Privacy Engineer

Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Superhuman

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Privacy Engineer to join our team. Our commitment to user trust is unwavering, and this new team member will play a crucial role in maintaining the trust of millions of users who rely on our products. You will work alongside our collaborative partners to identify and implement high-impact projects to ensure we have a solid privacy posture.

As a Privacy Engineer at Superhuman, you will:

  • Design and implement privacy-related features and architectures that ensure user privacy is preserved in product development across Superhuman's product ecosystem.

  • Build bridges between technical and non-technical teams by translating privacy requirements into actionable roadmaps aligned with business objectives.

  • Make risk-informed decisions that safeguard customer data while enabling Superhuman to move fast.

  • Review and analyze designs of systems and product features for privacy issues and optimizations.

  • Help shape the long-term privacy strategy, collaborating with Trust Engineering, Legal, Product, and other cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

  • Has a good understanding of general concepts around data privacy.

  • Is familiar with privacy concerns that apply in an industry setting, including consent, deletion, and retention, and a basic understanding of regulations such as GDPR.

  • Can review system designs and product feature specs for deviations from our privacy policies and suboptimal privacy choices.

  • Has a good grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures.

  • Is a great communicator and active listener.

  • Has strong analytical, diagnostics, and troubleshooting skills.

  • Has a proven ability to work in a multi-team environment and cross-functional setup.

  • Can write correct, concise, readable, and extendable code.

Compensation and Benefits

Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:​

  • Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)

  • Disability and life insurance options

  • 401(k) and RRSP matching

  • Paid parental leave

  • 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time

  • Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)

  • Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.

We encourage you to apply

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).