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Who Governs Data in the AI Era? A Computational Analysis of the U.S. Privacy Workforce in Job Postings

Ramazan Yener·Muhammad Hassan·Masooda Bashir
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Privacy protection now spans legal, technical, and managerial duties, and demand for privacy professionals is growing across sectors. However, little is known about how employers define these roles. We analyze 1,143 U.S. privacy job postings from LinkedIn and Indeed. We examine job titles, salaries, competencies, certifications, education, experience, regulatory references, and AI-related language by using rule-based text mining. We also apply Topic Modeling (BERTopic) to the same postings and identify 18 latent themes which we grouped them into four categories. Our findings show that privacy roles are hybrid and they combine legal knowledge, technical skills, and interpersonal competence. Artificial intelligence appears in more than half of postings, with AI language spread across compliance, legal, governance and security themes. Our research indicates that AI governance responsibilities are often embedded within existing privacy roles, contributing to the rise of hybrid positions alongside dedicated AI governance roles.

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Ramazan Yener, Muhammad Hassan, Masooda Bashir. 2026-09-25. Who Governs Data in the AI Era? A Computational Analysis of the U.S. Privacy Workforce in Job Postings. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32030

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