Privacy Engineer III, Global Business Strategy and Operations

Google LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a privacy-focused professional to support the Global Business Strategy and Operations group. You will conduct privacy reviews, guide product teams on data practices, and address privacy concerns across initiatives, with escalation and remediation as needed.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering, policy, and security teams to safeguard user privacy in a fast-paced ads business environment. An in-person interview process is common in multiple US locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years designing privacy-focused solutions and influencing stakeholders.
• 2 years applying privacy technologies and tailoring frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Conduct privacy reviews and provide consultation for launches, designing privacy-protective solutions.
• Guide engineering and product teams to ensure data collection and usage practices protect user privacy.
• Conduct technical and policy reviews to identify privacy concerns.
• Respond to privacy incidents, including root cause analysis and remediation.
• Partner with cross-functional teams on privacy, security, data protection and data storage.

Skills

Privacy design

Privacy reviews

Stakeholder influence

Risk analysis

Data protection

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

The application window will be open until at least November 4, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience designing solutions that maintain or enhance the privacy posture of the organization by analyzing and assessing proposed engineering designs (e.g., product features, infrastructure systems) and influencing stakeholders.
• 2 years of experience applying privacy technologies (e.g., differential privacy, automated access management solutions, etc.), and customizing existing solutions and frameworks to meet organizational needs.
• Experience in privacy, business communication, privacy data handling, information privacy, and privacy design documents.
• Experience with risk analysis, risk assessments, risk management and data analytics.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience balancing risks in ambiguous and complex situations with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience managing multiple high priority requests, while determining resource allocation (e.g., time, prioritization) to solve the problems in a fast-paced, changing organization.
• Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies (e.g., differential privacy, federated learning, and secure multi-party computation).
• Experience with AI/ML privacy, including model privacy, data minimization in training sets, or synthetic data generation.
• Knowledge of common regulatory frameworks (e.g., General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)).
• Ability to resolve high-stakes policy/product conflicts by communicating technical risks to both technical and non-technical executive stakeholders.

About the job

The Global Business Strategy and Operations (GBS&O) team is responsible for providing insightful review, perspective and direction on the strategy and operating performance of Google’s Global Business Organization (GBO). GBO comprises all the sales, services, product commercialization and business development/partnerships teams that power Google’s multi-billion dollar ads business.

GBS&O includes critical strategic and operational teams that accelerate Google’s performance including a) Chief of Staff and Strategic Narratives team that supports GBO leadership, b) Global Business Strategy and Planning, c) Data Insights and Analytics, and d) Ads Policy, Risk and Compliance.

GBS&O is part of the Global Go-to-Market (GTM) organization that ensures Google's large and complex advertising business is pursuing the best strategy and executing flawlessly. Team members are experts in business strategy and operations - investigative, principled and strategic, yet highly pragmatic and results-oriented.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Conduct privacy reviews and provide consultation requests from GBO teams seeking privacy guidance related to their launches. Design and implement privacy-protective solutions.
• Guide engineering and product teams during product development to ensure their data collection and usage practices are transparent and protect user privacy.
• Conduct technical and policy reviews to identify and elevate potential privacy concerns.
• Respond to Privacy incidents, including root cause analysis and managing remediation.
• Partner with cross-functional teams on topics related to privacy, security, data protection and data storage.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .