Privacy, Data Protection and Compliance Intern

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services.

About the role

As a Privacy, Data Protection and Compliance team member in Crowe’s Consulting Practice, your role will focus on helping clients operationalize privacy programs by conducting privacy assessments and implementing privacy technology platforms and solutions. These solutions address consumer requests, personal data inventories, consent collection and notification, and third-party privacy reviews.

You will assist with the assessment, development, implementation, support, and delivery of risk-based privacy solutions. You will play a key role in building new privacy solutions in a dynamic regulatory environment, helping clients map data flows and business processes, and executing program initiatives to ensure privacy controls and processes are documented, adopted, and implemented. This promotes compliance with privacy laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.

You will assist with developing processes for responding to consumer privacy requests and implementing privacy software. You will also help draft policies, processes, and documentation (e.g., checklists, guidelines, FAQs) to comply with relevant privacy regulations and frameworks. You may implement common privacy control frameworks or regulatory frameworks (e.g., ISO 27701, CCPA, GDPR, LGPD) to enhance client data protection programs.

Additional responsibilities include documenting and reviewing privacy-related third-party relationships and data flows, establishing processes and tools for tracking compliance, and assisting with privacy and data protection internal audit programs.

Responsibilities

• Build both technical and transferable skills, think critically, and use technology to solve real business problems.
• Continuously learn, collaborate across teams, and explore how tools, including emerging AI capabilities, can improve efficiency, insights, and client outcomes.
• Take ownership of client relationships, contribute to account strategy, and support the delivery of high-impact work.
• Develop a sense of account leadership, including understanding client needs, ensuring delivery excellence, and building trusted partnerships.
• Conduct privacy assessments and implement privacy technology platforms and solutions for consumer requests, personal data inventories, consent collection, and third-party privacy reviews.
• Assist with the assessment, development, implementation, support, and delivery of risk-based privacy solutions.
• Map data flows and business processes to execute program initiatives ensuring privacy controls and processes are documented and implemented.
• Develop processes for responding to consumer privacy requests and implement privacy software.
• Draft policies, processes, and documentation (e.g., checklists, guidelines, FAQs) to comply with privacy regulations and frameworks.
• Implement privacy control frameworks or regulatory frameworks (e.g., ISO 27701, CCPA, GDPR, LGPD).
• Document and review privacy-related third-party relationships and data flows.
• Establish and handle processes and tools for documenting and tracking compliance.
• Assist with privacy and data protection internal audit programs.
• Employ robust business writing skills to develop and present deliverables.
• Exhibit strong communication skills when consulting with senior management, C-Suite client personnel, and government regulators.
• Exhibit strong critical thinking skills to solve complex problems and generate solutions.

Requirements

• Desire to work in a fast-paced learning environment.
• Adapt to continuously changing risk environments and effectively manage time.
• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity to enable a deeply specialized skill set.
• Cultivate and enable strong relationships within your clients and community.
• Strong ability to learn new skills quickly and a desire for a career with continuous learning.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to think systematically and analytically.
• Self-motivated to deliver quality results, take responsibility, and grow.
• Learn and work well both in teams and independently.
• Capable of working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment.
• Entrepreneurial spirit.
• Willingness to travel up to 60%.
• Uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship.
• Act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Qualifications

Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in one of the following preferred majors (or comparable major):

• Business Administration
• Privacy and risk management
• Computer Science
• Data Management/Data Analytics
• Information Security
• Systems Engineering
• Information Technology or Information Systems

Pay

The wage range for this role takes into account factors such as skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for geographic differentials. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $27.00 - $42.00 per hour.

Benefits

Crowe offers a comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Exceptional people experience starting from day one.
• Inclusive culture that values diversity.
• Consistent meetings with a Career Coach to guide career goals and aspirations.