Privacy, Data Protection and Compliance Intern

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

What It Means to Be a Consultant at Crowe
Consulting is a dynamic business focused on solving problems for our clients and serving our core markets through innovative solutions. As technology and AI continue to reshape the consulting landscape, we are looking for individuals who are curious, adaptable, and eager to learn. At Crowe, consultants are expected to build both technical and transferable skills, think critically, and use technology to solve real business problems. In this role, you will continuously learn, collaborate across teams, and explore how tools, including emerging AI capabilities, can improve efficiency, insights, and client outcomes.

As you grow, you’ll also begin to take ownership of client relationships, contribute to account strategy, and support the delivery of high-impact work. Developing a sense of account leadership, including understanding client needs, ensuring delivery excellence, and building trusted partnerships, is part of what sets successful consultants apart.

Success in this role comes from a growth mindset, strong communication skills, advanced critical thinking, and the ability to navigate new challenges with confidence.

As a Privacy, Data Protection and Compliance team member in Crowe’s Consulting Practice, your role will be focused on helping clients operationalize privacy programs by conducting privacy assessments and implementing privacy technology platforms and solutions for consumer requests, personal data inventories, consent collection and notification, and third-party privacy reviews. At Crowe, we empower you to take risks, to challenge yourself in specialized areas of consulting & technology, and to generate solutions that impact the firm and your professional growth. Crowe cultivates a creative company culture where you will have the opportunity to share your ideas and knowledge with clients from your very first day with the firm.  

  

You will assist with the assessment, development, implementation, support, and delivery of our risk-based privacy solutions for our clients. You will have an opportunity to play a key role in building new privacy solutions in a dynamic regulatory environment. You will help clients map data flows and business processes and execute program initiatives to ensure that privacy controls and processes are documented, adopted, and implemented to promote compliance with privacy laws and regulations, policies, and procedures. You will assist with the development of processes for responding to consumer privacy requests and the implementation of privacy software to handle the various requests. You will assist with drafting policies, processes, and other documentation (e.g., checklists, guidelines, FAQs) to comply with relevant privacy regulations and frameworks and according to operational needs. You may help implement common privacy control frameworks or regulatory frameworks (e.g.,. ISO 27701, CCPA, GDPR, LGPD, and others) to enhance client data protection programs. You will assist with documentation and review of privacy related third-party relationships and data flows. You may assist with establishing and handling processes and tools for documenting and tracking compliance and assist with privacy and data protection internal audit programs.  

    

Expectations:  

• Employ robust business writing skills to effectively develop and present deliverables.  

• Exhibit strong communication skills when consulting with senior management, C-Suite client personnel, and government regulators.    

• Exhibit strong critical thinking skills to solve complex problems and generate solutions.  

• Desire to work in a fast-paced learning environment.  

• Adapt to continuously changing risk environments and effectively manage time.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity to enable a deeply specialized skill set.  

• Cultivate and enable strong relationships within your clients and community.  

• Strong ability to learn new skills quickly and the desire to have a career where you are continuously learning  

• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to think in a systematic, analytical fashion   

• Self-motivated to deliver quality results, take responsibility and grow  

• Learn and work well both in teams and independently   

• Capable of working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment  

• Entrepreneurial spirit  

• Willingness to travel up to 60%  

   

Education:   

Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in one of the following preferred majors (or comparable major). Business Administration  

• Privacy and risk management  

• Computer Science  

• Data Management/Data Analytics  

• Information Security  

• Systems Engineering  

• Information Technology or Information Systems  

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $27.00 - $42.00 per hour.

Our Benefits:
Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:
Crowe provides professional services through two separate entities: Crowe LLP delivers audit and attest services, and Crowe Advisory LLC provides tax, advisory, consulting, and other nonattest services.

The Crowe Global network consists of more than 300 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 150 countries around the globe, making it one of the largest accounting networks in the world.* As independent members of Crowe Global, Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC serve clients worldwide.

*As of July 2026.

Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) 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, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.

Crowe will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.

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We are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination.

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