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Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
Senior Director, Legal - Global Privacy & Data Counsel
San Mateo, CA or London, England | Hybrid - 2+ days per week in your designated office
Full relocation assistance available for qualified candidates
Role Summary:
Leading SIE’s Global Legal Privacy program, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing this function, which is central to our mission as a data-driven technology and entertainment company. You will develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive privacy policies, procedures, and practices that reflect industry best practices, comply with applicable data protection laws and regulations, and support SIE’s business objectives. Working collaboratively with teams around the world, you will help embed strong data privacy stewardship across the organization through your leadership, passion, and expertise.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Lead the Privacy Team: Lead a team of professionals spanning legal, operations and compliance, and data governance. Provide strong leadership to build a well-functioning team.
- Privacy Program Development: Design, implement, and evolve a robust and forward-thinking privacy program tailored to the specific needs of SIE’s multi-faceted, data-driven business. Provide senior leadership in communicating company's vision, strategy, and objectives for data privacy and data husbandry to stakeholders across SIE.
- Regulatory Compliance: Stay up to date with evolving global privacy laws and regulations, including GDPR, CCPA, and other regional data protection requirements. Ensure the company's policies and practices remain compliant with the changing legal landscape.
- Privacy by Design: Advocate privacy-by-design principles and ensure that privacy considerations are integrated into the development of new products, services, and technologies, working closely with product counselors, product managers, business function leaders and SIE’s ESG team.
- Privacy Policies and Procedures: Create and review privacy policies, notices, consent forms, and related documentation to ensure transparency and compliance with relevant data protection laws. Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and other teams to disseminate these policies throughout the organization and to customers.
- Employee Training and Awareness: Conduct privacy training programs for employees and management to promote a privacy-aware culture. Foster awareness of privacy responsibilities and best practices throughout the organization.
- Vendor Management: Develop and evolve SIE’s processes to assess the privacy practices of vendors and third-party partners to ensure that data processing agreements and contracts comply with privacy and SIE’s Information Security requirements.
- Privacy Impact Assessments: Oversee the conduct of privacy impact assessments (PIAs) to identify and mitigate privacy risks associated with the company's data processing activities.
- Incident Response: Develop and maintain an effective incident response plan for privacy breaches. Coordinate with the Incident Response team to manage and mitigate privacy incidents and associated risks.
- Reporting and Accountability: Provide regular reports on the status of the privacy program to executive leadership and the board of directors. Be a focal point of contact for privacy-related inquiries from regulators and customers.
What We’re Looking For:
- Juris doctor degree; bachelor or advanced degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. An advanced degree is a plus.
- 20+ years of legal experience and 10+ years proven experience in a senior privacy leadership role, preferably as a Chief Privacy Officer or Privacy Officer, within a data-driven technology company or relevant industry.
- In-depth knowledge of global privacy laws and regulations, such as GDPR, CCPA, and other regional frameworks. Broad knowledge of emerging requires in the APAC region a strong plus.
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement comprehensive privacy programs that align with industry best practices, laws and regulations and data use requirements typical of a company like SIE.
- Experience in building an incident response process with partnership with the CISO or similar function; experience managing privacy incidents.
- Experience conducting privacy impact assessments and building processes for such assessments that will easily scale.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Strong leadership qualities, with the ability to influence and drive change in a collaborative environment. Privacy-related certifications such as CIPP, CIPM, CIPT, or other relevant certifications are highly desirable.
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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package.
Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
Senior Director, Legal - Global Privacy & Data Counsel
San Mateo, CA or London, England | Hybrid - 2+ days per week in your designated office
Full relocation assistance available for qualified candidates
Role Summary:
Leading SIE’s Global Legal Privacy program, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing this function, which is central to our mission as a data-driven technology and entertainment company. You will develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive privacy policies, procedures, and practices that reflect industry best practices, comply with applicable data protection laws and regulations, and support SIE’s business objectives. Working collaboratively with teams around the world, you will help embed strong data privacy stewardship across the organization through your leadership, passion, and expertise.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Lead the Privacy Team: Lead a team of professionals spanning legal, operations and compliance, and data governance. Provide strong leadership to build a well-functioning team.
- Privacy Program Development: Design, implement, and evolve a robust and forward-thinking privacy program tailored to the specific needs of SIE’s multi-faceted, data-driven business. Provide senior leadership in communicating company's vision, strategy, and objectives for data privacy and data husbandry to stakeholders across SIE.
- Regulatory Compliance: Stay up to date with evolving global privacy laws and regulations, including GDPR, CCPA, and other regional data protection requirements. Ensure the company's policies and practices remain compliant with the changing legal landscape.
- Privacy by Design: Advocate privacy-by-design principles and ensure that privacy considerations are integrated into the development of new products, services, and technologies, working closely with product counselors, product managers, business function leaders and SIE’s ESG team.
- Privacy Policies and Procedures: Create and review privacy policies, notices, consent forms, and related documentation to ensure transparency and compliance with relevant data protection laws. Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and other teams to disseminate these policies throughout the organization and to customers.
