Senior Manager, Privacy Engineering

The Team

Upstart’s Privacy Engineering team builds the systems, controls, and practices that help protect borrower, applicant, partner, and Upstarter data across our products and platforms. The team works across Engineering, Security, Legal, Compliance, Product, Data, and Machine Learning to embed privacy-by-design into how Upstart builds, uses, retains, and governs data. As the Senior Manager, Privacy Engineering at Upstart, you will lead the team responsible for building scalable privacy infrastructure and technical privacy controls across Upstart’s AI lending marketplace. You will set the team’s roadmap, grow and support privacy engineers, and help translate privacy and regulatory requirements into durable engineering systems.

How you’ll make an impact

• Lead the Privacy Engineering team’s strategy, roadmap, and execution across privacy infrastructure, data governance, and privacy-by-design initiatives
• Hire, coach, and develop a team of privacy engineers while establishing clear operating rhythms, priorities, and technical standards
• Guide the design and delivery of scalable privacy controls, including data discovery, classification, access controls, audit logging, retention, deletion, lineage, encryption, and key management
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, Security, Product, Data, Machine Learning, and Infrastructure teams to translate privacy requirements into practical technical solutions
• Oversee privacy reviews, technical risk assessments, and threat modeling for new products, data flows, models, and platform capabilities
• Define metrics and communicate progress, tradeoffs, dependencies, and risks to technical and cross-functional stakeholder

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, and 8+ years of experience in engineering, including at least 3 years of direct people management experience
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for production software, platform, privacy, security, or data systems
• Experience designing, building, or operating privacy, security, data governance, or data platform capabilities