Senior Product Manager, Privacy & Trust

Shoptalk; United States; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

People Inc. is hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead the DSR platform and privacy strategy. You will balance business goals like audience growth with global privacy requirements and guide a mix of roadmap planning and technical problem solving.

The role blends data governance, architecture oversight, and user-friendly privacy workflows, with a cross-functional scope across Legal, AdTech, and Engineering. Hybrid in NYC with some remote work is available.

Qualifications

• DSR Platform Expertise: Experience developing or expanding DSR systems and automating data workflows.
• Technical Authority: Ability to lead technical discussions with engineers on data flow and warehouse environments.
• Articulate Communication: Ability to distill complex legal/technical constraints for leadership and teams.
• 5+ years in product management owning backend platforms; experience with data-heavy or compliance-related products.

Responsibilities

• Own the DSR Platform roadmap and scale access, deletion, and portability across data silos.
• Balance privacy and product: maintain GDPR/CCPA/CPRA compliance without harming user experience.
• Build the foundation: partner with engineering to modernize data architecture and governance.
• Make privacy user-friendly with transparent, user-centric flows for readers.
• Serve as bridge between Legal, AdTech, and Engineering to explain risks and regulatory needs.

Skills

DSR Platform Expertise

Technical Authority

Articulate Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Job description

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 Position's 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].

The 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 - $140,000

The 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.