Senior Privacy Engineer

Our Legal team at Asana works collaboratively across functions to achieve our ambitious mission of fostering effortless teamwork for everyone. We are a tightly-knit and cooperative group committed to supporting teams throughout the organization ensuring they have the necessary resources for success while protecting Asana s core values and interests. Within our team we exchange ideas collectively solve problems and collaborate with other groups to navigate through challenging issues. This role reports to Asana’s Head of Global Privacy Data Protection and Compliance. As a founding member of the Privacy Engineering team you ll shape how we build privacy into our products from the ground up bridging the legal regulatory and technical dimensions of privacy across the company.

This role can either be fully remote depending on which US state you live in or based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid sche citation-end-2697 dule / citation-end-2696. If based in-office The standard in-office days are Monday Tuesday and Thursday / citation-end-2695. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays / citation-end-2694. Working from home on Fridays d epends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you re interviewing for this role your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

What you’ll achieve

Lead technical privacy-by-design reviews for new features and major architectural changes embedding privacy controls early in the development lifecycle across our business data and product infrastructure.

Help drive compliance with global privacy regulations (such as GDPR and CCPA) by translating legal requirements into concrete engineering standards frameworks and tooling that facilitate velocity.

Evaluate and mitigate privacy risks in AI/ML systems including training data pipelines and model outputs.

Build and operate systems that enable data rights for our users and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as data minimization and de-identification frameworks.

Conduct privacy impact assessments and threat modeling for high-risk data processing activities.

Advocate for privacy-preserving solutions serve as a trusted technical advisor across the business and identify new opportunities to improve our overall privacy posture.

Partner cross-functionally to ensure our privacy policies and notices accurately reflect our underlying technology.

Develop customer-facing trust documentation on privacy and support privacy incident response efforts.

Design and implement privacy-preserving analytics and measurement systems that provide actionable insights while protecting individual user privacy.

About you

Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity collaboration or decision-making.

6+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years focused on privacy or data protection.

Passion for privacy and data protection with a deep understanding of GDPR CCPA and emerging global privacy frameworks.

Proven experience building technical controls for data governance including classification lineage retention and deletion at scale.

Familiarity with privacy risks in ML systems such as training data sourcing model memorization and inference privacy.

Strong foundation in privacy-by-design principles and hands-on experience applying them throughout product development.

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Strong communication and collaboration skills with a track r citation-2689 citation-2690 citation-end-2690 ecord of partnering effectively with legal policy and non-technical stakeholders / citation-2686 citation-2687 citation-end-2687. /

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For this role the estimated base salary range will vary based on your location. Locations in the US are categorized into one of three geographic pay zones and the ranges for the zones are as follows

Zone A $235,000 - $267,000
Zone $211,000 - $240,000
Zone C $189,000 - $216,000

For more information about which locations fall into each pay zone please visit a citation-end-2671 https://asana.com/usa-pay-zones citation-end-2670. Please also consult your recruiter to confirm the applicable pay zone for your specific location / citation-end-2669. /

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citation-end-2663 We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include

Mental health wellness fitness benefits

Career coaching support

Inclusive family building benefits

Long-term savings or retirement plans

In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences

These are just some of the benefits we offer and benefits may vary based on role country and local regulations. If you re interviewing for this role speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

About us

1 Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals faster. Asana has been named to Fortune s Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company Forbes and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.

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