Privacy Governance, Senior Manager

Location: Panthersville

The Privacy Governance Senior Manager leads execution across Cox Automotive's privacy compliance program, with a primary focus on building and advancing the organization's privacy engineering capabilities. This role manages a team of privacy engineers responsible for consent management infrastructure, cookie governance, opt-out mechanisms, and privacy library maintenance, while also driving broader privacy compliance operations across the enterprise. The Senior Manager partners closely with Privacy Legal, Data strategy, Engineering, and Product stakeholders to ensure Cox Automotive's privacy practices are technically sound, operationally effective, and aligned with evolving regulatory requirements.

A critical responsibility of this role is partnering closely with the broader privacy operations team to assess, onboard, and integrate brands and acquired entities into Cox Automotive's centralized privacy program and infrastructure. This role advances privacy-by-design principles by embedding technical oversight and compliance rigor into the technology development lifecycle and operates with a high degree of autonomy, making independent decisions and resolving cross-functional disputes in the best interest of Cox Automotive.

What You'll Do:

Privacy Engineering Leadership

• Lead and develop a team of privacy engineers, ensuring operational excellence and continuity across cookie categorization, cookie opt-out scanning, consent management platform (CMP) operations, and privacy library maintenance.
• Serve as the technical subject matter expert for the privacy engineering function, providing ideation, solution feedback, and architectural guidance to direct reports.
• Maintain sufficient technical depth across the team's domains to support continuity and reduce key-person risk.
• Oversee the maintenance and evolution of Cox Automotive's privacy technology stack, including consent management platforms, tag management systems, cookie scanning infrastructure, and personal data inventory tooling.
• Evaluate vendor capabilities and contribute technical perspective to privacy technology investment decisions and build/buy evaluations.
• Partner with Data Strategy and Engineering teams to integrate privacy-enhancing technologies into enterprise systems and development workflows.

Privacy Compliance Program Operations

• Execute and monitor privacy compliance activities across Cox Automotive, serving as a central subject matter expert partnering with federated teams across the enterprise.
• Support and advance privacy compliance initiatives on the privacy program roadmap, including but not limited to privacy risk assessments, data flow documentation, third-party privacy reviews, and regulatory compliance operations.
• Monitor privacy risk across the organization and ensure corrective actions are identified and tracked to resolution.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of privacy program standards, processes, and documentation.

Brand and Acquisition Privacy Onboarding

• Partner with the broader privacy operations team to lead privacy onboarding for brands and acquired entities, including compliance assessments, gap identification, remediation planning, and integration into Cox Automotive's centralized privacy infrastructure.
• Evaluate the privacy posture of brands and acquisitions, assessing data practices, consent mechanisms, and regulatory compliance obligations against enterprise standards.
• Drive the technical integration of brands onto Cox Automotive's centralized consent management, opt-out, and privacy library infrastructure.
• Develop and execute onboarding playbooks that scale across acquisition types and brand structures.

Cross-Functional Partnership a nd Program Enablement

• Interface directly with Privacy Legal, Data Strategy, Engineering, and Product stakeholders to advance enterprise privacy program objectives.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on privacy-by-design principles for new products, features, and third-party integrations.
• Translate technical privacy concepts for non-technical audiences including legal, compliance, and executive stakeholders.
• Provide consultation to product and engineering teams on privacy requirements throughout…