• Job Description

  Req#: 5161154

  Are you a privacy enthusiast with the skills to protect personal data like a superhero? GitHub is looking to find our next Privacy Analyst, who can wield their GDPR knowledge and privacy expertise to keep our data fortress private and our users' trust intact. You'll be joining our dynamic privacy team, consisting of two privacy professionals who are dedicated to taking GitHub’s privacy program to the next level of maturity and scalability. With a proactive and forward-thinking approach, this team is focused on transforming GitHub’s privacy practices into a highly efficient and scalable framework while maintaining the highest standards of data protection and building upon our already excellent foundation.

  What we are looking for:

  As a Privacy Analyst at GitHub, your primary mission is to document complex privacy principles into straightforward privacy controls and actionable requirements. You'll be our go-to expert in GDPR, guiding your fellow Hubbers in the battle against personal data mistreatment and ensuring we meet the highest standards.

  Responsibilities:

  • Regulatory Virtuoso: Be one of our resident GDPR gurus, keeping up-to-date with regulations, and providing guidance to internal teams on how to stay compliant.
  • Privacy Controls Alchemist: Develop, implement, and maintain privacy controls, particularly in relation to getting an ISO 27018 certification, making sure our data protection measures are top-notch and aligned with certifications and best practices.
  • Privacy Translator: Interpret privacy regulations and principles, transforming them into clear, actionable requirements for implementation across GitHub.
  • Collaboration Sidekick: Partner with cross-functional teams, helping them understand and implement privacy requirements and spreading the gospel of data protection.
  • Compliance Protector: Conduct privacy impact assessments, identifying potential risks, and recommending corrective measures to ensure privacy by design and continuous improvement.
  • AI Adventurer: Together with your colleagues, you'll dive headfirst into the world of emerging AI regulations, seeking to understand and demystify them. You'll help GitHub to understand and apply best practices, ensuring we're prepared to face any challenges that come our way.
  • Data Breach Defender: Act as a key player in managing data incidents, collaborating with other teams to mitigate risks and prevent future incidents.

  Required Qualifications:

  • 3 years of experience in a privacy, data protection or similar role
  • Working knowledge of GDPR
  • Working knowledge of relevant data protection regulations and enforcement actions (CCPA, FTC, etc.)

  Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field (Information Security, Computer Science, Law, Cybersecurity or equivalent)
  • Strong understanding of privacy principles, certifications, and frameworks
  • CIPP Certification
  • Excellent communication skills, able to convey complex information in a clear, engaging manner

  Minimum salary of $61,300 to maximum $162,500.

  These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role.

  In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

  Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United States.

  #LI-Remote

  Who We Are:

  As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

  Leadership Principles:

  Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness

  Why You Should Join:

  At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We've designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote

  We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.

  GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!

  Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.

• About the company

  GitHub is where over 56 million developers shape the future of software, together. Contribute to the open source community, manage your Git repositories, review code like a pro, track bugs and features, power your CI/CD and DevOps workflows, and secure...

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