Why Data Privacy at GM Financial?
Do you enjoy problem solving, data privacy and tackling complex technical challenges? The GM Financial Privacy team partners with stakeholders across GM Financial to promote to architect and implement privacy protocols, ensuring adherence to applicable laws and regulations. If you enjoy privacy, love collaborating with others, and thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, then this is the role for you!
At GM Financial, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.
Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters.
ResponsibilitiesAbout the role:
The Privacy Engineer will act as a subject matter expert in support of the GM Financial Privacy Office. The person in this role will support the Privacy Office's function of maintaining and maturing the organization's privacy program by contributing to program framework, and policies and standards, with a focus on ad tech. Prioritization skills, attention to detail, and the ability to consistently drive assignments to a strong end state are key to success in this role.
In this role you will:
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders across operations, marketing, legal, cybersecurity, data governance, digital, and privacy teams to implement privacy best practices in projects and decisions, and ensure solutions include necessary privacy components.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on privacy engineering and communicate privacy solutions to non-technical stakeholders.
- Develop privacy controls and features, including policies, procedures, and standard, as required by privacy laws and regulations.
- Influence overall strategy related to marketing and ad tech solutions, including use of privacy-enhancing technologies, and cookie management and compliance.
- Manage multiple privacy projects simultaneously with urgency.
- Conduct operational deep dives on privacy-related processes and systems autonomously and engineer scalable solutions.
What makes you an ideal candidate?
- Familiarity with global privacy laws and regulations (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, Law 25, LGPD, app accountability laws) and how technical implementations map to them.
- Familiarity with data governance principles.
- Strong technical background , including the ability to read code and write scripts (Python) to support monitoring the implementation of privacy controls and to automate routine audits. .
- Experience with OneTrust, Syrennis, or Adobe a plus.
- Experience with various data engineering techniques to anonymize and pseudonymize data such as hashing, tokenization, suppression, generalization.
- Demonstrated experience with privacy-related technology solutions in a security or technically relevant role, including marketing and ad tech.
- Experience developing or advising on the implementation of consent management workflows.
- Strong understanding of mobile and web tracking technologies.
- Ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory privacy requirements into clear technical and operational solutions.
- Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Ownership mentality, adept at managing competing priorities, anticipating issues, and proactively driving resolution.
- Working effectively within an AI enabled environment.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Information Systems or other related field and/or equivalent work experience required.
- 2+ years handling a combination of privacy and technology matters (e.g., privacy engineering, digital marketing compliance) required.
Licenses
- CIPT privacy certification preferred
What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.
Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.
Work Life Balance: 100% remote
The base range for this role is: $61,000 - $116,000
At GM Financial, we strive for transparency in all aspects of our business, including pay equity. This is the GM Financial pay range for this role and job level. The exact salary and compensation will vary based on factors like knowledge, skills, experience, and education.
This role is eligible to participate in a performance-based incentive plan. Full time employees are eligible to participate in health benefits on day one of employment.
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Skills Required
- 2-4 years handling a combination of privacy and technology matters (privacy engineering, marketing ad tech compliance)
- Familiarity with global privacy laws and regulations (CCPA/CPRA, Law 25, LGPD, GDPR, GLBA)
- Familiarity with data governance principles
- Strong technical background
- Experience with OneTrust, Informatica, or BigID
- Experience with data engineering techniques to anonymize and pseudonymize data such as hashing, tokenization, suppression, generalization
- Demonstrated experience with privacy-related technology solutions in a security or technically-relevant role, including marketing and ad tech
- Ability to translate technical, legal, and regulatory requirements into engineering and operational execution
- Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills
- Ownership mentality; adept at managing competing priorities and proactively driving resolution
- CIPP/US, CIPM, or CIPT privacy certification
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
- Work a flexible schedule including extended business hours, weekends and holidays; subject to daily service level requirements; must handle stressful office conditions
- Working effectively within an AI-enabled environment
GM Financial Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Annual and performance bonuses are described as meaningful additions to total compensation. In several functions, incentives reliably boost take-home pay when available.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous paid time off, corporate and floating holidays, and paid volunteer time are emphasized. Time-away programs contribute significantly to perceived total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and family-friendly policies are highlighted, with recent expansions mentioned in some areas. Support for bonding time is seen as a notable strength of the package.
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What We Do
GM Financial is the captive finance company and the wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The company is a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, Latin America and China. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail loan and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses. GM Financial employs more than 9,000 hard-working team members, and we're always looking for new people with diverse talents. GM Financial is a workplace where dedicated people have the opportunity to work together and celebrate our successes. Our culture is based on respect, integrity, innovation and personal development. GM Financial is committed to strengthening the communities where we live and work. Each year, we select several philanthropic organizations to support through our Signature Events program. The company and its team members actively support these organizations through many company-wide initiatives; in addition we support numerous other nonprofit organizations through sponsorships and monetary donations.
