Program Manager - Privacy & Cookie Consent

Program Manager - Privacy & Cookie Consent

Pay: $70-72 / hourly as W2, full benefits offered

Remote: EST hours required - fully remote

Length of assignment: Ongoing, possibility to convert to full time at some point in 2025 or 2026

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $70-72 / hourly as a W2 employee.

Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location. Additional benefits offered may include; medical health insurance and dental insurance, life insurance, and eligibility to participate in a 401k plan with company match.

*Candidates should live in CST or EST time zones*

Keys for this role:

One of the major needs for this Program role, will be to drive the design and implementation for multiple digital needs, including websites (10 ) and mobile apps (3 )

• Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional (consent banner) implementation projects
• Great communication skills with all stakeholders across the organization
• hands-on experience configuring consent banners (including banner template, geolocation rules, cookie scan categorization)
• Someone who can lead/drive product development will do best in this role. Someone that can effectively partner with design/development teams, legal, compliance and upper management, ensuring all work well together.
• Someone able to drive discussions, and update all stakeholders (mainly designers/developers) will do well in this role.
• Previous OneTrust (CMP) experience is needed

Role Summary:

As a member of the Performance Marketing Center of Excellence within a large Financial Marketing organization, this 'Product Manager, Consent and Preference', serves as the preference center platform expert on various phases of consent-related projects within the Database Marketing organization, including web and mobile applications.

A good deal of the role will be responsible for support in Cookie consent, for 10 websites. Most of the work is partnering with internal colleagues across the organization (development / design / user architecture / legal / compliance / marketing) as well as partnering with one main vendor that supports this team.

Someone with Preference and Consent experience, ideally with a Financial organization is desired.

Experience working with these vendors in previous roles is ideal:

OneTrust: https://www.onetrust.com/

Dynamic Yield: https://www.dynamicyield.com/

Tealium: https://tealium.com/

As part of the Database Marketing team, this role will support Preference Center leadership in effectively developing and managing consent initiatives and associated activities, including stakeholder experience and preference engagement.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Act as the consent product lead. Understand business needs and requirements, and be able to translate into platform architecture and ultimately deliver across various stakeholder properties.
• Manage day-to-day build and run activities for consent-related activities
• Work cross-functionally with internal and external partners to lead all product lifecycle activities
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as required

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree OR in lieu of degree, high school diploma/GED and 5 years of computer science, engineering or information technology experience
• 5 years of professional work experience, including:
• 3 years’ experience in software development, or solution engineering
• 3 years’ experience in Agile methodologies and processes
• 3 years’ experience as web product manager or similar role, setting priorities, developing business requirements and managing associated work streams

Desired Characteristics:

• Hands-on experience within Preference Management platforms and tools, managing consent, privacy and marketing preference platforms highly desired
• Strong understanding of the Consent & Privacy landscape, including legal and regulatory policies, tools and platforms, and customer choice strategies.
• Experience working with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python
• Demonstrated understanding and command of customer-facing platforms, applications or technologies
• Broad experience working with internal cross-functional partners (i.e., IT, Enterprise Operations) to ensure alignment of priorities and requirements
• Proven experience synthesizing insights from structured analyses to inform business decisions and communicating with stakeholders in an effective manner
• Strong skill in project management, communications, multi-tasking, ability to work independently, and relationship management are keys to success
• Experience working directly with technology suppliers to oversee improvements, troubleshoot and governance
• Highly motivated, assertive self-starter with the ability to work autonomously or as a strong team participant
• Experienced with consumer financial services, ideally with exposure to credit card marketing or retail marketing, and familiar with consumer protection, privacy and related laws and policies.

About Aquent:

Aquent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.

Our eligible talent has access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium.

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.