Privacy Assurance Lead: Controls & Risk Testing

Google; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and long

401(k) with company match

Paid time off 20 days per year

Sick time 40 hours/year

Maternity and Baby Bonding leave

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a dedicated Privacy Assurance Tester to lead ongoing oversight, controls assurance, and programmatic compliance across privacy commitments. You will act as a second-line assurance lead, ensuring strong privacy governance and control effectiveness across Google’s products and services.

You will drive end-to-end privacy assurance workstreams, oversee risk reviews, and collaborate with Product Areas, Legal, and Internal Audit to ensure robust assurance coverage and alignment with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in compliance, risk management, investigation, auditing, legal, or consulting.
• Experience managing cross-functional compliance or assurance programs within a technology, cloud, or global platform environment.

Responsibilities

• Direct cross-functional privacy assurance programs for regulatory commitments, establishing project milestones and delivering executive posture reports.
• Oversee baseline testing and documentation of technical privacy controls across databases, architectures, and product lifecycles to verify operational effectiveness.
• Conduct risk-based control reviews to identify deficiencies, drive stakeholder remediation via governance systems, and separately validate issue resolution.
• Lead internal and external audit preparedness with Regulatory Affairs, coordinating technical walkthroughs, evidence collection, and observation remediation.
• Partner with Product, Legal, and Security teams on control design adequacy while standardizing testing playbooks and advancing automated, continuous monitoring.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Privacy risk management

Auditing and controls

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

CIPP/CIPM/CIPT/CISA/CISSP or JD

Job description

Google is seeking a dedicated Privacy Assurance Tester to lead ongoing oversight, controls assurance, and programmatic compliance across privacy commitments. You will act as a second-line assurance lead, ensuring strong privacy governance and control effectiveness across Google’s products and services.

You will drive end-to-end privacy assurance workstreams, oversee risk reviews, and collaborate with Product Areas, Legal, and Internal Audit to ensure robust assurance coverage and alignment with