Privacy Analyst

Fivetran • Oakland, CA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About the Role
Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.
We’re looking for a Privacy Analyst to join our global SaaS company and growing legal team. This non-attorney role will report directly to the Data Protection Officer and will serve in a leading privacy role in the organization. They will be responsible for the company’s global data protection compliance program and there is potential for huge impact across our rapidly-growing global company. The successful candidate will possess strong technical acumen given the strategic nature of the role, have a right-sized risk calculus, and fluid communication skills.
A risk-adjusted privacy analyst with a technical, process, and operations-orientation to help educate and build the business as Fivetran scales. As a member of the Legal team and working with the Legal team to build and scale a world-class legal organization, you will have primary responsibility for building, maintaining and improving the global privacy and data protection compliance programs at Fivetran.
This will include staying informed of peer company best practices and relevant global data protection developments, coordinating with our privacy attorneys to gauge applicability to the company's activities and objectives and advising the business on how to promote the company's goals while complying with applicable regulations. Your expertise will drive creative, customer-focused, practical and proactive guidance.
Fivetran is a start-up company where everyone rolls up their sleeves and digs in to work, and this role is no different. You will be an analyst on privacy and data protection compliance initiatives.
This is a full-time, hybrid position based out of our Oakland or Denver offices. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.

Requirements

• Understanding of technical issues (cookie management, encryption)
• Experience writing business, functional, and technical requirements with specifications, including strong documentation skills
• Strong data analysis and project management skills
• You love privacy-related work and view protecting privacy rights not as a compliance obligation, but as the right thing to do
• You love working with product strategy and engineering
• Experience with privacy regulations and industry standards, including GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, ISO27701, PCI-DSS, NIST, EU Data Act, EU NIS2, and UK NIS.

Nice To Haves

• Engineering background preferred, but not required
• CIPP, CIPM, or CIPT preferred, but not required

Responsibilities

• Manage projects related to ongoing compliance with privacy and data protection laws across business areas
• Help develop, maintain, and scale processes, policies, procedures, technical controls, and playbooks that support global privacy and data protection program
• Utilize project management and communication skills to help define scope, requirements, analyze data, and develop technical recommendations for program and operational execution
• Drive greater consistency of process, practices, and execution across company-wide privacy and data protection work-streams
• Work closely with privacy team members to further privacy governance, monitoring, reporting, and auditing on the ongoing initiatives of the privacy and data protection program
• Develop the privacy and data protection program for a global technology company and ability to lead the continued development, maintenance and improvement of Fivetran’s global privacy program including effective policies, procedures, technical safeguards, and documentation
• Contribute to a fast-paced environment and execute change management
• Work cross-functionally throughout the organization including with product, security, engineering teams
• Support the development of the strategy, delivery, and evaluation of the privacy program and data protection compliance
• Embody process and relationship-building skills to accomplish the mission

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance
• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
• RSU stock grants
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees