Senior Data Privacy Analyst

Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re all about propelling the next generation of leaders forward. We are driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future. We deliver innovative solutions that make our customers’ lives easier—helping them power, protect, and intelligently manage their homes and businesses. To do this, we need creative and talented people to join our company.

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Position Overview

NRG is seeking a Privacy Analyst to partner closely with multiple levels of the business to enhance our dynamic and constantly evolving privacy program. You will help build privacy-by-design processes, identify and address gaps, and lead privacy risk assessments in concert with legal counsel and technical staff. This is a unique opportunity that will allow you to interact with a diverse cross-section of our company. You will be expected to build upon our legacy of thoughtful and privacy-conscious innovation.

 

This position is ideal for an individual seeking to leverage their experience in privacy, is inquisitive, and excited about our vision to enable NRG to power a dynamic future in smart energy through transparent, ethical, and innovative uses of personal data. We are passionate about data privacy, and the right candidate for this role should be too!

 

Essential Responsibilities

• Conducts data privacy impact assessments, audits, and analyses and identifies areas requiring privacy-related improvements in product and service development and business operations and enhancements to achieve privacy goals.
• Matures the NRG Privacy Office working with technology solutions/tools to scale the privacy program’s strategic and tactical operations.
• Monitors and evaluates evolving privacy laws, rules, regulations, and industry best practices to help maintain program compliance, differentiation, and strategic alignment.
• Partners with the brands and departments to centralize NRG’s privacy-by-design principles and processes.
• Assists in leading dynamic cross-functional efforts that ensure NRG maintains industry-leading practices in protecting personal data.
• Collaborates with product and engineering teams to draft and implement privacy controls for use by the brands throughout the product or service life cycle.
• Promotes privacy best practices for customer, employee, partner, and vendor privacy.
• Assists in responding to internal and external privacy related inquiries and investigations, as well as provide support for privacy defensibility and readiness.
• Works with Data Governance to enhance our data lake by meticulous data mapping and data inventorying.
• Interacts with Cybersecurity on data retention/destruction and records management program and to implement privacy-related controls and improve privacy incident management.
• Coordinates privacy training and awareness activities including work with privacy champions group, special projects, and privacy initiatives across the enterprise.
• Uses strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills and ability to organize and prioritize work and meet deadlines.

 

Qualifications

Minimum

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in privacy/compliance
• Undergraduate or graduate degree in compliance or technology-related field
• Familiarity with OneTrust (or similar privacy platform solution)
• Experience in data mapping, data governance, and/or data inventory
• Knowledge of general privacy policies, procedures, and best practices
• Excellent analytical and research skills
• Knowledge of data technology and use of basic analytics tools and dashboards
• Experience with MSFT Office 365 and related tools (e.g., Excel, PPT, Word)
• Strong written and verbal communications and influencing skills
• Proven history of success working with both technical product and engineering and compliance
• Collaborative team player with sense of humor and ability to self-motivate and execute on independent projects.

 

Preferred

• Legal or master’s degree in compliance or technology-related field