Senior Product Manager, Privacy & Trust

Meredith Corporation; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401K with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

People Inc. seeks a Senior Product Manager to own the DSR platform and privacy strategy. You will balance business growth with GDPR/CCPA compliance, guiding architecture and data flows across silos while delivering a seamless user experience.

You will collaborate with Legal, Editorial, and Revenue teams to design scalable, automated privacy workflows and ensure measurable impact on trust and engagement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management owning backend platforms.
• Experience in data-heavy environments or compliance-related products.
• DSR platform experience and data synchronization across stacks.
• Ability to lead technical discussions with engineers and guide architecture.
• Strong ability to translate legal/technical constraints for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the DSR platform roadmap and automation.
• Balance privacy and product while maintaining GDPR/CCPA compliance.
• Partner with engineering to modernize data architecture.
• Design user-friendly privacy flows for readers.
• Bridge Legal, AdTech, and Engineering on strategy and risk.

Skills

DSR Platform

APIs

Data Flow

Technical Leadership

Product Management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Job description

## Senior Product Manager, Privacy & TrustApplylocations: New York, NY - 225 Liberty Street: Remote UStime type: Full timeposted on: Posted 3 Days Agojob requisition id: JR15620**Job Title**Senior Product Manager, Privacy & Trust**Job Description******About The Position** |*Major goals and objectives and location requirements***We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to take charge of our data privacy and platform strategy. You will be the point person for balancing our business needs, like audience growth and personalization, with the reality of global privacy regulations. This role is a mix of high-level roadmap planning and deep-in-the-weeds technical problem solving, specifically regarding our Data Subject Request (DSR) platform.**Hybrid 3x a week- (New York, NY)**In-office Expectations: This position is hybrid in-office, with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.****About The Team:****At People Inc., we treat reader trust as our most valuable asset. This role is not just building a platform; this role is building the infrastructure that allows our readers to trust us with their data. This team solves hard, "real-world" technical problems that have a tangible impact.****About The Positions Contributions:********Weight** % |** ****Accountabilities, Actions and Expected Measurable Results****20% | Own the DSR Platform* Our current DSR process needs work. You will lead the roadmap to evolve this from a compliance checkbox into a scalable, automated system that handles access, deletion, and portability requests across all our data silos.20% | Balance Privacy & Product* You’ll define how we manage data and identity. The goal is to stay fully compliant (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA) without sacrificing the user experience or our ability to deliver relevant content.20% | Build the Foundation* Partner with engineering to modernize our data architecture. You need to understand our data lineage, governance, and security well enough to guide architectural decisions across different business units.20% | Make Privacy User-Friendly* Stop treating privacy as a legal chore. You will design transparent, user-centric flows that actually help our readers understand their data, which in turn builds long-term brand trust.20% | Cross-Functional Strategy* You’ll be the bridge between Legal, AdTech, and Engineering. You need to be able to explain the technical risk to legal, and the regulatory requirements to our engineering leads.****The Role’s Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements******Education:** Bachelor’s degree is preferred and/or equivalent experience.**Experience:*** 5+ years in product management owning backend platforms. A candidate who has worked in data-heavy environments or managed compliance-related products or identity systems is required.**Specific Knowledge, Skills, Certifications and Abilities:*** DSR Platform Expertise: Experience developing or expanding DSR systems. You understand the friction involved in verifying identities and synchronizing data across disconnected stacks and have a vision for automation.* Technical Authority: Ability to lead technical discussions with engineers. You possess a strong grasp of APIs, data flow, and warehouse environments like BigQuery or Snowflake to guide fundamental architectural choices.* Articulate Communication: Skill in distilling complex legal mandates or technical constraints into clear, actionable insights for leadership across Legal, Editorial, and Revenue teams.It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing [e-mail] Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here: https://www.e-verify.gov/employees**Pay Range**Salary: New York: $130,000 - $144,000 Remote US: $125,000 - $140,000The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of People Inc's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, People Inc. provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with People Inc. and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.