Privacy Operations Lead
Deepgram · Remote · USA - Remote ·
COMPENSATION
$179k – $223k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior individual contributor
- Fully remote position
- Voice AI infrastructure
- GDPR and CCPA focus
- Technical privacy operations
You will own the operational backbone of Deepgram's privacy program, ensuring accurate data flow maps and records of processing across various deployment models. This role bridges Legal, Engineering, and Sales by translating regulations like GDPR and CCPA into actionable technical requirements and verifiable processes.
The position focuses on assessment, advisory, and designing tooling rather than writing policy. You will serve as the technical voice in enterprise customer privacy reviews and partner with Security to align privacy evidence with security audits.
What you'll do
- Manage end-to-end customer privacy risk assessments and DPIAs
- Maintain accurate data flow maps across hosted and self-hosted environments
- Translate global privacy laws into concrete engineering requirements
- Define privacy needs for product changes like retention and logging
- Operate privacy controls including DSAR workflows and consent handling
- Design auditing workflows to detect drift between claims and practice
- Oversee subprocessor and vendor privacy review processes
- Create playbooks and training for Engineering and Sales teams
- Partner with Legal on DPAs and data residency commitments
- Align privacy evidence with security audits like SOC 2 and ISO 27001
What you'll need
- Substantial experience in privacy operations or technical compliance
- Proven ownership of privacy systems like data maps and DSAR workflows
- Ability to read architecture diagrams and understand data flows
- Practical applied experience with GDPR and CCPA/CPRA regulations
- Capability to engage directly with Fortune 500 privacy teams
- Strong writing skills for creating reliable documentation
- Bias toward automating work to avoid becoming a bottleneck
- Comfort making defensible decisions in ambiguous legal areas
Nice to have
- CIPM, CIPT, CIPP/E or equivalent certification
- Ability to read code in Python, Go, Rust or TypeScript
- Familiarity with colocation infrastructure and Docker workloads
- Experience with ML/AI data pipelines and training governance
- Background in hybrid SaaS and self-hosted deployment models
- Exposure to formal audits such as HIPAA or PCI DSS
Stack
- AWS
- Docker
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- TypeScript
- SQL
How you'll work
- Fully remote work environment
- Senior individual contributor level
- Reports to Director of Information Security
- Requires AI-first mindset and tool usage
- Fast-paced environment with rapid change