in the competitive service, so long as the Director sets requirements, conducts recruitment, and determines appointments in a fair, transparent, and equitable manner. (2) Employees of the agency The Director is authorized to employ privacy experts, technologists, computer scientists, user experience designers and researchers, data scientists, ethicists, attorneys, investigators, economists, civil rights experts, and other employees as the Director considers necessary to conduct the business of the Agency. Unless otherwise provided expressly by law, any individual appointed under this section shall be an employee, as defined in section 2105 of title 5, United States Code, and subject to the provisions of such title and other laws generally applicable to the employees of an executive agency. (3) Employee compensation The Director may fix and adjust the pay and benefits of personnel as the Director considers desirable, competitive, transparent, and equitable, without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, respectively. (4) Labor-management relations Chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, shall apply to the Agency and the employees of the Agency. (b) Additional roles (1) Chief information officer (A) Designation of an agency cio Subchapter II of chapter 113 of subtitle III of title 40, United States Code, is amended— (i) in section 11315(c) by adding and of the Digital Privacy Agency before the em dash immediately preceding paragraph (1)