Director, Privacy Exam and Audit

The global privacy regulatory landscape is not static, and the product and technical landscape at Meta changes multiple times daily to continue to meet and exceed the needs of the billions of people on our platforms. The Director of the Privacy Exam and Audit team works at the center of privacy regulation, legal, business, product, and engineering to put our users' privacy at the center of everything we do.

The Privacy Exam and Audit program is part of Meta's Regulatory Compliance Programs organization and establishes, diagnoses, improves, and manages compliance for better user outcomes and operational effectiveness — while providing visibility into the state of compliance at every step along the way. The team is responsible for creating, maintaining, and improving Meta's company-wide privacy compliance and audit operations to improve the reliability and maturity of our privacy practices.

We are looking for a seasoned leader who brings operational scale and deep privacy compliance and audit expertise to lead and develop an industry-leading privacy program. Someone who shares our passion for tackling privacy complexities head-on, to help design and build continuous operational compliance practices at massive scale while representing our users and their privacy at the forefront of everything we do.

In this role, you will create and improve company-wide operational processes to establish, measure, and improve privacy practices and compliance measures, execute testing, and report on the state of compliance. This role is a trusted partner to product, business, legal, and engineering teams across the company, developing deep insights and driving improvements into the mechanics of how teams incorporate compliance and privacy-by-design into their operations and product life cycles.

This role is also Meta's face to the outside: the Director owns the day-to-day relationship with our external auditors, independent assessors, and regulators — managing their requests, defending our compliance position, and building the credibility that makes that position stick. Success is defined as much by influence as by ownership: the Director translates engineering and product reality into a defensible compliance position, and must be equally credible in front of a regulator, an external assessor, a Board committee, and an engineering leader whose roadmap they are trying to shape.

• Define, refine, and scale company-wide privacy compliance operating processes (i.e.
• privacy control testing, issue management, change management, certification).
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable compliance operations with a well-documented roadmap, goals, and objectives.
• Develop and improve testing procedures to measure and improve the effectiveness of privacy controls and safeguards.
• Develop and manage KPIs to drive continuous improvement to the compliance operating model.
• Develop long-term objectives for how we will evolve the privacy program operating model while delivering on immediate priorities.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team, including managers, senior individual contributors, and contingent workforce.
• Provide guidance to product, business, and engineering teams on complying with the Privacy Program and its day-to-day objectives.
• Become a trusted partner, working and influencing cross-functionally with leadership, engineering, product, and business teams — building a deep understanding of how their teams work, their needs, and how privacy compliance can be operationalized into their teams.
• Evaluate, evolve, and create program controls and protocols working with legal and privacy product teams.
• Own accountability for regulated deliverables with fixed external deadlines, and represent the state…