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.

Qualifications:

15+ years of product operations, program management, compliance, or IT experience 15+ years of experience delivering technical programs or products from inception to delivery across organizations Experience managing and developing teams, including managing managers or senior individual contributors Demonstrated experience managing relationships with external auditors, independent assessors, or regulators, including owning information requests and presenting directly to external parties Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related discipline or equivalent practical experience Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable compliance operations Experience influencing stakeholders and engineers Proven track record of delivering organizational transformational change Design-thinking process improvement experience, leveraging creativity and structure to solve complex problems while putting the user first Experience working in a technical environment Cross-group collaboration experience Experience in end-to-end lifecycle creation and management Familiarity with various privacy and data protection legislation Experience delivering assessments, evidence, or reporting against an external regulatory order, assessor, or certification regime Experience operating under a consent order, regulatory settlement, or similar sustained external oversight regime Experience managing a formal regulatory examination or independent third-party assessment cycle end-to-end Prior experience in an external audit, assessment, or regulatory role (e.g. Big 4, supervisory authority) Experience building compliance or risk assessment capability for AI systems Relevant certifications (CIPP, CIPM, CIPT, CRISC, CISA)