- Employee Training and Awareness: Conduct privacy training programs for employees and management to promote a privacy-aware culture. Foster awareness of privacy responsibilities and best practices throughout the organization.
- Vendor Management: Develop and evolve SIE’s processes to assess the privacy practices of vendors and third-party partners to ensure that data processing agreements and contracts comply with privacy and SIE’s Information Security requirements.
- Privacy Impact Assessments: Oversee the conduct of privacy impact assessments (PIAs) to identify and mitigate privacy risks associated with the company's data processing activities.
- Incident Response: Develop and maintain an effective incident response plan for privacy breaches. Coordinate with the Incident Response team to manage and mitigate privacy incidents and associated risks.
- Reporting and Accountability: Provide regular reports on the status of the privacy program to executive leadership and the board of directors. Be a focal point of contact for privacy-related inquiries from regulators and customers.
What We’re Looking For:
- Juris doctor degree; bachelor or advanced degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field. An advanced degree is a plus.
- 20+ years of legal experience and 10+ years proven experience in a senior privacy leadership role, preferably as a Chief Privacy Officer or Privacy Officer, within a data-driven technology company or relevant industry.
- In-depth knowledge of global privacy laws and regulations, such as GDPR, CCPA, and other regional frameworks. Broad knowledge of emerging requires in the APAC region a strong plus.
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement comprehensive privacy programs that align with industry best practices, laws and regulations and data use requirements typical of a company like SIE.
- Experience in building an incident response process with partnership with the CISO or similar function; experience managing privacy incidents.
- Experience conducting privacy impact assessments and building processes for such assessments that will easily scale.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Strong leadership qualities, with the ability to influence and drive change in a collaborative environment. Privacy-related certifications such as CIPP, CIPM, CIPT, or other relevant certifications are highly desirable.
-
#LI-SF1
At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package.
Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Law & Legal Services
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Insurance
- Telecommunications
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in data privacy analyst jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, law, or a related field
- Knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, or other applicable privacy regulations
- Experience conducting privacy impact assessments and data mapping exercises
- Familiarity with data governance tools, consent management platforms, or OneTrust
- CIPP, CIPM, or CIPT certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals
- Ability to draft and review privacy policies, data processing agreements, and notices
Tips for Your Data Privacy Analyst Job Search
Align your resume to specific frameworks
Hiring managers scan for GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA by name, so call out each regulation you've worked under and the specific tasks you performed, like data mapping, consent management, or breach notification drafting.
Certify before competing for senior roles
The CIPP, CIPM, and CIPT credentials from the IAPP signal domain fluency that a job title alone cannot. If you lack one, list it as in-progress with your expected completion date to stay competitive against certified applicants.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists data privacy analyst openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target job postings by privacy law exposure
Filter openings by the state law or sector regulation the employer operates under. A healthtech company hiring under HIPAA needs different day-to-day skills than a consumer app navigating CCPA, so matching your background to the law matters.
Prepare a scenario answer about a real incident
Interviewers in this field routinely ask how you handled a data subject access request or a potential breach. Have one specific example ready that walks through your assessment steps, who you notified, and what you documented.
Negotiate with your certification and scope in mind
When discussing compensation, reference the number of data systems you've audited, the size of the user population you protected, or a recent credential. Concrete scope signals seniority better than years of experience alone.
Data Privacy Analyst Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most data privacy analysts?
Intuit, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and Meta are hiring the most data privacy analysts right now, with openings concentrated in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, large financial institutions, and technology companies with consumer-facing products tend to post the highest volume of these roles.
How many data privacy analyst jobs are remote?
About 78% of data privacy analyst openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the document-heavy and policy-focused nature of the work. Roles centered on privacy program management, policy drafting, and compliance advisory tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions requiring on-site audits or direct IT system access are more often in-person.
How do you become a data privacy analyst?
Start with a degree in information technology, law, business, or a related field, then build hands-on exposure to privacy regulations like GDPR or CCPA through coursework, internships, or a compliance-adjacent role. Earning a CIPP credential from the IAPP demonstrates formal domain knowledge. From there, target entry-level privacy coordinator or analyst positions that involve data mapping, policy review, or incident response to build a documented record of practical work.
Can you get a data privacy analyst job with little experience?
Yes, entry-level data privacy analyst roles exist, and employers often hire candidates who have completed IAPP coursework, have a legal or IT background, or have worked in a compliance-adjacent role like risk analysis or information security. Volunteering to support a data inventory or privacy policy review at a current employer, or completing a privacy-focused certification project, gives you concrete work to reference in interviews even without a dedicated privacy title.
What does the data privacy analyst interview process look like?
Most interview processes start with a recruiter screen focused on your regulatory background and certifications, followed by a technical or scenario-based round where you walk through how you would handle a data subject access request, a potential breach, or a privacy impact assessment. A final round typically involves a hiring manager or legal team member and may include a written exercise such as reviewing a draft privacy notice or a data processing agreement.
Where can I find and apply to data privacy analyst jobs?
You can find and apply to data privacy analyst jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your regulatory background, seniority level, and preferred industry, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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