Customer Success Engineer - Privacy Automation (AMER)

OneTrust
Bengaluru, India
On-siteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Best suited to technically proficient individuals with customer-facing experience working in privacy automation and data governance domains.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in privacy automation or data governance platforms and a background in customer success or support engineering
    — “Prior experience as a OneTrust Implementation Consultant or Support Engineer, or in a customer-facing role involving direct OneTrust platform usage.”
  • Professionals who excel in translating complex technical challenges into clear, actionable guidance for clients
    — “Translate customer challenges into actionable guidance, empowering users to configure, troubleshoot, and move forward confidently.”
  • Individuals who thrive in a hybrid work environment and can manage multiple customer engagements simultaneously
    — “Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time across multiple engagements.”

Things to consider

  • The role requires in-office presence for three days a week despite flexible working hours
    — “encouraging three days a week in office for most roles”
  • Candidates without OneTrust experience must prove quick ramp-up capabilities on comparable platforms
    — “Candidates without OneTrust experience must demonstrate expertise in a comparable platform... with proven ability to ramp quickly.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to simplify complex technical topics for customers in your resume and interviews
    — “Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to simplify complex topics.”
  • Showcase your experience in creating scalable, reusable enablement content like knowledgebase articles or tutorials
    — “Create and maintain scalable enablement assets that reflect common patterns seen in customer engagements.”
  • Emphasize your cross-functional collaboration experience with teams like support and product
    — “Partner with TAs, Support, Product, and Enablement teams to relay customer insights and improve internal processes.”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • deliver 1:1 “Ask the Expert” sessions
  • resolve issues, clarify product behavior, and answer “how-to” questions
  • empower users to configure, troubleshoot, and move forward confidently
  • build trusted working relationships with customer users and administrators
  • partner with TAs, Support, Product, and Enablement teams
Typical background
experience in a technical customer-facing role such as Customer Success, Support Engineering, Professional Services, or Solutions Consultingfamiliarity with cloud-based software platforms and enterprise SaaS

Skills & requirements

Required

Technical ExpertiseCommunication SkillsProduct KnowledgeCustomer-first MindsetTroubleshootingConfiguration SupportKnowledgebase ArticlesBlog PostsVideo TutorialsCustomer InsightsInternal ProcessesCloud-based Software PlatformsEnterprise Saas

Preferred

Onetrust Implementation ConsultantSupport EngineerCustomer-facing RoleComparable Platform ExpertiseQuick Ramp-up

Stack & domain

Privacy AutomationData & AI GovernanceCloud-based Software PlatformsEnterprise SaasCommunication SkillsProblem-solving SkillsCustomer-first MindsetEmpathyCustomer SuccessTechnical Support

About the role

Original posting from OneTrust via Greenhouse

Strength in Trust 

OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society. 

Location: Bengaluru | Hybrid

Working Hours: 5:30 PM – 2:30 AM IST (AMER)

Experience: 3 - 5 years preferred

As a Technical Engineer - Privacy Automation (AMER timezone) at OneTrust, you will be a key enabler of customer success by helping users overcome product-related challenges through focused, high-quality “Ask the Expert” sessions. These 1–2 hour sessions provide hands-on troubleshooting, guidance, and configuration support to customers across our platform. Your role is to help unblock customers and empower them with the knowledge and confidence to effectively use OneTrust to meet their operational needs.

You will bring product expertise, strong communication skills, and a calm, customer-first mindset to every interaction. While this role is primarily reactive and tactical in nature, it plays a critical role in ensuring positive customer outcomes. In addition to delivering sessions, CSEs contribute reusable content such as knowledgebase articles, blog posts, and video tutorials to support scalable enablement.

This position is an ideal stepping stone for those looking to grow into more strategic, consultative roles within the Customer Success Architecture team.

Your Mission

Deliver 1:1 “Ask the Expert” sessions with customers focused on resolving issues, clarifying product behavior, and answering “how-to” questions across one or more OneTrust solution domains - Privacy Automation and/or Data & AI governance modules.

