Job Description

AltspaceVR is the leading platform for live mixed reality experiences, offering cross-device live immersive virtual experiences using Microsoft’s Mixed Reality technologies (HoloLens, Holocapture, Azure Kinect) to emulate presence and connection, while building and fostering community. Our mission, to enable creators to easily produce, host and eventually monetize events successfully. Our goal, to enable the next level of social interaction and engagement between artists and audiences to keep people wanting to come back for more. 

Bringing people together from all over the world, the AltspaceVR platform has been the venue for countless live events, including virtual concerts, festivals, comedy shows, tech talks, LGBTQ meetups, meditation groups, dance parties, conferences and more. All our events are hosted by our community of creators, as well as celebrities and brands, including Burning Man, Diplo, Reggie Watts, NBC, Pitbull, Accenture, Rapsody, Baobab Studios, Mix Master Mike, and Bill Nye. Sitting at the intersection of experience, content and community, the AltspaceVR team is forging the future of virtual events.  

 

You are drawn to working on the latest and most innovative products in the world. You seek projects that will transform how people interact with technology. You have a drive to grow your skillset by finding unique challenges that have yet to be solved. This is an opportunity to be an innovator!  

 

The experiences and technologies that AltspaceVR will enable needs to meet or exceed users’ privacy, accessibility, ethics, and security expectations. To satisfy these needs, we are looking for a Compliance Program Manager who will partner with engineering teams that create products, services, applications, and platform functionality to promote transparency and achieve compliant solutions. 

Responsibilities

The individual filling this position will:

• Evangelize privacy, accessibility, ethics, and security principles including better integration in the development cycle.
• Conduct technical reviews for products, services, and communications; document reviews and ensure all relevant information is accounted for to help ensure compliance with audit-level requirements.
• Evaluate features, UI, and functionality to identify and mitigate any compliance-impacting concerns.
• Ensure products, services, and communications comply with corporate compliance standards, as well as other legal requirements.
• Partner as necessary with feature teams to develop customized solutions; engage with other compliance and legal teams as necessary.
• Identify and drive escalations to the compliance teams, CELA, and executive management as necessary.
  

We’re Looking For Someone With

• Deep knowledge and passion for end user trust and safety, and the ability to learn quickly and apply learnings throughout the organization.
• Ability to apply good judgement to risk assessment.
• Outstanding cross-group collaboration skills and proven ability to drive initiatives across organizations.
• Ability to develop and track quality measures, metrics, and/or KPIs.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to dive into technical details of features to deliver privacy requirements and innovations.
• A passion for deeply understanding customers.
  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ of experience in a regulatory or technical role (Program Manager, Software Engineer or related).
• 1+ years' of experience with privacy regulations and policies.
• 3+ years’ of experience effectively work across different product teams and orgs.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Privacy Certification (CIPP, CIPM, CIPT) preferred.
• Previous experience as part of a feature crew/team and ownership of functional specifications/plans preferred.
  

 

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.   

   

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