rigorously evaluate the life cycle of confidential and sensitive data, including the need, collection, use, transfer, retention, and destruction of proprietary information. 
• Review privacy controls and make compliance recommendations when needed. 
• Facilitate conversations between product teams and Global Privacy Office on various privacy topics.
• Facilitate and review responses for privacy-related inquiries from internal and external stakeholders. 
• Review the analysis of company-wide programs related to privacy such as assessment activities. 
• Gather, organize, and quantify privacy and questionnaire responses to maximize legitimacy for Global Privacy. 
• Support product teams with identifying new privacy policies and procedures to organize and ensure that the product teams are adhering to policies. 
• Perform cross-functional privacy reviews and inquiries across the business, with the assistance from other Privacy Specialists and Directors. 
• Identify personal data and sensitivity levels within a dataset.
• Support multiple teams in executing Privacy by Design.
• Ensure teams follow all privacy regulations in the collection, processing, and disposing of personal data.
• Identify privacy risk in various developmental stages of a product or process and communicate potential solutions. 

What you'll bring?

• An understanding of technical privacy issues and experience with the software development lifecycle. 
• Experience performing privacy reviews and answering privacy questions in a diverse environment.
• A strong background in data, including data for digital products and data transmitted digitally; ideally 5+ years of privacy experience. 
• Curiosity and passion about working with privacy analytics and associated related security implications. 
• Effective communication (verbal and written), interpersonal skills and organizational skills; unafraid to have uncomfortable conversations. 
• Self-motivation to find answers and recommend solutions with little direction. 
• Comfort communicating complex issues or technical privacy standards digestible by a wide range of audiences including engineering and product teams. 
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills and an ability to deliver high-quality results with minimal instruction and a short turnaround time. 
• Exceptional judgment, decisiveness, and ability to move quickly. 
• Ability to manage time and multiple priorities with a variety of stakeholders. 
• A desire to dive deep into detail, problem solve, and execute.
• Experience with Tableau reporting, One Trust (if applicable) and Excel. 
• One or more of the following IAPP Certifications (CIPP, CIPM, CIPT) are a plus.

Sila will not sponsor any employee in this position for a work visa, now or in the future.

(This includes those on H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant or immigrant status)

About Sila Solutions Group

Sila Solutions Group is a technology and management consulting firm that delivers solutions to the world’s leading corporations. Our solutions expertise lies in the areas of risk management, data analytics, software engineering and integration, strategy and transformation, and digital creative services. We are a values-driven company with a culture that fosters collaboration, creativity, and social responsibility. Sila employees are part of a community of vibrant, high-performing contributors who push each other to achieve the highest standard of excellence. Our team members have extensive opportunities to discover their passions and shape their own career paths, and we continually invest in employees’ growth through innovative training, mentorship, and professional development programs. Staff are quickly immersed in clients’ business challenges, work closely with emerging technologies to develop impactful solutions to these challenges, and are exposed to a variety of industries and market offerings.

We are looking for full-time employees to become an integral part of our growing team. Sila has embraced a national workforce of office-based and remote team members. We are headquartered in Seattle, WA, with hubs in Shelton, CT and Washington, D.C. 

Sila offers a range of great benefits including a comprehensive healthcare package, 401K with matching, paid time off, and paid company holidays, as well as other unique benefits that support our staff’s active work/life balance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.