Translate customer challenges into actionable guidance, empowering users to configure, troubleshoot, and move forward confidently.

Stay calm and professional under pressure, especially when working with frustrated or time-sensitive customers.

Build trusted working relationships with customer users and administrators through empathy, product knowledge, and clear communication.

Partner with TAs, Support, Product, and Enablement teams to relay customer insights and improve internal processes.

Create and maintain scalable enablement assets that reflect common patterns seen in customer engagements.

Preferred Background

Prior experience as a OneTrust Implementation Consultant or Support Engineer, or in a customer-facing role involving direct OneTrust platform usage.

Candidates without OneTrust experience must demonstrate expertise in a comparable platform (e.g., GRC, privacy, data governance, consent management) with proven ability to ramp quickly.

Qualifications

Experience

Experience in a technical customer-facing role such as Customer Success, Support Engineering, Professional Services, or Solutions Consulting.

Familiarity with cloud-based software platforms and enterprise SaaS workflows.

Skills & Attributes

Strong product troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to simplify complex topics.

Customer-first mindset with high emotional intelligence and empathy.

Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time across multiple engagements.

Comfortable collaborating cross-functionally with CSAs, Support, and Product teams.

Growth Path

This role offers the opportunity to deepen your product and customer engagement expertise on the path toward more strategic positions within the Technical Advisory team, such as Technical Architects.

Where we Work

We are embracing an office-first culture, encouraging three days a week in office for most roles, with meaningful opportunities to collaborate and celebrate in person.

Each role may have specific requirements or flexibility depending on the scope of the position, so we encourage you to verify this with your recruiter during your first interview.

Benefits

As an employee at OneTrust, you will be part of the OneTeam. That means you’ll receive support physically, mentally, and emotionally so that you can do your best work both in and out of the office. This includes comprehensive healthcare coverage, flexible PTO, equity RSUs, annual performance bonus opportunities, retirement account support, 14+ weeks of paid parental leave, career development opportunities, company-paid privacy certification exam fees, and much more. Specific benefits differ by country. For more information, talk to your recruiter or visit onetrust.com/careers.

Resources  

Check out the following to learn more about OneTrust and its people: 

OneTrust Careers on YouTube

@LifeatOneTrust on Instagram

Your Data

You have the right to have your personal data updated or removed. You also have the right to have a copy of the information OneTrust holds about you. Further details about these rights are available on the website in our Privacy Overview. You can change your mind at any time and have your personal data removed from our database. In order to do this you must contact us and let us know you wish to be removed. The request should be made on the Data Subject Request Form.

Recruitment fraud warning: OneTrust is aware of scams involving false offers of employment with our company. The fraudulent jobs, interviews and job offers use fake websites, email addresses, group chat and text messages. Be aware that we never ask candidates for personal information, IDs or bank information during the interview process. We do not interview prospective candidates via instant message or group chat, and do not require candidates to purchase products or services, or process payments on our behalf as a condition of any employment offer. Please note that any legitimate interview availability requests will come directly from a OneTrust recruiter with an "@onetrust.com" email address. You may also receive legitimate emails from "@us.greenhouse-mail.io". Recruiters will only reach out to candidates who have applied for a role through our ATS (Greenhouse) or prospects via LinkedIn InMail. Job offers will come from a recruiter and may have a "@docusign.net" email address. For more information or if you have been targeted please reach out to askrecruiting@onetrust.com.

Our Commitment to You 

When you join OneTrust you are stepping onto a launching pad — the countdown has begun. The destination? A career without boundaries working alongside a diverse and inclusive crew who is passionate about doing meaningful work. As a pioneer, your voice and expertise will help chart the direction of an entirely new category. Our commitment to putting people first starts with you. Your growth is part of the mission. Our goal is to give you the power to embark on the next phase of your uniquely, unique career. 

OneTrust provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.

Source: OneTrust careers (Greenhouse)

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