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Privacy Engineer III, Global Business Strategy and Operations

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Boulder, COJob$147–210K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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Compensation
$147–210K/yr
Location
Boulder, CO
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Privacy Engineer III will support Google’s Global Business Strategy and Operations team by reviewing launches and advising teams on privacy. The role designs privacy-protective solutions, guides engineering and product teams on data practices, identifies privacy concerns, responds to incidents, and partners across privacy, security, data protection, and storage. The team supports Google’s global business organization and advertising business.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Privacy Solution DesignPrivacy TechnologiesPrivacy Data HandlingInformation PrivacyPrivacy Design DocumentsRisk AnalysisRisk AssessmentRisk ManagementData AnalyticsRisk BalancingResource AllocationDifferential PrivacyFederated LearningSecure Multi-Party ComputationAI/ML PrivacyModel PrivacyData MinimizationSynthetic Data GenerationRegulatory FrameworksGDPRCCPAStakeholder Communication

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience2 Years Privacy Solution Design Experience2 Years Privacy Technology ExperienceEnglish Proficiency

Full job description

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XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

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The application window will be open until at least November 4, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 2 years of experience designing solutions that maintain or enhance the privacy posture of the organization by analyzing and assessing proposed engineering designs (e.g., product features, infrastructure systems) and influencing stakeholders.

  • 2 years of experience applying privacy technologies (e.g., differential privacy, automated access management solutions, etc.), and customizing existing solutions and frameworks to meet organizational needs.

  • Experience in privacy, business communication, privacy data handling, information privacy, and privacy design documents.

  • Experience with risk analysis, risk assessments, risk management and data analytics.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience balancing risks in ambiguous and complex situations with multiple stakeholders.

  • Experience managing multiple high priority requests, while determining resource allocation (e.g., time, prioritization) to solve the problems in a fast-paced, changing organization.

  • Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies (e.g., differential privacy, federated learning, and secure multi-party computation).

  • Experience with AI/ML privacy, including model privacy, data minimization in training sets, or synthetic data generation.

  • Knowledge of common regulatory frameworks (e.g., General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)).

  • Ability to resolve high-stakes policy/product conflicts by communicating technical risks to both technical and non-technical executive stakeholders.

About the job

The Global Business Strategy and Operations (GBS&O) team is responsible for providing insightful review, perspective and direction on the strategy and operating performance of Google’s Global Business Organization (GBO). GBO comprises all the sales, services, product commercialization and business development/partnerships teams that power Google’s multi-billion dollar ads business.

GBS&O includes critical strategic and operational teams that accelerate Google’s performance including a) Chief of Staff and Strategic Narratives team that supports GBO leadership, b) Global Business Strategy and Planning, c) Data Insights and Analytics, and d) Ads Policy, Risk and Compliance.

GBS&O is part of the Global Go-to-Market (GTM) organization that ensures Google's large and complex advertising business is pursuing the best strategy and executing flawlessly. Team members are experts in business strategy and operations - investigative, principled and strategic, yet highly pragmatic and results-oriented.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Conduct privacy reviews and provide consultation requests from GBO teams seeking privacy guidance related to their launches. Design and implement privacy-protective solutions.

  • Guide engineering and product teams during product development to ensure their data collection and usage practices are transparent and protect user privacy.

  • Conduct technical and policy reviews to identify and escalate potential privacy concerns.

  • Respond to Privacy incidents, including root cause analysis and managing remediation.

  • Partner with cross-functional teams on topics related to privacy, security, data protection and data storage.

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How this job compares

Set against the 188 open Privacy jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$147–210K/yr
  • US median$129–204K/yr164 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $179K, is 8% above the US median midpoint ($165K) — in the middle half of Privacy salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 188 open Privacy jobs across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Privacy postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (172 postings).
Education
131 of the 188 open Privacy jobs (70%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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