Privacy Manager

TEK NINJAS; Texas; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tek Ninjas is seeking a Privacy Manager to lead risk management and ensure compliance with federal and state privacy laws across business lines. You will implement privacy controls, manage risk processes, and drive remediation actions with autonomy and proactive problem-solving.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with privacy laws (TCPA, GLBA, CAN-SPAM), privacy tooling like Airtable, OneTrust or DataGrail, and a collaborative leadership style capable of aligning multiple stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in privacy or risk management.
• Working understanding of 20+ states privacy laws and federal laws (TCPA, GLBA, CAN-SPAM).
• Ability to understand technical terms related to software development lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience with privacy tooling (Airtable, OneTrust, DataGrail, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Provide effective challenge and guidance on privacy risks, including Privacy Impact Assessments.
• Advise business lines on application of privacy requirements, controls, monitoring, remediation, and regulatory changes.

Skills

Privacy laws knowledge

Project management

Stakeholder management

Interpersonal communication

Self-starter

Tools

Airtable

Claude

OneTrust

DataGrail

Securiti

Wirewheel

Job description

The Privacy Manager performs a key risk management role to ensure business lines and corporate initiatives comply with applicable federal and state Privacy laws and regulations. The Privacy Manager will implement risk, process management, and control skills to drive actions in support of privacy risk objectives for the Privacy department and impacted business lines. The Privacy Manger is responsible for delivering quality results and providing sound privacy results to business lines. A successful Privacy Manager is a highly motivated, forward-thinking self-starter who can work autonomously, is quick to adapt, technologically adept, a problem solver, and an adaptive learner.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective challenge and guidance on privacy risks specifically Privacy Impact Assessments.
• Advise business lines on application of privacy requirements, development of controls and monitoring, remediation/corrective action of compliance breakdowns, and changes in law or regulation.

The ideal candidate will possess

• Triage questions privacy related from internal stakeholders across all lines of business as well as Privacy review (ie existing processes, new products or services or if something is being built internally that processes personal data). There is a template but this person will review the responses and advise accordingly.
• Clear results orientation and focus on achieving short goals.
• A proven track record of supporting and working across business lines and functions
• Solid teamwork skills; ability to build and leverage existing processes and tools.
• Highly developed interpersonal, communications skills (written and oral) and the ability to drive agreement through intellect, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
• Strong judgment, influencing skills, integrity, and discretion in handling highly sensitive issues.
• Strong project management, process management, and organizational skills.
• A collaborative, energetic, solution-oriented, and innovative leadership style.
• Ability to balance operating independently with appropriate escalation and interaction with management.
• Understanding of key regulatory and three lines of defense risk management framework.

MUST HAVE's

• 4+ years experience (even though level chosen says 3-5...must have a minimum of 4 yrs)
• Working understanding of 20+ states with privacy laws, and federal laws such as TCPA, GLBA and CAN-SPAM
• Ability to understand technical terms related to software development life cycles
• Ability to lean on A1 tools (ie Claude)
• Airtable is a MUST (for reporting)
• Practical hands on experience (rather than ie compliance VP who oversees) to roll up sleeves and do the actual work.

Strong Plus but not required

• CIPP certification
• DataGrail or similar (or OneTrust, Securiti, Wirewheel)

Soft Skills

• Ability to structure and project manage their own work, self-starter, and critical thinker.