Senior Privacy Assurance Lead — Testing & Compliance

Google; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 164,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D

401(k) with company match

Paid time off: 20 days/year

Sick time: 40 hours/year (69 inSeattle

Maternity leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a Privacy Assurance Tester to lead ongoing oversight, controls assurance, and programmatic compliance across its privacy commitments. The role acts as a second-line assurance lead to ensure strong privacy governance and control effectiveness.

You will partner with Product, Legal, and Security teams to drive testing playbooks, risk reviews, and remediation verification, supporting audits and regulatory engagements globally.

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 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

Risk-based thinking

Auditing and assurance

Privacy by design awareness

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Privacy, security, or audit certifications (CIPP, CIPM, CIPT, CISA, CISSP)

Tools

Audit frameworks

Job description

Google is seeking a Privacy Assurance Tester to lead ongoing oversight, controls assurance, and programmatic compliance across its privacy commitments. The role acts as a second-line assurance lead to ensure strong privacy governance and control effectiveness.

You will partner with Product, Legal, and Security teams to drive testing playbooks, risk reviews, and remediation verification, supporting audits and regulatory engagements globally.