Privacy Manager
Horizontal Talent · San Francisco, CA · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteLegal$41–$78/hrContract
About the role
Bring your privacy expertise to a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you’ll help shape privacy impact assessments and ML privacy reviews for new products and services. This 100% remote contract opportunity offers the chance to partner with cross-functional teams, strengthen privacy-by-design practices, and support thoughtful, risk-aware decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Legal, Security, and other stakeholders to gather details about data use, processing activities, and technical safeguards.
- Review privacy and machine learning submissions, identify potential risks, and help drive practical mitigation strategies.
- Develop and refine privacy documentation, including end-to-end data flow diagrams and operational controls, for formal review and approval.
- Manage multiple privacy documents and workstreams at different stages of review while keeping progress on track.
- Support the completion and delivery of required privacy assessments and related documentation.
- Monitor for compliance and operational risks throughout the assessment lifecycle.
- Coordinate with privacy incident response partners to triage and escalate internal privacy-related tickets as needed.
- Help ensure documentation and processes align with global privacy expectations and enterprise standards.
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in privacy operations, compliance, or data governance within a technology or enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of global data protection laws and frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, LGPD, and PIPEDA.
- Proven experience conducting privacy impact assessments and supporting privacy-by-design efforts.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, including legal, product, and executive stakeholders.
- Experience translating complex business and technical processes into actionable privacy requirements.
- Strong organizational and program management skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities at once.
- Comfort influencing across teams and building alignment in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience.
- Experience with privacy management tools such as OneTrust, TrustArc, or BigID.
- Familiarity with collaboration platforms such as Jira, Confluence, or Asana.
- Professional certifications such as AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, or CIPT.
- Background supporting privacy programs in global, highly collaborative organizations.
- Experience contributing to privacy incident response or escalation workflows.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Retirement
Pay
The pay range for this role is $41 - $78 per hour based on qualifications and experience.