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.

• 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.

• 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:

• Inclusive family building

benefits

• 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.

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.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and

thrive. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether

they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants

without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual

orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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