Privacy Engineer

Summary

GM Financial is a financial services company whose Privacy team develops and implements privacy protocols to support compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The Privacy Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert, helping mature the privacy program through privacy controls, policies, ad tech strategy, consent management, and scalable technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across operations, marketing, legal, cybersecurity, data governance, digital, and privacy teams to implement privacy best practices in projects and decisions, and ensure solutions include necessary privacy components
• Serve as a subject matter expert on privacy engineering and communicate privacy solutions to non-technical stakeholders
• Develop privacy controls and features, including policies, procedures, and standard, as required by privacy laws and regulations
• Influence overall strategy related to marketing and ad tech solutions, including use of privacy-enhancing technologies, and cookie management and compliance
• Manage multiple privacy projects simultaneously with urgency
• Conduct operational deep dives on privacy-related processes and systems autonomously and engineer scalable solutions

Skills

• Familiarity with global privacy laws and regulations (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, Law 25, LGPD, app accountability laws) and how technical implementations map to them
• Familiarity with data governance principles
• Strong technical background , including the ability to read code and write scripts (Python) to support monitoring the implementation of privacy controls and to automate routine audits
• Experience with various data engineering techniques to anonymize and pseudonymize data such as hashing, tokenization, suppression, generalization
• Demonstrated experience with privacy-related technology solutions in a security or technically relevant role, including marketing and ad tech
• Experience developing or advising on the implementation of consent management workflows
• Strong understanding of mobile and web tracking technologies
• Ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory privacy requirements into clear technical and operational solutions
• Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Ownership mentality, adept at managing competing priorities, anticipating issues, and proactively driving resolution
• Working effectively within an AI enabled environment
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Information Systems or other related field and/or equivalent work experience required
• 2+ years handling a combination of privacy and technology matters (e.g., privacy engineering, digital marketing compliance) required
• Experience with OneTrust, Syrennis, or Adobe a plus
• CIPT privacy certification preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Familiarity with global privacy laws and regulations (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, Law 25, LGPD, app accountability laws) and how technical implementations map to them
• Familiarity with data governance principles
• Strong technical background , including the ability to read code and write scripts (Python) to support monitoring the implementation of privacy controls and to automate routine audits
• Experience with various data engineering techniques to anonymize and pseudonymize data such as hashing, tokenization, suppression, generalization
• Demonstrated experience with privacy-related technology solutions in a security or technically relevant role, including marketing and ad tech
• Experience developing or advising on the implementation of consent management workflows
• Strong understanding of mobile and web tracking technologies
• Ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory privacy requirements into clear technical and operational solutions
• Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Ownership mentality, adept at managing competing priorities, anticipating issues, and proactively driving resolution
• Working effectively within an AI enabled environment
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Information Systems or other related field and/or equivalent work experience required
• 2+ years handling a combination of privacy and technology matters (e.g., privacy engineering, digital marketing compliance) required

Nice to Haves

• Experience with OneTrust, Syrennis, or Adobe a plus
• CIPT privacy certification preferred

Benefits

• Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching
• Bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid)
• Tuition assistance
• Training
• GM employee auto discount
• Community service pay
• Nine company holidays
• 100% remote
• This role is eligible to participate in a performance-based incentive plan
• Full time employees are eligible to participate in health benefits on day one of employment