Senior Privacy Governance & Engineering Leader

Cox Automotive Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Automotive is seeking a Privacy Governance Senior Manager to lead its privacy engineering and governance initiatives. You will manage a team of privacy engineers responsible for CMP operations, cookie governance, opt-out mechanisms, and privacy library maintenance, while aligning privacy practices with regulatory requirements.

This role partners with Privacy Legal, Data Strategy, Engineering, and Product to embed privacy-by-design across the development lifecycle and to onboard brands and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with 8+ years of related experience.
• Experience operating within or leading a privacy compliance program.
• Working knowledge of U.S. state privacy regulations.
• Experience with consent management platforms, cookie governance, and web tracking compliance operations.
• Technical understanding of tag management systems, cookie and pixel operations, and consent signal architecture.
• Strong cross-functional communication with legal, engineering, product, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong program management skills with a track record of delivering in complex, matrixed organizations.
• 10%+ time travel requirement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of privacy engineers, ensuring operational excellence and continuity across cookie categorization, CMP operations, and privacy library maintenance.
• Serve as the technical SME for privacy engineering, providing guidance to direct reports.
• Oversee privacy technology stack and integration with enterprise systems.
• Evaluate vendor capabilities and contribute to privacy technology investment decisions.
• Partner with Data Strategy and Engineering to embed privacy-enhancing technologies into workflows.
• Execute and monitor privacy compliance activities across the enterprise.

Skills

Privacy governance

Privacy compliance

Consent management

Cookie governance

Web tracking

Tag management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

CMP platform

Job description

Cox Automotive is seeking a Privacy Governance Senior Manager to lead its privacy engineering and governance initiatives. You will manage a team of privacy engineers responsible for CMP operations, cookie governance, opt-out mechanisms, and privacy library maintenance, while aligning privacy practices with regulatory requirements.

This role partners with Privacy Legal, Data Strategy, Engineering, and Product to embed privacy-by-design across the development lifecycle and to onboard brands and