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Onetrust, Atlanta, GA, United States
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.
The Challenge We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the strategic and technical direction of our AI platform that will power the future of OneTrust’s market‑leading platform. You’ll set strategic and technical goals for the team, hire engineers, and help prioritize projects. You'll be involved technically too, developing new products, identifying requirements, and ensuring excellence in execution.
Your Mission Set the strategic and technical vision.
Define how our AI platform evolves to support the needs of applications delivering AI agents and other capabilities. Drive implementation of common AI capabilities used across the entire suite of solutions.
Drive alignment between value and investment.
Prioritize initiatives that unlock measurable outcomes — improving customer impact, scalability, reliability and efficiency.
Lead through influence.
Partner with Product, Architecture, and executive leadership to align priorities, resource allocation, and platform evolution.
Unify the product ecosystem.
Ensure consistency and connectivity across AI capabilities so that each product contributes to a cohesive experience.
Develop Engineering leaders.
Mentor senior Engineers and Engineering Managers to think strategically, connect their domains to business outcomes, and lead with autonomy.
Drive adoption of the AI platform.
Communicate the vision, value, and roadmap across internal teams — linking AI platform innovation to real‑world impact.
You Are An experienced Engineering leader who has led end‑to‑end development activities while monitoring reliability and performance and guiding improvements when required. You will ensure compliance with security regulations while managing software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines.
Your Experience Includes Bachelor’s degree or greater in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
Minimum of 15+ years of engineering experience with a strong track record of successful development and delivery of complex, enterprise‑class software that results in material market impact
Proven success in delivering AI‑powered features, agents or other capabilities
Experience building cloud services
Proven critical thinking and advanced analytical skills and qualities
Systematic problem‑solving approach coupled with a deep sense of ownership and drive
System design and architecture experience
Building out onboarding and mentoring programs to teach and train other engineers to incubate individual and team growth
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington‐based candidates: the annual base pay range for this role is listed below. Within this range, individual pay is determined by several factors, including location, job‑related skills, work experience, and relevant education and/or training. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions, as well as benefits.
Salary Range
$194,100 — $291,150 USD
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
OneTrust Careers on YouTube
@LifeatOneTrust on Instagram
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.
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The Challenge We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the strategic and technical direction of our AI platform that will power the future of OneTrust’s market‑leading platform. You’ll set strategic and technical goals for the team, hire engineers, and help prioritize projects. You'll be involved technically too, developing new products, identifying requirements, and ensuring excellence in execution.
Your Mission Set the strategic and technical vision.
Define how our AI platform evolves to support the needs of applications delivering AI agents and other capabilities. Drive implementation of common AI capabilities used across the entire suite of solutions.
Drive alignment between value and investment.
Prioritize initiatives that unlock measurable outcomes — improving customer impact, scalability, reliability and efficiency.
Lead through influence.
Partner with Product, Architecture, and executive leadership to align priorities, resource allocation, and platform evolution.
Unify the product ecosystem.
Ensure consistency and connectivity across AI capabilities so that each product contributes to a cohesive experience.
Develop Engineering leaders.
Mentor senior Engineers and Engineering Managers to think strategically, connect their domains to business outcomes, and lead with autonomy.
Drive adoption of the AI platform.
Communicate the vision, value, and roadmap across internal teams — linking AI platform innovation to real‑world impact.
You Are An experienced Engineering leader who has led end‑to‑end development activities while monitoring reliability and performance and guiding improvements when required. You will ensure compliance with security regulations while managing software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines.
Your Experience Includes Bachelor’s degree or greater in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
Minimum of 15+ years of engineering experience with a strong track record of successful development and delivery of complex, enterprise‑class software that results in material market impact
Proven success in delivering AI‑powered features, agents or other capabilities
Experience building cloud services
Proven critical thinking and advanced analytical skills and qualities
Systematic problem‑solving approach coupled with a deep sense of ownership and drive
System design and architecture experience
Building out onboarding and mentoring programs to teach and train other engineers to incubate individual and team growth
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington‐based candidates: the annual base pay range for this role is listed below. Within this range, individual pay is determined by several factors, including location, job‑related skills, work experience, and relevant education and/or training. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions, as well as benefits.
Salary Range
$194,100 — $291,150 USD
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
OneTrust Careers on YouTube
@LifeatOneTrust on Instagram
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.
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