Here at Playco, we make games that bring the world closer together through play.
Our ideal teammates are thoughtful, humble, and passionate professionals who can both zoom into the details and zoom out to embrace the big picture. We are inspired by makers and tinkerers, who are unafraid to experiment with a healthy disregard for constraints. We hope you'll enrich our team with your enthusiasm and passion, both for games and for life.
About this Role
At Playco, we care deeply about protecting people’s privacy when they play our games. As the world’s first instant play gaming company, we partner with platform companies around the world to bring our games to their users. In doing so, we must abide by these platforms’ privacy policies in addition to protecting people’s privacy within our games. As a global company, we also strive to adhere to market standards around privacy and data use. We are looking for a lead privacy engineer to bring privacy by design into our games, systems and processes to meet these diverse requirements.
As the first privacy engineer at Playco, you’ll be working directly with the CTO and other engineering leaders to figure out a strategy and roadmap for privacy across our engineering and analytics systems. You’ll execute this strategy in partnership with other technical teams responsible for our backend services. You’ll partner closely with operational and legal counterparts within Playco to assess new privacy asks and ensure we're complying with all regulatory and partner requirements.
Responsibility
- Develop and implement solutions to ensure privacy policies are correctly implemented. The implementations should advance compliance with legal forms of data use as well as support business use of data.
- Work to align advanced technologies and Privacy by Design principles from the first stages of development and ensure that the data use meets established regulatory compliance needs.
- Collaborate with data product development teams creating new uses of data that employ privacy features.
- Interacting with, product development teams, legal, and compliance teams.
- Analyze, design and program software enhancements for new data streams with a goal of developing technical solutions and systems to help mitigate privacy vulnerabilities and prevent potential future privacy risks.
- Responsible for assisting with the management of the data privacy, data protection, data usability, performance and the integrity of the privacy solution.
- Using current programming language and technologies, creates a solid design, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications as well as completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
- Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications to new or existing software.
- Interface with other developers and architects in implementing big data solutions that enable the business to be data driven while protecting the data assets.
- Use data anonymization, pseudonymization and encryption to develop systems that preserve and improve privacy protections.
- Guide the development of new privacy products and features.
- Identify areas of improvement in local practices relative to managing data privacy.
- Performs regular privacy assessments of operational processes, identifying, and mitigating risks across the company through effective tools, training and guidance.
- Communicates program progress, escalations, and issue analysis to key stakeholders.
- Acts as key interface to analytics communities within the organization.
Desired Skills
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), ability to influence without authority.
- Ability to balance risks in ambiguous and complex situations.
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration skills, in particular in leading or contributing to global and multi-functional teams.
- Highly motivated to contribute and grow within a complex area of emerging importance.
- Experience or understanding of software applications design tools and languages.
- Understanding of design for software applications running on multiple platforms.
- Understanding of testing, coding and debugging procedures.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of software engineering fundamentals.
- Competent in the interpretation of numeric data, an understanding of statistical principles.
- Data literacy: finding and managing data, cleansing data, manipulating data.
- Ability to perform operations on large datasets.
- English and Japanese bilingual skills is a plus.
Qualifications
- BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, privacy engineering or related field of study.
- Strong software development skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to effectively communicate designs, proposals, and results; and negotiate options at management levels.
- 5 years' experience in privacy / data protection or a graduate degree or concentration in privacy engineering.
- CIPT certification a plus.
