[Hiring] Privacy Engineer @GM Financial

Role Description

The Privacy Engineer will act as a subject matter expert in support of the GM Financial Privacy Office. The person in this role will support the Privacy Office's function of maintaining and maturing the organization's privacy program by contributing to program framework, and policies and standards, with a focus on ad tech. Prioritization skills, attention to detail, and the ability to consistently drive assignments to a strong end state are key to success in this role.

In this role you will:

• 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 standards, 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.

Qualifications

• 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 OneTrust, Syrennis, or Adobe a plus.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Licenses

• 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 and nine company holidays.

Work Life Balance

• 100% remote

Salary Information

The base range for this role is: $61,000 - $116,000. At GM Financial, we strive for transparency in all aspects of our business, including pay equity. This is the GM Financial pay range for this role and job level. The exact salary and compensation will vary based on factors like knowledge, skills, experience, and education.

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.