Privacy Program Manager

Overview

Placement Type:

Temporary

Salary:

$47-52 Hourly

up to $52.00/hr

Start Date:

Aug 3, 2026

Aquent is partnering with a leading global technology company that stands at the forefront of innovation, dedicated to shaping the future of digital experiences and cloud services. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a team that is pivotal in safeguarding sensitive data and championing privacy standards across a vast operational landscape, directly contributing to maintaining trust with customers and partners through privacy excellence in every aspect of cloud operations and innovation initiatives.

Make a Tangible Impact as a Privacy Program Manager

Step into a dynamic and critical role where you will be at the heart of our client's efforts to ensure privacy by design, drive regulatory compliance, and continuously improve privacy processes. As a Privacy Program Manager, you will wield significant influence, conducting essential privacy reviews, supporting data protection impact assessments, and ensuring privacy standards are consistently applied across services, systems, and business processes. This is your chance to make a tangible impact, reducing privacy risk and enhancing operational privacy excellence by partnering with diverse teams across engineering, security, legal, and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct technical privacy reviews for services, systems, tools, and business processes, including privacy impact assessments and document reviews.
• Ensure privacy review requirements, regulatory action items, and internal privacy standard obligations are triaged, tracked, and resolved in a timely manner.
• Serve as a privacy advocate and advisor by providing privacy expertise on user consent, data collection, data use, data storage, processing, access controls, retention, and privacy documentation.
• Promote Privacy by Design principles by helping teams incorporate privacy controls early in the service lifecycle and align privacy requirements with business objectives.
• Partner with engineering, security, legal, HR privacy, procurement, supplier assurance, and business stakeholders to translate privacy requirements into actionable technical and operational plans.
• Revise, develop, and maintain privacy guidance materials, playbooks, templates, and process documentation to improve consistency across privacy operations.
• Inventory systems and processes to identify privacy implications, manual processes, operational gaps, and opportunities to strengthen privacy governance.
• Identify, recommend, and drive program, process, workflow, and tooling improvements that reduce manual effort, increase visibility, improve reporting, and support scalable compliance.
• Support use of privacy governance platforms, intake processes, reporting tools, and operational dashboards to monitor workload, risk, status, and compliance outcomes.
• Operate independently in an ambiguous environment while managing multiple concurrent privacy reviews, requests, and stakeholder priorities.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of experience in engineering, product management, technical program management, data analysis, product development, or related program delivery roles.
• 2+ years of experience working with compliance, regulatory programs, privacy operations, security, information protection, risk management, data governance, or technical program management.
• Experience conducting or supporting privacy reviews, compliance reviews, risk assessments, or control implementation activities.
• Ability to communicate privacy, compliance, and technical requirements clearly to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong program management, organization, documentation, and follow-through skills.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• A blend of privacy, compliance, and program management experience, comfortable working across technical and business teams.
• IAPP certification (CIPP and/or CIPM).
• Experience working with enterprise privacy programs, cloud services, or compliance tooling.
• A legal background.

About Aquent Talent:

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Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.