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Senior Principal Privacy Analyst

Notion
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
$180,000 - $230,000 USD yearly
Analyst

About Us:

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

About the role:

Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. Our users depend on us to deliver a secure and trustworthy experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep building on that trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. This is where you come in — to help us forge a strong, reliable path forward to the future. The Notion application is flexible, powerful and always evolving. With a product that needs to scale to meet the needs of many thousands of businesses globally. They rely on us to protect their data and that of their customers.

Notion is looking for a privacy analyst who has a passion for partnering with teams across the organization to envision, plan and build Notion's privacy and risk governance posture.

What You'll Achieve:

  • Support our privacy governance program, including focuses on employee privacy, conducting privacy impact assessments (PIAs, DPIAs, TIAs) and developing mitigation plans.

  • Monitor privacy systems, document risks and uplift existing processes to ensure compliance.

  • Lead new privacy initiatives with an eye toward creating more efficient processes wherever possible.

  • Provide privacy subject matter expertise to teams across the organization for efforts like product development and personal data usage.

  • Collaborate with Legal to monitor and evaluate evolving laws, rules, regulations, and guidance to help maintain compliance and strategic alignment.

  • Manage and respond to privacy-related inquiries and incidents.

  • Develop and deliver privacy training to all employees.

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

  • Privacy Expertise: You have a minimum of 4+ years of experience building privacy programs at complex or fast-growing organizations.

  • Technology-Focused: You have an in-depth understanding of technology and security issues impacting privacy programs, including an understanding of security for privacy concepts and technologies (such as AI, data access governance, data classification, data discovery, encryption, masking, tokenization, information rights management, and data loss prevention).

  • Advocate of Cross-Functional Projects: You regularly advocate for privacy strengthening projects that you then lead by partnering with diverse teams to improve the privacy posture of the products for which you are responsible.

  • Project Management: You organize your work with a keen attention to detail, prioritize where necessary, and have a proven track record of driving issues to resolution.

  • Adaptable and Resilient: You possess strong problem-solving abilities, flexibility, the ability to navigate transformational growth and ambiguity, and the ability to work independently across multiple workstreams.

  • Privacy Program Management: You have experience conducting Privacy Impact Assessments, creating Records of Processing Activities, and maintaining other appropriate privacy documentation.

  • Startup mentality: You are comfortable navigating the fast moving, unstructured nature of a hyper-growth startup. You are self-motivated to add value and bias towards action.

Nice to Haves:

  • Certification in Privacy (e.g., CIPP, CIPT, CIPM certification)

  • Experience with privacy-related technology solutions (i.e., Transcend)

  • Awareness of ongoing and recent developments across the privacy landscape

  • Involvement in local or regional security user groups or conferences

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.


Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco and New York, the estimated base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $230,000 per year. For qualified candidates, Notion may consider a full-time remote candidate.


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