Senior Privacy Analyst, Privacy Operations

Full Time
4 months ago

Get to know OktaOkta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app. Our Workforce and Customer Identity Clouds enable secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. Join our team! We’re building a world where Identity belongs to you.

Accelerate your career by joining Okta as a member of our growing Privacy team! As Privacy Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting privacy across all aspects of the organization at a high-growth, publicly-traded enterprise software company. You will work on cutting-edge privacy projects, in a modern, cloud-first, SaaS environment, to help Okta deliver world-class products to our thousands of global customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Be an integral part of shaping a culture of privacy throughout Okta.
  • Assist Okta departments to further adopt privacy by design into all products and processes.
  • Support and guide the business in complying with privacy requirements, including tracking changes to applicable privacy laws and regulations.
  • Carry out data protection impact assessments, transfer risk assessments, and supporting audits as needed.
  • Assist in the development and implementation of privacy controls across Okta.
  • Manage data subject requests and be the main point of contact for ensuring our processes run smoothly.
  • Implement tactical, measurable and scalable processes for demonstrating privacy compliance.
  • Form strong collaborative relationships with Okta teams globally.
  • Provide integral input in improving and maturing our privacy program and processes.

Skills and Abilities:

  • Demonstrated ability to take initiative and responsibility.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and in high pressure situations.
  • Organized, responsive, and persistent with good follow-through.
  • Self-motivated, willing to learn, and able to conduct research on constantly evolving data privacy standards. 
  • Effectively balance competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced environment.
  • Enjoy operating both independently and cross-functionally.
  • Be an emerging subject matter expert in privacy laws, regulations, policies, standards, with a desire to build skills providing practical, concise privacy knowledge to help Okta teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 3-5+ years of experience in privacy compliance, data governance or similar legal/compliance analyst roles.
  • Fundamental project management skills (e.g. project charters, trackers, timelines, and reports).
  • Relevant privacy certifications (e.g. CIPP, CIPT, or CIPM) desired.
  • Experience working for a technology company, in-house privacy team, privacy department, or consulting firm.
  • Experience working with or for global cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers.
  • Sophisticated Microsoft Office and GSuite skills (e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Docs, Sheets, or Slides).
  • Proficiency with project management practices, workflow tools and methodologies (e.g. DataGrail, Airtable, JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheets) desired.
  • Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in law, public policy, information sciences, or privacy a plus.

What you can look forward to as an Full-Time Okta employee!

  • Amazing Benefits
  • Making Social Impact
  • Fostering Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Okta 

Okta cultivates a dynamic work environment, providing the best tools, technology and benefits to empower our employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs. Each organization is unique in the degree of flexibility and mobility in which they work so that all employees are enabled to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves, regardless of where they live. Find your place at Okta today! https://www.okta.com/company/careers/.

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please use this Form to request an accommodation.

Okta is committed to complying with applicable data privacy and security laws and regulations. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.okta.com/privacy-policy/.