Privacy Engineering Director

Your Team and Role

Working on the Privacy Functional Team, you’ll be a privacy engineering leader, stepping in on the most complex, ambiguous, and high-stakes privacy challenges across products. You will use deep expertise in privacy engineering, audit frameworks, and cross-functional collaboration to lead critical initiatives shaping private browsing, private search, and agentic computing.

Recent projects include:

• Building a privacy engineering framework for agentic browsing products, addressing novel challenges around user data in AI-assisted workflows.
• Designing technical solutions to enable private search index capabilities while preserving strict privacy guarantees at scale.

As Engineering Director, Privacy, you will:

• Own high-complexity privacy projects from definition to delivery.
• Evolve privacy triage and review processes.
• Build automation to reduce engineering toil.
• Grow and mentor the next generation of privacy engineers.
• Contribute significantly to company-wide privacy strategy.

About You

• 10+ years experience leading privacy reviews, audits, or technical privacy programs at a consumer-facing product company with a large (1M+) user base.
• 4+ years privacy engineering leadership experience building infrastructure tools, data minimization systems, or equivalent privacy-preserving solutions.
• Director-, Head-, or VP-level experience with direct management and hiring responsibilities and meaningful technical scope.
• Proven ability to DRI high-complexity, cross-functional projects with minimal direction.
• Strong communication skills with a track record of translating privacy principles into practical engineering decisions.
• Experience improving organizational processes, implementing automation, and building scalable review systems.
• Passion for privacy and raising the standard of trust online.

Compensation

• $243,800 USD annually plus stock options.
• Compensation is identical within professional levels regardless of geographic location or team.
• Eligibility for company-sponsored health benefits is limited to team members based in the United States.
• Benefits include paid parental leave, office setup allowance, and co-working allowances.

Additional Requirements

• Attend meetings on camera via video conferencing.
• Travel at least twice per year for company and team meetups.
• Average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
• Successful completion of a background check.