Staff Privacy Analyst

$172,000 - $237,000/Yr

Lyft - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation

About the position

The Staff Privacy Analyst at Lyft plays a crucial role in ensuring that privacy is integrated into the company's products and services. This position involves conducting privacy risk assessments, providing guidance on privacy-related issues, and developing privacy policies. The analyst will work closely with various stakeholders across the organization to promote privacy excellence and mitigate potential privacy vulnerabilities in Lyft's operations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct architecture reviews of Lyft's ad tech stack and provide privacy guidance to our ad tech teams
• Help build privacy tooling including Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and infrastructure for enabling data analysis in a privacy conscious manner
• Conduct privacy risk assessments of new and existing Lyft products, services, and processes
• Build strong cross-functional relationships with product and engineering teams and advise them on complex data privacy-related issues
• Analyze system designs and data flows to identify and mitigate potential privacy vulnerabilities
• Communicate risk to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across the business and negotiate risk mitigation strategies
• Proactively drive development of privacy infrastructure, technical controls, and automation to make it easy for teams to achieve privacy excellence
• Develop and maintain internal privacy policies, guidelines, and best practices for Lyft

Requirements

• Deep domain knowledge of the ad tech ecosystem and experience with Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) such as secure multiparty compute and on device learning
• Deep knowledge of a broad range of privacy concepts and demonstrated ability to apply them to real-world situations
• Experience conducting privacy risk assessments, threat modeling, and risk mitigation
• Experience with technical privacy concepts (e.g., anonymization, encryption, differential privacy)
• Experience with privacy regulations (e.g., CCPA, GDPR)
• Strong technical background and ability to negotiate effectively with engineering teams
• Strong cross-functional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to initiate and drive projects proactively
• Code development, review, and maintenance experience in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C++) a plus
• IAPP privacy certifications (e.g., CIPP, CIPM, CIPT) a plus

Nice-to-haves

• Code development, review, and maintenance experience in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C++)
• IAPP privacy certifications (e.g., CIPP, CIPM, CIPT)

Benefits

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Unlimited paid time off for salaried team members, 15 days paid time off for hourly team members
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Lyft Pink - exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program