Data Privacy Compliance Manager - Avalara

The Privacy Compliance Manager will help shape and implement Avalara's privacy strategy.

This will be an individual contributor role reporting to the Deputy Chief Security Officer.

*This role is not eligible for Visa sponsorship*

The Privacy Compliance Manager will further develop our privacy governance, aligning with domestic and international regulations. They will conduct regular privacy risk assessments and manage privacy impact assessments across the company. They will deliver training programs aimed at promoting a strong culture of data protection awareness amongst employees. By advocating for privacy by design principles and practices, the Privacy Compliance Manager will ensure Avalara upholds the highest standards of data protection to improve our compliance posture and build trust with customers and partners.

• Conduct privacy compliance activities, including working with data owners and stewards on creating privacy impact assessments, records of processing activities, data protection impact assessments, and privacy gap analyses
• Identify gaps in internal privacy compliance and documentation and report on related metrics
• Work with internal partners and stakeholders, such as Legal, Risk, Security, Product, and Engineering to ensure processes are in place to manage evolving privacy obligations, including the management of data subject access requests
• As an important member of Avalara's Global Privacy Office, facilitate and manage process tracking
• Help implement Privacy by Design principles into product development
• Champion privacy awareness across the company through developing training on privacy policies, procedures and global regulations
• Keep up to date with new technologies and regulatory changes, advising the Privacy Office and senior management on privacy trends and compliance strategies
• Support projects to address global privacy obligations across multiple teams
• Manage privacy related inquiries from all internal partners
• Track, investigate, and help respond to privacy-related security incidents

• You have 5+ years’ experience managing privacy programs
• You have a completed bachelor’s degree
• You enjoy using your knowledge of GDPR, CCPA and other privacy regulations
• You have some experience with BigID, OneTrust and ServiceNow.
• You are experienced in translating legal and contractual requirements to technical controls
• You have some professional experience participating in audits such as SOC and ISO
• You are certified in CISSP or CIPP

We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. 

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year. 

Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now.  Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear.  It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

EEO Statement

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.