Summary

At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. It is one of our core values, and we design our products and services to protect it. You’ll be impacting the breadth of Apple’s ecosystem by analyzing requests to collect, store, and use data and applying techniques to minimize how much of people’s data Apple — or anyone else — can access. Working with some of the best engineers in the world, you’ll have a direct positive impact on the privacy of Apple’s products by evaluating how data will be used across Apple products, and partnering with engineering teams to apply privacy-preserving techniques.

Minimum Qualifications

Passion for privacy
Familiarity with and experience in applying privacy-preserving techniques
Knowledge of theories of privacy, privacy frameworks, and common privacy mitigation techniques
Experience evaluating privacy or security risks against established criteria or threat models
Familiarity with client-server architecture and common privacy risks and threat models

Preferred Qualifications

Capacity to digest and analyze technical information to identify gaps and provide recommendations
Ability to explain complex problems in a concise and objective manner
Good organization and time management skills to track multiple tasks and projects and drive them to completion
Talent for technical writing and an eye for process improvement
Familiarity with the principles and use of cryptographic primitives and protocols
Superb interpersonal skills to develop and maintain relationships across organizations
BS in computer science, engineering or related technical experience

Description

You’ll become part of an exceptional team focusing on privacy across Apple’s products and services. Partnering with Privacy Engineers and Legal partners, you’ll be working with a wide variety of teams. Your influence will be felt throughout Apple’s products and services, such as the iPhone, Mac, Watch, Health, Siri, iCloud, and Apple Music. You will be directly involved in building great features with strong privacy protections for multiple products and services. You will analyze analytics requests, schemas, and user studies against established privacy guidance and policies. You will identify and effectively communicate (both written and verbal) privacy risk as well as suggest mitigations and privacy techniques to minimize data collected. Additionally, you will contribute to policy guidance and drive efficiency in our processes. This position requires someone with strong technical strengths and a passionate desire to protect people’s privacy by providing insightful analysis of the privacy risks of data collection, and proposing mitigations to reduce or eliminate those risks while still shipping great products. A few responsibilities: * Analyze requests to collect, store, and use people’s data against established guidance and policies, including reviews of data schema, architecture, sandboxes, and user studies * Identify and communicate privacy risk to privacy engineers, legal, and leadership with your recommendations * Apply privacy principles and advocate for privacy-preserving methods while communicating with internal stakeholders * Partner with Privacy Engineering and Legal to develop domain-specific criteria for reviewing requests * Write and follow clear documentation so that our work can be accountable, repeated, predictable, measured, and improved * Identify gaps and drive improvements to Apple’s privacy policies and processes * Work with affiliated engineering teams to test and improve tooling used for data collection across the company

Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $92,500 and $178,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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Privacy Analyst

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