Senior Privacy Engineer (Minneapolis, MN)

Senior Privacy Engineer (Minneapolis, MN)

Department: Cloud Platform Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Reporting To: Dylan Barnes

Description

We’re SmartThings, one of the leading IoT ecosystems in the world, creating the most effortless way for anyone to create a smart home. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung, our corporate offices are based in Minneapolis and the Bay Area.

More than 350 million people worldwide use SmartThings to control and manage their connected life. SmartThings delivers simple, powerful experiences across Samsung’s leading portfolio of phones, TVs, and appliances.  We also offer the most versatile smart home experience as an open platform with a rich partner ecosystem (think IKEA, SONOS, Honeywell, and so many more). As a founding member of Matter, we are a leader in the industry to help make smart homes more secure, reliable and seamless to use.  Come be a part of the leading edge of IoT innovation!

About The Team

The Information Security and Privacy team at SmartThings is responsible for empowering our partners to succeed safely and securely. The world of IoT represents many new opportunities for how computers interact with the world around, and with that brings new challenges. As a Privacy Engineer your role will support our ecosystem, its expansion, and growing list of new features to ensure the assets of SmartThings and our users are protected at all times.

Key Responsibilities

This position is a hybrid role, based onsite 3 days a week at our office in Minneapolis, MN. 

In this role, your primary responsibilities will include the following: 

• Collaborate with partner teams to achieve key initiatives by providing privacy expertise.
• Ensure necessary privacy requirements are well understood and privacy processes are in place while empowering engineers to do their jobs confidently.
• Assess the appropriateness and effectiveness of privacy measures and recommend enhancements.
• Evaluate response methodologies to ensure a quick and thorough response to privacy issues.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Inclusive Hiring Practices

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At SmartThings, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications) 

• 5+ years of experience in privacy operations or similar experience.
• Experience consulting with a diverse range of internal customers on various privacy topics (e.g. privacy architecture review, risk review, impact assessment).
• Knowledge of privacy principles and privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
• Familiar with fundamental computer science concepts.

Desired Skills

• Familiar with AWS (EC2, Networking, Security Hub, Inspector, etc.)
• Familiarity navigating compliance with international standards (e.g. ISO 27001) and/or internal compliance
• Experience with AI as it relates to Privacy

SmartThings Benefits

• We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health; an HSA with employer contribution; life & disability insurance; FSAs for health and dependent care expenses; a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match, and more.
• All of our employees enjoy unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave). 
• Eligible employees benefit from our education reimbursement program, and all employees enjoy access to learning resources through O’Reilly.
• Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging is embedded into our culture and our work, and everyone has frequent opportunities to join forums and groups and participate in ongoing projects.
• We offer a parking stipend to cover the monthly garage cost. EV chargers are also onsite.
• In-office catered lunches on Thursdays.
• Access to the onsite gym.

Base compensation range for this position is $115,747 to $164,852. Actual base within this range will depend on many factors including experience, skills, technical expertise and market alignment. In addition, this role is eligible for a 20% annual target bonus based heavily on individual performance.

At SmartThings, we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all. If you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process or to perform the requirements of the job, we will work with you to meet your needs in compliance with applicable laws. Please reach out to talent@smartthings.com and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will connect with you further!