Enterprise Privacy Operations Leader (Program & Risk)

Hyundai Motor Company; Fountain Valley, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vehicle lease allowance

Holiday pay

Vacation and sick time off

Healthcare insurance

401(k) company match

Disability insurance

Mental health support

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Hyundai Motor Company in Fountain Valley, CA is seeking a Senior Privacy Operations Leader to supervise privacy operations engineers and auditors, partnering with DCM and HAEA to implement privacy controls across programs. The role focuses on developing the privacy program roadmap, coordinating stakeholders, ensuring regulatory compliance, and delivering on risk reduction and audit readiness.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of privacy and cross-functional program experience, with certifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in business, privacy, or related field.
• Eight+ years of privacy, compliance, or related experience.
• Experience leading a program or team with cross-functional delivery.
• Knowledge of enterprise privacy and consumer rights.
• Certification such as CIPP/M, CIPM, or PMP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and supervise the privacy operations team, maintain the program roadmap, set priorities, and drive continuous improvement.
• Escalate legal questions, policy interpretations, material risks, control gaps, audit findings, and business disputes.
• Administer privacy intake, gather business and technical facts, coordinate stakeholders, and route matters to accountable owners.
• Ensure projects reviewed through PriSMA implement approved privacy and legal controls before launch and throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate implementation responsibilities, deadlines, evidence collection, validation, and escalation of unresolved gaps or risks.
• Serve as privacy operations liaison to the Department of Customer Management (DCM) and coordinate shared workstreams and operational activities.
• Coordinate consumer rights request operations, monitor deadlines, manage handoffs, maintain reporting, and prepare matters for legal review.
• Partner with HAEA to support privacy control implementation, testing, remediation, evidence collection, and reporting.
• Serve as operational product owner for privacy-related SaaS solutions, integrations, governance, access, releases, testing, and improvements.
• Coordinate data discovery, inventory, mapping, data quality, reconciliation, and exception handling activities.
• Establish operating standards, service levels, KPIs, dashboards, and leadership reporting.
• Maintain control evidence standards and manage privacy issues through remediation, validation, risk acceptance, and closure.
• Coordinate audit, regulatory, and internal review response activities.
• Monitor projects requiring additional legal and compliance review.
• Maintain project plans, logs, reports, procedures, documentation, meetings, cross-functional coordination, and process improvements.

Skills

Privacy operations

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder coordination

Privacy frameworks

IT collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Hyundai Motor Company in Fountain Valley, CA is seeking a Senior Privacy Operations Leader to supervise privacy operations engineers and auditors, partnering with DCM and HAEA to implement privacy controls across programs. The role focuses on developing the privacy program roadmap, coordinating stakeholders, ensuring regulatory compliance, and delivering on risk reduction and audit readiness.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of privacy and cross-functional program experience, with certifications