Senior Privacy Engineer, Asana
$189-267k
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Work management platform
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Work management platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$189-267k
Salary varies depending on location
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help humanity thrive by enabling the world's teams to work together effortlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 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 the job involves
- The Security team at Asana is responsible for protecting Asana’s employees, users, and customers. We build innovative safeguards to ensure that our data is protected against threats and that we comply with legal, regulatory, and customer requirements while collaborating closely with teams across the organization
- Reporting to Asana’s Head of Global Privacy, Data Protection, and Compliance, as a founding member of the Privacy Engineering team, you will shape how we build privacy into our products from the ground up—bridging the legal, regulatory, and technical dimensions of privacy across the company
- 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
Our take
Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. Acting as a unified hub, it empowers teams to effortlessly generate projects, delegate responsibilities, set deadlines, and foster direct task-related communication, transcending the inefficiencies of traditional email-based coordination.
Despite facing competition from established players like SmartSheet in its market, Asana has navigated its path, bolstered by a successful Initial Public Offering in 2020 and a track record of startup triumphs. This strategic prowess has propelled Asana to amass a robust clientele exceeding 100,000 organizations, boasting notable entities such as Uber and Air France among its ranks.
Since its inception, Asana has undergone exponential growth, with its reach extending to offices sprawled across four continents worldwide. This expansion not only underscores its global footprint but also signifies its commitment to fostering diverse talent pools and catering to a broad spectrum of clients.
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Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2020
$200m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $414.4m
Company benefits
- Benefits - From comprehensive health benefits including mental health programs and coaching to our in-house culinary program and supportive parental leave policies, our benefits are intentionally designed to ensure that you are energized, focused, and thriving
- Development: We know that growth isn’t always linear, so we’ll support you in achieving your personal and professional goals. You’ll have the opportunity to take on big responsibilities that impact our success as a company and challenge you in new and fulfilling ways.
- Career growth: Your growth at Asana centers on ownership, access, and choice. All employees can tap into resources that support their growth and their team’s growth in the way that works best for their unique needs.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dan Rogers
(CEO)Prior to joining Asana in 2025, Dan was the CEO of LaunchDarkly, a President at Rubrik, and the CMO at ServiceNow and Symantec.
Aziz Megji
(CFO)Aziz joined Asana in 2024 as the Head of Strategic Finance & IR, moving into the role of CFO in 2026. Previously, they worked at RingCentral as an SVP of Finance, at NVIDIA as a Senior Director of Corporate Development and at Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a VP of Corporate Development.
Arnab Bose
(CPO)Prior to joining Asana in 2025, Arnab spent 6 years at Okta, joining as an SVP of Product Management before moving into the role of CPO. They were also an Advisor at Codified and a VP of Product Management at Quip.
Prachi Gore
(CMO)Prior to joining Asana in 2025, Prachi spent nearly 6 years at Checkr as a VP then Senior VP of Marketing. They also spent nearly 4 years at Smart Recruiters as a VP of Demand Generation then Marketing.
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