About the job

Core Privacy team is responsible for offering product privacy engagement with product, engineering, and other teams through proposals, requirements, and designs. The team informs and establishes a product privacy strategy for Product Areas (PAs). The team works on developing and informing product privacy policies and guidance across regulatory and ecosystem changes. The team conducts launch reviews as a final stage in the development and launch process. The team works with Google-wide or cross-PA privacy teams to ensure Core teams get the privacy guidance for cross-PA initiatives and to ensure Core Privacy is represented in Google-wide privacy decision making.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Focus on conducting privacy reviews and consultations for infrastructure teams. Participate in organization-wide projects, with support from executive privacy engineers to develop privacy engineering skills.

• Conduct privacy reviews, and provide consultation requests from product engineers seeking privacy guidance on collection, storage, processing, and deletion of personal information, as well as deployment of privacy-protecting methods and patterns.

• Work with cross-functional teams to design and implement privacy-protective solutions.

• Identify and flag privacy risks in systems to executive privacy engineers.

• Contribute to privacy strategy, guidance, policy, or project work. Help to improve systems and processes, alongside program management professionals.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 2 years of experience in designing solutions by analyzing and assessing proposed engineering designs (e.g., product features, infrastructure systems), and with stakeholder collaboration.

• 2 years of experience in applying privacy technologies (e.g., differential privacy, automated access management solutions, etc.), and customizing existing solutions and frameworks.

• Experience in privacy, business communication, privacy data management, information privacy, and privacy design documents.

Preferred qualifications

• Certification in Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT), or Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM).

• 4 years of experience in privacy, security or compliance environments, with threat modeling, architecture or solution design.

• Knowledge of applying policy requirements, privacy enhancing technologies (e.g., zero knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryptions) and privacy controls and systems (e.g., pseudonymization, access control, transparency, control) to manage privacy outcomes.

• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional technical and business teams.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to create process documentation and guidelines for users.