Regulatory Readiness Program Manager
Job Summary
Job Description
The Regulatory Readiness Program Manager at Meta leads the coordination of responses to laws, regulations, and external pressures impacting Meta's businesses, particularly concerning privacy and data practices. This role demands close collaboration with product teams, legal, policy, and operations to identify and mitigate risks. Responsibilities include defining requirements, developing response strategies, conducting gap analyses, mentoring junior Program Managers, improving team processes, identifying conflicting requirements, and scaling team capacity. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership, stakeholder management, technical expertise, and operational excellence skills, thriving in ambiguous environments and tackling complex problems. The role involves working with executive leadership on company priorities.
Must have:
- 10+ years experience in relevant fields
- 4+ years in product environment & cross-functional stakeholder management
- 4+ years in privacy or data protection
- Proven project management and problem-solving skills
- Solution-oriented approach with competing perspectives
Good to have:
- Project Management Certification
- Knowledge of global privacy requirements for tech companies
5 skills required
Job Details
The Regulatory Readiness Obligation Management team works across regulatory domains (e.g. Privacy, Integrity, Security) and partners closely with Legal, Policy, Operations, and Product to understand and respond to key external pressures that could impact Meta's businesses. We work with our partners to develop and scale Meta’s end-to-end Regulatory Readiness program. The Regulatory Readiness Program Manager supporting a given regulatory area is central to ensuring Product is able to identify how external pressures may impact current and/or future product plans.
This role is suitable for those seeking to work closely with product teams on a daily basis, and for those seeking to more deeply understand how regulatory, competitive, and legal matters relate to Meta's data practices and product offerings. As this is a highly visible role that requires leadership, excellent stakeholder management, technical know-how, and operational excellence, the successful candidate should thrive in ambiguous, cross-functional environments and have a desire to solve big, hard problems.
This role will work with leadership including executives at the company, on some of the biggest priorities for the company.
Regulatory Readiness Program Manager Responsibilities
- Lead coordination of Meta’s response to laws, regulations, and other external pressures related to privacy, data practices, and other regulatory risks.
- Work across a broad range of partners to define requirements, develop and align on a response strategy to key external pressures that could impact Meta’s business.
- Ensure Product is aware of external pressures identified by Legal, Policy, and teams working forecasting and analysis of the competitive landscape.
- Lead gap analyses that allow Product teams to more easily identify deltas between new regulations and existing product and/or strategic positions.
- Mentor and guide other Program Managers in supporting new types of regulatory requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve process and collaboration between teams working on regulatory responses–especially opportunities for alignment between Regulatory Readiness Program Managers.
- Identify conflicting requirements and initiatives being worked on by the teams focused on different risk domains (e.g. Privacy, Content Integrity, Security, etc.).
- Scale the capacity of the Regulatory Readiness team through process optimization,training and mentoring others, and .
- Drive progress on priority work-streams and deliverables and help build decision-making frameworks.
- Prepare communication materials and progress tracking for multiple audiences, including executive company leadership.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in strategy, management consulting, business operations, program management, regulatory operations, or other operational discipline.
- 4+ years of experience working within a product environment and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, including legal, policy and product functions
- 4+ years of experience working on privacy OR in a role associated with data protection, regulatory response, operational risk management, compliance, audit and implementation of control frameworks, or information security.
- Proven project management, problem solving, time-management and organizational skills, and the experience to set strategic priorities combined with a demonstrated history of delivering operational results.
- Demonstrated experience orienting towards solutions in the context of competing perspectives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Project Management / Program Management Certification(s)
- Demonstrated knowledge of the applicability of privacy requirements (e.g. Privacy, Integrity, Security)to a global tech company, and experience evaluating products or processes to ensure compliance with applicable requirements
Locations
Data Center
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
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