Technical Project Manager III | Legal, Privacy & Compliance

Linda Werner & Associates
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Best suited to candidates with experience in legal and compliance project management working in technology organizations.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in managing legal, privacy, and compliance approvals in tech environments
    — “support critical legal, privacy, and compliance approval processes for a highly innovative technology organization”
  • Individuals skilled in navigating matrixed organizations and coordinating cross-functional teams
    — “navigate complex organizational structures to identify and engage appropriate subject matter experts”
  • Professionals who excel in documentation management and risk mitigation for regulatory compliance
    — “coordinate the collection, validation, and submission of technical documentation, supporting evidence”

Things to consider

  • This role requires a long-term commitment, as it is a 3+ month contract position
    — “Contract 3+ Month Position”
  • The candidate must be authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship
    — “Do you or will you in the future require any sponsorship to work in the US?”

How to stand out

  • Highlight prior experience managing multiple legal and compliance assessments simultaneously
    — “Lead multiple legal, privacy, and compliance assessment workstreams simultaneously”
  • Demonstrate expertise in coordinating across engineering and legal teams for approvals
    — “Partner closely with Legal, Privacy, Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, and Business Operations teams”
  • Showcase your ability to identify and resolve compliance gaps and launch blockers
    — “identify potential compliance gaps and launch blockers”
  • Emphasize your ability to prepare clear executive-level status updates and escalate risks
    — “Prepare clear, concise status updates outlining project progress, outstanding requirements”
  • Demonstrate your ability to streamline processes and improve documentation workflows
    — “Identify operational inefficiencies, documentation gaps, tooling challenges”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • managing multiple legal, privacy, and compliance approval processes
  • coordinating complex projects across multiple teams
  • identifying and resolving operational inefficiencies
Typical background
technical project managementprogram managementlegal compliance

Skills & requirements

Required

Project ManagementCross-functional CollaborationRisk ManagementLegal ComplianceTechnical Documentation

Preferred

Process ImprovementStakeholder Management

Stack & domain

Project ManagementProgram ManagementLegalPrivacyComplianceEngineeringData ScienceMarketingBusiness OperationsTechnical CoordinationProcess ImprovementKnowledge ManagementLeadershipCommunicationOrganizational SkillsProblem-solvingTeamworkCollaborationStakeholder Management

About the role

Original posting from Linda Werner & Associates via Greenhouse

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to support critical legal, privacy, and compliance approval processes for a highly innovative technology organization. This role offers an opportunity to work at the intersection of emerging technologies, business operations, engineering, and regulatory compliance.

The ideal candidate is a highly organized, proactive project manager who thrives in a fast paced environment, excels at navigating complex organizations, and can independently drive multiple approval workstreams toward completion under tight deadlines.

This is a highly collaborative, execution focused role requiring strong cross functional coordination, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to identify and resolve roadblocks while maintaining critical project timelines.

Key Responsibilities

Project & Program Management: Lead multiple legal, privacy, and compliance assessment workstreams simultaneously, ensuring approvals are completed within established timelines and aligned with critical business launches.

Cross Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Legal, Privacy, Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, and Business Operations teams to coordinate assessments, gather requirements, and facilitate approvals.

Risk & Compliance Coordination: Manage assessment intake, documentation, review cycles, and remediation activities while identifying potential compliance gaps and launch blockers.

Stakeholder Management: Navigate complex organizational structures to identify and engage appropriate subject matter experts, decision makers, and process owners.

Documentation & Evidence Management: Coordinate the collection, validation, and submission of technical documentation, supporting evidence, contractual materials, and third party agreements required for approvals.

Timeline & Deliverable Management: Establish priorities, track milestones, monitor dependencies, and proactively address risks that may impact critical deadlines.

Leadership Communication: Prepare clear, concise status updates outlining project progress, outstanding requirements, ownership, next steps, and potential risks. Escalate blockers with recommended solutions.

Technical Coordination: Facilitate discussions between technical teams and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, resolve outstanding questions, and accelerate approvals.

Process Improvement: Identify operational inefficiencies, documentation gaps, tooling challenges, and workflow bottlenecks. Recommend improvements to streamline future review and approval processes.

Knowledge Management: Maintain accurate records of approval scope, decisions, and supporting documentation to enable consistency and efficiency across future initiatives.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree.

5+ years of experience in technical project management, program management, or a closely related discipline.

Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent legal, privacy, regulatory, or compliance approval processes against fixed deadlines.

Strong experience coordinating complex projects across Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and business stakeholders.

Proven ability to gather, organize, validate, and manage documentation and evidence required for formal approval processes.

Experience navigating large, matrixed organizations and successfully engaging stakeholders across multiple teams.

Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, dependencies, and compressed timelines.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly in executive status reporting, risk identification, and blocker escalation.

Demonstrated ability to quickly learn unfamiliar internal systems, tools, and established review workflows.

Self directed, resourceful, and comfortable operating independently in a dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Salesforce Data Cloud.

Experience supporting B2B marketing platforms, marketing technology, or data integration initiatives.

Knowledge of data management, data governance, and data compliance processes.

Experience coordinating legal and privacy reviews involving technical systems, data integrations, and third party vendors.

Background supporting technology launches or initiatives requiring cross functional regulatory and compliance approvals.

Location: Remote - United States 

Role type: Contract 3+ Month Position 

Expected hours: 40 per week 

Benefits:

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Health savings account

Life insurance

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Vision insurance

Schedule:

8 hour shift

Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

Do you or will you in the future require any sponsorship to work in the US?

Language:

English  (Required)

Source: Linda Werner & Associates careers (Greenhouse)

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