Privacy Systems Engineer Manager

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies

$120K — $150K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or similar field, or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering or engineering management with cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to translate regulatory requirements into structured engineering artifacts for testing.
  • Experience managing stakeholder relationships across diverse teams like legal, product, and compliance.
  • Proven track record of driving alignment and stakeholder buy-in amid competing priorities.
  • Experience leading projects with ambiguous requirements from start to finish.
  • Knowledge of privacy regulations and automotive cybersecurity standards is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain privacy requirements for vehicle systems and cloud infrastructure throughout development.
  • Identify and engage cross-functional stakeholders such as legal, product, and engineering when necessary.
  • Translate regulatory obligations like GDPR and CCPA into actionable engineering requirements.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment on privacy requirements and secure stakeholder buy-in.
  • Collaborate with engineering to ensure requirements are understood and properly implemented.
  • Enhance processes for developing and maintaining privacy requirements organization-wide.
  • Address privacy risks identified through reviews by aligning with company and regulatory goals.

Benefits

  • Annual performance bonus eligibility.
  • Equity eligibility for full-time positions.
  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits package.
  • Access to a Global Benefits Site for detailed information.
Full Job Description
Role Summary

The Product Integrity organization develops and implements security protections in the vehicle and supporting infrastructure. We are involved in the full chain of security from defining the requirements, planning software and hardware security, developing, deploying, and maintaining security protections.

As a Privacy Systems Engineering Manager in Product Integrity, this person will build out the team that leads the definition and maintenance of privacy requirements for cloud-connected vehicle systems and supporting infrastructure. This manager will help translate regulatory obligations, privacy standards, and stakeholder needs into actionable, testable engineering requirements, and will drive cross-functional alignment to ensure those requirements are understood and implemented correctly. When performing these responsibilities, this person will work closely with legal, product, program management, and engineering partners from across the Software organization, identifying the right stakeholders for each workstream and building the relationships needed to advance privacy requirements from definition through release.

Responsibilities
  • Define, own, and baseline privacy requirements for vehicle systems and cloud infrastructure throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Identify and engage the appropriate cross-functional stakeholders for each requirements workstream - including legal, product, engineering, and compliance partners - exercising judgment about who needs to be involved and when.
  • Translate regulatory obligations including GDPR, CCPA, and applicable industry standards into structured, testable engineering requirements with clear acceptance criteria.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment on privacy requirements, making a compelling case for requirement decisions and securing stakeholder buy-in across groups with competing priorities.
  • Partner with engineering teams to ensure requirements are understood and implemented correctly, and with validation engineers to ensure requirements are verifiable.
  • Help define and continuously improve the processes by which privacy requirements are developed, reviewed, and maintained across the organization.
  • Mitigate privacy risks identified through internal review or external reporting by aligning requirements with company goals and regulatory obligations.


Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or similar field, or equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, regulatory related engineering management, requirements engineering, systems engineering, technical program management, or a related discipline working with cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate regulatory, legal, or business inputs into structured engineering artifacts with testable acceptance criteria.
  • In-depth experience managing stakeholder relationships across legal, product, engineering, and compliance functions simultaneously, including experience identifying the right partners for ambiguous or novel problem areas.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive alignment across groups with competing priorities and build stakeholder buy-in for technical decisions.
  • Experience leading projects with ambiguous requirements from planning through completion.
  • Knowledge of any of the following is a plus: privacy regulations including GDPR and CCPA, privacy by design methodology, data mapping and flow analysis, privacy impact assessments, automotive cybersecurity standards including ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE WP.29.
Total Rewards

Total compensation packages for full-time positions include base salary, eligibility for an annual performance bonus, and eligibility for equity.

In addition, our benefits package has been designed to support the health and wellness of our employees. For more information on RV Tech's comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees, check out our Global Benefits Site.

External candidates can apply for this role through the RV Tech Careers site (https://rivianvw.tech/#careers). If you are a current employee, please apply through our internal job board.

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