Privacy Engineer

GM Financial; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 58,000 - 165,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Tuition assistance

GM employee auto discount

Nine company holidays

Job summary

GM Financial is seeking a privacy-focused engineer to collaborate with operations, marketing, legal, cybersecurity, and data governance teams to implement privacy best practices across projects. The role includes serving as a privacy engineering SME and communicating solutions to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities include developing privacy controls, influencing marketing technology strategies, and managing multiple privacy initiatives with urgency.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years handling privacy and technology matters as described.
• Familiarity with global privacy laws and regulations (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, Law 25, LGPD, GDPR, GLBA).
• Ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory requirements into engineering and operational execution.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders across operations, marketing, legal, cybersecurity, data governance and privacy teams to implement privacy best practices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on privacy engineering and communicate privacy solutions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop privacy controls and features, including policies and standards, as required by privacy laws and regulations.
• Influence strategy related to marketing and ad tech solutions, including 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 and engineer scalable solutions.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Privacy laws

Data governance

Cookie management

Collaboration

Privacy certifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master's degree

Associate degree

High school diploma

Tools

OneTrust

Informatica

BigID

Job description

GM Financial is the wholly owned captive finance subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, U.S. We are a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, South America, and the Asia Pacific region. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail financing and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses.

At GM Financial, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Our Purpose:We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters.

This position will be posted until filled.

Responsibilities

About the role:

In This Role You Will

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across operations, marketing, legal, cybersecurity, data governance 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 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.

Qualifications

What makes you an ideal candidate?

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across operations, marketing, legal, cybersecurity, data governance 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 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.Familiarity with global privacy laws and regulations (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, Law 25, LGPD, GDPR, GLBA) and how technical implementations map to them
• Familiarity with data governance principles.
• A strong technical background is needed.
• Experience with OneTrust, Informatica, or BigID 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.Ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory requirements into engineering and operational execution.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Ownership mentality, adept at managing competing priorities, anticipating issues, and proactively driving resolution.
• CIPP/US, CIPM, or CIPT privacy certification preferred.
• Fast-paced office environment.
• Strong focus on providing quality service to internal and external customers.
• Work a flexible schedule including extended business hours, weekends and holidays.
• Subject to daily service level requirements.
• Must be able to deal with stressful office conditions while troubleshooting problems.
• Working effectively within an AI enabled environment.

Work Experience & Education

• 2-4 years handling a combination of privacy and technology matters (e.g., privacy engineering, marketing ad tech compliance) required.
• High School Diploma.
• Associate Degree.
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work experience required.
• Master’s Degree.

What We Offer:

• 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.

Our Culture:Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Compensation:Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.

Note:We are unable to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship for this position

This position is not open to agency submissions

The base range for this role is: $58,000 to $165,500

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.

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