Technical Compliance Specialist

The Planet Group; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

The Planet Group is seeking a Technical Compliance Specialist to build and support a privacy-by-design program across Product, Design, and Marketing. This role collaborates with multiple legal and engineering teams to tackle complex regulatory requirements and drive auditable privacy frameworks.

You will work on data governance, risk assessments, data mapping, and incident preparedness, coordinating across global teams and deploying compliant solutions that scale.

Qualifications

• Translate legal and regulatory requirements (DMA, GDPR, CCPA) into auditable programs.
• Define and drive privacy roadmaps, including data mapping, risk assessments, and incident preparedness.
• Monitor evolving privacy regulations and ensure technical controls meet compliance expectations.
• Lead internal audits and external assessments by organizing technical safeguards.

Responsibilities

• Serve as program lead for privacy-by-design across Product, Design, and Marketing.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and legal teams to drive compliance initiatives.
• Tackle novel problems and manage multiple projects with varying urgency and impact.
• Research, experiment, and collaborate on new privacy solutions and systems.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to all management levels.
• Drive complex regulatory asks requiring alignment across organizations.

Skills

Privacy regulatory knowledge

Data mapping

Risk assessments

Incident preparedness

Privacy frameworks (ISO 27701, NIST)

SQL

Spark

Cross-functional leadership

Technical fluency

AI/ML in marketing

Education

B.S./M.S. in Engineering, CS, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or Economics

Tools

AWS

GCP

Data governance tools

Job description

Technical Compliance Specialist
Location:Remote within 100 miles of Culver City or Seattle
Schedule: 40 hours
Duration: 18months
Pay:$85-$90DOE

The Planet Groupis looking foraTechnical Compliance Specialistto join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 18-months contract, working a remote onsite from either Culver City, CA orSeattle, WA.

Technical Compliance Specialist|Qualifications:

• Translate legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., DMA, GDPR, CCPA) into actionable business facing programs that are auditable and sustainable.
• Define and drive privacy roadmaps, including data mapping, risk assessments, and incident preparedness.
• Monitor evolving privacy regulations and ensure technical controls meet or exceed compliance expectations.
• Support internal audits and external assessments by organizing and communicating technical privacy safeguards.
• 5-7+ years of experience in program or project management, ideally in privacy, security, or data governance.
• Strong understanding of global privacy laws and their technical implications (e.g., data minimization, purpose limitation, encryption, access control).
• Familiarity with frameworks such as ISO 27701, NIST Privacy Framework, or privacy impact assessments (PIAs).
• Technical fluency--able to engage in conversations with engineers and understand systems architecture, even if not writing code.
• Works with LLMs to build and maintain web apps: writes clear prompts, reviews and tests generated code, connects apps to databases, deploys to internal hosting, and can verify output as accurate.
• Proficient with databases and data retrieval, including SQL and Spark
• Experience leading projects that involve AI/ML integration into automated marketing messaging and consumer facing applications.
• Experience working in cross-functional environments, ideally with product, engineering, legal, and compliance stakeholders.
• Experience working with privacy and legal teams to evaluate global data usage.
• Flexibility to deal with rapidly changing, time-constrained schedules.
• Experience in working across different global cultures a plus.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly and to all levels of management.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to partner effectively and influence stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• B.S. / M.S. in relevant or quantitative discipline: Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and/or Economics
• Privacy certifications such as CIPT, CIPP/US, or CISM.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and data governance tools.
• Experience in incident response or data breach management.

Technical Compliance Specialist| Description:

• As a Technical Compliance Specialist, you'll work on building and supporting a compliance program for our Product Design and Marketing teams.
• You will also have the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally across the company.
• You'll tackle novel problems and be responsible for multiple projects with varying levels of urgency and impact.
• You'll also research, experiment, and collaborate on new solutions.
• Successful candidates are passionate about privacy, can work through challenging problems independently, and enjoy context switching between projects.
• Successful candidates also have experience in successfully driving complex regulatory asks that require input and prioritization across multiple organizations.
• The ability to learn and grow quickly is very valued in this position.
• You will be exposed to new systems, pitching alternative ideas, and actively working on the future of privacy at our organization.
• The primary duty of the Technical Compliance Specialist is to serve as the program lead for privacy-by-design implementation across Product, Design, and Marketing while staying closely connected to and taking advice from multiple legal teams.