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Etsy

Staff Privacy Analyst

New York, NY

Company Description

Etsy is the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. We build, power, and evolve the tools and technologies that connect millions of entrepreneurs with millions of buyers around the world. As an Etsy Inc. employee whether a team member of Etsy, Reverb, Depop, or Elo7 you will tackle unique, meaningful, and large-scale problems alongside passionate coworkers, all the while making a rewarding impact and Keeping Commerce Human

Job Description

What's the role?

The Privacy Platform team is seeking a Staff Privacy Analyst to help craft our risk-informed technical roadmap and partner with product and engineering teams to identify and mitigate privacy risks before they make it to production.

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You'll bring your privacy expertise to help us prioritize all of the work we have ahead of us to enable privacy by design, measure and prioritize risks against a control framework, and advocate for privacy reviews in the software development lifecycle. You'll work with the leads on the team to evangelize Privacy Platform's roadmap and value to the company, and your engineering proficiencies allow you to understand the technical details and communicate them to non-technical team members.

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager, Privacy Platform and the base salary range will be 137,000.00 - 177,000.00 USD per year. In addition to salary, you will also be eligible for an equity package, an annual performance bonus, and our competitive benefits that support you and your family as part of your total rewards package at Etsy. This role requires your presence in Etsy's Brooklyn office in an in-person or flex capacity. Learn more about our Flex and Office-based work modes and workplace safety policies here.

What does the day-to-day look like?

  • Adopt and maintain a control framework for measuring our program maturity reporting to the board of directors and other privacy partners
  • Assist with building a gap-directional technical roadmap for the team
  • Provide deep analysis and recommendations for how engineering efforts across the company can affect user privacy or our efforts
  • Build strong ties with our legal and engineering counterparts
  • Own the technical privacy review process
  • Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy's discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law

Qualifications

Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are:

  • Strong privacy opinions, loosely held
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Instincts for privacy tradeoffs
  • Ability to convince, empower, and collaborate with team members
  • Experience with NIST-P or other privacy frameworks
  • Privacy certification like CIPP/US, CIPT, CIPM or other privacy certification is a plus
  • Product management or business analysis experience
  • Engineering background (ability to read code, write SQL, wrangle data to generate insights) preferred

Additional Information

What's Next

If you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please share your resume with us and feel free to include a cover letter if you'd like. As we hope you've seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else -- we want you to be like you! So tell us what you're all about.

Our Promise

At Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace furthers relevance, resilience, and longevity. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skills.

For U.S. roles only:

Many Etsy roles are open to remote candidates, and you'll be able to identify which ones within the location header of each job description. We're open to remote hires from all U.S. states except Hawaii and Alaska.

Client-provided location(s): Brooklyn, NY, USA
Job ID: Etsy-ETSYGLOBALJR2850ENGLOBALEXTERNAL
Employment Type: Other