Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elevate Legal Talent provides a platform for professionals to work with innovative companies and law firms on challenging legal and compliance roles. The Privacy Program Manager will support a growing Privacy Legal and Compliance function by coordinating governance, operations, stakeholder collaboration, and execution across privacy and data protection initiatives. The role will manage privacy workflows, risk assessments, vendor reviews, reporting, and process improvements.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate multiple privacy initiatives, ensuring milestones are met and work is delivered on schedule
- Build and maintain program governance: project plans, timelines, status reporting, and risk tracking
- Implement and manage intake, triage, prioritization, and workflow processes for privacy-related requests
- Track ownership, deliverables, dependencies, and escalation paths across the privacy team
- Partner with Privacy Legal, Compliance, Security, Product, Engineering, Procurement, and other business teams to align on privacy initiatives
- Serve as a central coordinator for privacy-related projects and escalations
- Facilitate stakeholder communications and operating cadence (e.g., updates, steering discussions, working sessions)
- Support privacy-by-design reviews and integration into product/business processes
- Coordinate privacy risk assessments, remediation efforts, and risk-response activities
- Help drive privacy tooling and governance technology initiatives
- Manage and monitor data subject rights request workflows
- Coordinate vendor privacy reviews and Data Processing Agreement (DPA) processes
- Support regulatory inquiries, compliance documentation, and audit-readiness activities as needed
- Introduce operational structure where processes are informal or inconsistent
- Develop frameworks for prioritization, capacity/resource planning, and sequencing of work
- Create dashboards/metrics to provide visibility into workload, throughput, and program effectiveness
- Reduce administrative burden on senior privacy/legal stakeholders through scalable operations
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent professional experience)
- • 5+ years in one or more of: Privacy, Data Protection, Cybersecurity, Compliance, Legal Operations, or Program Management
- • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and deliver results in a fast-moving environment
- • Experience supporting privacy programs in highly regulated environments
- • Strong stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional coordination skills
- • Highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities; able to operate independently
- • Experience with privacy laws/frameworks such as GDPR , CCPA/CPRA , HIPAA , and/or other global privacy requirements
- • Privacy certifications (e.g., CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT )
- • Experience implementing privacy/compliance governance tools or workflow solutions
- • Background in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, health tech, medical devices, or similar)
Benefits
- A package of benefits tailored to your needs
- Elevate's curated training suite to enhance and develop your skills
- Hands-on support
- Networking opportunities
- Accessing the most up-to-date resources
- The opportunity to work with our best top law firms and law department customers
- A diverse, inclusive work culture
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