Privacy Program Lead

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Legal, Operations, Product, Security, and Engineering to develop, implement, and monitor comprehensive privacy policies, procedures, and controls aligned with relevant regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
• Work with Privacy Engineering to develop and implement technical privacy requirements, controls, processes, tools, and infrastructure such as consent mechanisms, preference managers, and user controls.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to coordinate and support privacy design reviews, integration of privacy by design principles, and privacy threat modeling, risk assessments, and mitigations.
• Monitor systems and data practices to identify privacy issues and ensure compliance.
• Identify ways to automate privacy processes like data subject requests, reporting, and audits where possible and work with Privacy Engineering to implement automated practices.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to balance privacy and product objectives.
• Clearly document privacy policies, procedures, architectures, and controls.
• Perform vendor due diligence and onboarding for privacy compliance.
• Report on privacy metrics, issues, and progress to leadership.
• Stay up-to-date on privacy best practices, tools, and emerging technologies.
• Continuously improve privacy practices through training, research, and sharing lessons learned.

You may be a good fit if you:

• You have a passion for developing AI that is both innovative and trustworthy.
• You understand the opportunities of AI to benefit society as well as the risks and limitations that must be addressed.
• You have experience operating in a fast-paced technology startup in which priorities shift rapidly and schedules “move to the left.”
• You thrive in this dynamic environment and pride yourself on your adaptability and ability to pivot with speed and grace.
• You understand how to achieve the right balance between the organization’s mission and goals, when to be flexible and when to draw a hard line.
• You have a knack for identifying and implementing efficient processes and policies.
• You thrive as a member of cross-functional teams building frontier technologies and want to develop a deep understanding of our technical teams and what we are building.
• You enjoy wearing many hats in a fast-growing startup environment and are comfortable operating outside your areas of expertise and in uncharted legal territory.
• You are a “doer” and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done.
• You’re a team player who doesn’t hesitate to jump in to solve difficult problems.

Strong candidates may also:

• Have 5+ years of experience in a privacy officer, privacy program management or related role.
• Have deep knowledge of privacy-enhancing technologies and privacy engineering concepts.
• Have hands-on experience building privacy features and controlsUnderstand relevant privacy laws and regulations.
• Have experience with data mapping, DPIAs, and managing privacy programs.
• Have excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Have the ability to translate complex privacy concepts for broad audiences.
• Have a passion for advancing privacy and ethical data practices.
• Familiarity with machine learning, generative models and products strongly preferred.
• Be a motivated self-starter able to multi-task and juggle multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Have a growth mindset, with a passion for AI's potential to positively impact the world and realistic assessment of its risks and limitations.
• Have a commitment to building trustworthy, privacy-forward, ethical AI systems.

Annual Salary (USD)

• The expected salary range for this position is $210,000 - $275,000