Technical Compliance Specialist

Technical Compliance Specialist

Location: Remote within 100 miles of Culver City or Seattle

Schedule: 40 hours

Duration: 18 months

Pay: $85-$90 DOE

The Planet Group is looking for a Technical Compliance Specialist to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 18-months contract, working a remote onsite from either Culver City, CA or Seattle, WA.

Technical Compliance Specialist Qualifications:

• Translate legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., DMA, GDPR, CCPA) into actionable business facing programs that are auditable and sustainable.
• Define and drive privacy roadmaps, including data mapping, risk assessments, and incident preparedness.
• Monitor evolving privacy regulations and ensure technical controls meet or exceed compliance expectations.
• Support internal audits and external assessments by organizing and communicating technical privacy safeguards.
• 5-7+ years of experience in program or project management, ideally in privacy, security, or data governance.
• Strong understanding of global privacy laws and their technical implications (e.g., data minimization, purpose limitation, encryption, access control).
• Familiarity with frameworks such as ISO 27701, NIST Privacy Framework, or privacy impact assessments (PIAs).
• Technical fluency--able to engage in conversations with engineers and understand systems architecture, even if not writing code.
• Works with LLMs to build and maintain web apps: writes clear prompts, reviews and tests generated code, connects apps to databases, deploys to internal hosting, and can verify output as accurate.
• Proficient with databases and data retrieval, including SQL and Spark
• Experience leading projects that involve AI/ML integration into automated marketing messaging and consumer facing applications.
• Experience working in cross-functional environments, ideally with product, engineering, legal, and compliance stakeholders.
• Experience working with privacy and legal teams to evaluate global data usage.
• Flexibility to deal with rapidly changing, time-constrained schedules.
• Experience in working across different global cultures a plus.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly and to all levels of management.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to partner effectively and influence stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• B.S. / M.S. in relevant or quantitative discipline: Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and/or Economics
• Privacy certifications such as CIPT, CIPP/US, or CISM.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and data governance tools.
• Experience in incident response or data breach management.

Technical Compliance Specialist Description:

• As a Technical Compliance Specialist, you'll work on building and supporting a compliance program for our Product Design and Marketing teams.
• You will also have the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally across the company.
• You'll tackle novel problems and be responsible for multiple projects with varying levels of urgency and impact.
• You'll also research, experiment, and collaborate on new solutions.
• Successful candidates are passionate about privacy, can work through challenging problems independently, and enjoy context switching between projects.
• Successful candidates also have experience in successfully driving complex regulatory asks that require input and prioritization across multiple organizations.
• The ability to learn and grow quickly is very valued in this position.
• You will be exposed to new systems, pitching alternative ideas, and actively working on the future of privacy at our organization.
• The primary duty of the Technical Compliance Specialist is to serve as the program lead for privacy-by-design implementation across Product, Design, and Marketing while staying closely connected to and taking advice from multiple legal teams.

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