Senior Privacy Engineer

Our Legal team at Asana works collaboratively across functions to achieve our ambitious mission of fostering effortless teamwork for everyone. We are a tightly-knit and cooperative group committed to supporting teams throughout the organization, ensuring they have the necessary resources for success while protecting Asana's core values and interests. Within our team, we exchange ideas, collectively solve problems, and collaborate with other groups to navigate through challenging issues. This role reports to Asana’s Head of Global Privacy, Data Protection, and Compliance. As a founding member of the Privacy Engineering team, you'll shape how we build privacy into our products from the ground up — bridging the legal, regulatory, and technical dimensions of privacy across the company. 

This role can either be fully remote depending on which US state you live in, or based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. If based in-office: The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

What you’ll achieve

• Lead technical privacy-by-design reviews for new features and major architectural changes, embedding privacy controls early in the development lifecycle across our business, data, and product infrastructure.

• Help drive compliance with global privacy regulations (such as GDPR and CCPA) by translating legal requirements into concrete engineering standards, frameworks, and tooling that facilitate velocity.

• Evaluate and mitigate privacy risks in AI/ML systems, including training data pipelines and model outputs.

• Build and operate systems that enable data rights for our users and privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), such as data minimization and de-identification frameworks.

• Conduct privacy impact assessments and threat modeling for high-risk data processing activities.

• Advocate for privacy-preserving solutions, serve as a trusted technical advisor across the business, and identify new opportunities to improve our overall privacy posture.

• Partner cross-functionally to ensure our privacy policies and notices accurately reflect our underlying technology.

• Develop customer-facing trust documentation on privacy and support privacy incident response efforts.

• Design and implement privacy-preserving analytics and measurement systems that provide actionable insights while protecting individual user privacy.

About you

• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years focused on privacy or data protection.

• Passion for privacy and data protection with a deep understanding of GDPR, CCPA, and emerging global privacy frameworks.

• Proven experience building technical controls for data governance, including classification, lineage, retention, and deletion at scale.

• Familiarity with privacy risks in ML systems, such as training data sourcing, model memorization, and inference privacy.

• Strong foundation in privacy-by-design principles and hands-on experience applying them throughout product development.

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex regulatory and legal requirements into clear engineering specifications.

• Experience with cryptographic techniques, anonymization, and de-identification frameworks.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering effectively with legal, policy, and non-technical stakeholders.

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

What we’ll offer Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

For this role, the estimated base salary range will vary based on your location. Locations in the US are categorized into one of three geographic pay zones, and the ranges for the zones are as follows:

Zone A: $235,000 - $267,000
Zone B: $211,000 - $240,000
Zone C: $189,000 - $216,000

For more information about which locations fall into each pay zone, please visit https://asana.com/usa-pay-zones. Please also consult your recruiter to confirm the applicable pay zone for your specific location.

The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed ranges above are a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include:

• Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits

• Career coaching & support

• Inclusive family building benefits

• Long-term savings or retirement plans

• In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

About us

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.

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