Senior Privacy Analyst, Privacy Operations

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.

Last updated on Aug 20, 2024