Senior Manager, Privacy Engineering

Snap Inc () is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company’s three core products are Snapchat () , a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world;
Lens Studio () , an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles () .

Snap Engineering () teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snap chatters around the world, every day. We’re deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values () are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.

We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Privacy Engineering to join our CISO staff and lead Snap’s engineering initiatives across privacy, data protection, and data compliance.

• Lead a team of highly talented privacy managers, engineers, and governance specialists, fostering growth, innovation, and collaboration.

• Set the vision for privacy engineering and data governance, ensuring alignment with Snap’s business objectives.

• Ensure that privacy and data protection principles are seamlessly integrated into Snap’s products, services, and operations, while aligning with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.

• Establish and enforce data governance policies and frameworks to ensure data integrity, security, and compliance.

• Ability to lead multiple engineering teams and execute large, complex privacy programs and processes.

• Ability to effectively advocate for and influence strategic initiatives at the highest leadership levels.

• Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of a company.

• Strong technical grasp of privacy fundamentals as well as machine learning, cryptography, data classification, and data lineage.

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience

• 10+ years of post-Bachelor’s software development experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 9+ year of post-grad software development experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 6+ years of post-grad software development experience

• including 4+ years of hands‑on individual contributor experience, working in privacy engineering or related fields (data governance, access control, compliance)

• 2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager

• MS/PhD in a relevant field such as Privacy/Cryptography/Statistics/ML

• Demonstrated technical leadership in applications of privacy enhancing technologies, machine learning, and analytical techniques for privacy assurances and validation at scale

• Track record of delivering large-scale projects in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi‑stakeholder environments

• Experience navigating global privacy compliance programs (GDPR, CCPA, DSA, etc.)

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