Privacy Engineer - GM Financial

Why GM Financial?

GM Financial is the wholly owned captive finance subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, U.S. We are a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, South America and the Asia Pacific region. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail financing and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses.

At GM Financial, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters.

About the role: 

The Privacy Engineer acts as a subject matter expert in support of the Privacy Office. The person in this role will support the Privacy Office's function of maintaining and maturing the organization's privacy program to include the support of program framework, and policies and standards, with a focus on ad tech. This role requires managing multiple, concurrent project and task assignments, placing proper priorities on tasks and attention to detail to follow through all assignments to completion. This role reports to the Privacy Counsel.

In this role you will:

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across operations, marketing, legal, cybersecurity, data governance and privacy teams to implement privacy best practices in projects and decisions, and ensure solutions include necessary privacy components
• Serve as a subject matter expert on privacy engineering and communicate privacy solutions to non-technical stakeholders
• Develop privacy controls and features, including policies and standard, as required by privacy laws and regulations
• Influence overall strategy related to marketing and ad tech solutions, including use of privacy-enhancing technologies, and cookie management and compliance
• Manage multiple privacy projects simultaneously with urgency
• Conduct operational deep dives on privacy-related processes and systems autonomously and engineer scalable solutions

What makes you the dream candidate:

• Familiarity with global privacy laws and regulations (eg, CCPA/CPRA, Law 25, LGPD, GDPR, GLBA)
• Familiarity with data governance principles. Experience with Collibra, Informatica, or BigID is a plus
• Experience with various data engineering techniques to anonymize and pseudonymize data such as hashing, tokenization, suppression, generalization
• Demonstrated experience with privacy-related technology solutions in a security or technically-relevant role, including marketing and ad tech
• Ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory requirements into engineering and operational execution
• Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Ownership mentality, adept at managing competing priorities, anticipating issues, and proactively driving resolution

Experience: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant studies in related field or equivalent work experience required
• 5+ years handling a combination of privacy and technology matters (eg, privacy engineering, marketing ad tech compliance) required
• CIPP/US, CIPM, or CIPT privacy certification preferred

What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.

Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility

Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office

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