Bring your privacy expertise to a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you’ll help shape privacy impact assessments and ML privacy reviews for new products and services. This 100% remote contract opportunity offers the chance to partner with cross-functional teams, strengthen privacy-by-design practices, and support thoughtful, risk-aware decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Legal, Security, and other stakeholders to gather details about data use, processing activities, and technical safeguards.
• Review privacy and machine learning submissions, identify potential risks, and help drive practical mitigation strategies.
• Develop and refine privacy documentation, including end-to-end data flow diagrams and operational controls, for formal review and approval.
• Manage multiple privacy documents and workstreams at different stages of review while keeping progress on track.
• Support the completion and delivery of required privacy assessments and related documentation.
• Monitor for compliance and operational risks throughout the assessment lifecycle.
• Coordinate with privacy incident response partners to triage and escalate internal privacy-related tickets as needed.
• Help ensure documentation and processes align with global privacy expectations and enterprise standards.

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in privacy operations, compliance, or data governance within a technology or enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of global data protection laws and frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, LGPD, and PIPEDA.
• Proven experience conducting privacy impact assessments and supporting privacy-by-design efforts.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, including legal, product, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience translating complex business and technical processes into actionable privacy requirements.
• Strong organizational and program management skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities at once.
• Comfort influencing across teams and building alignment in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with privacy management tools such as OneTrust, TrustArc, or BigID.
• Familiarity with collaboration platforms such as Jira, Confluence, or Asana.
• Professional certifications such as AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, or CIPT.
• Background supporting privacy programs in global, highly collaborative organizations.
• Experience contributing to privacy incident response or escalation workflows.

Horizontal is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where people of all backgrounds can thrive. We value diverse perspectives and are dedicated to building teams that reflect the communities we serve.

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