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Data Privacy Director

Natera· Legal
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Hybrid (Remote USA)$170k - $240kfull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Leadership role responsible for enabling and integrating the enterprise privacy program across commercial, clinical, and product environments, with privacy-by-design embedded into product lifecycles and governance frameworks for data use and ethics.

Responsibilities

  • Lead privacy impact assessments, regulatory analyses, and risk-based recommendations that balance compliance with business enablement
  • Conduct privacy reviews of contracts and legal engagements, drafting recommendations for counsel review, alignment, and approval
  • Apply a risk-based lens to enable business decisions
  • Build efficient, repeatable processes and tooling that scale program capacity within a resource-constrained team
  • Provide direction and mentorship to team members and external resources as the program scales
  • Serve as the integration point between Privacy and Product/Engineering, embedding privacy-by-design into product and software development lifecycles
  • Partner with technical teams to translate privacy requirements into practical controls, patterns, and reusable technical solutions
  • Support privacy engineering practices that operationalize compliance without slowing delivery
  • Implement standardized, risk-based frameworks for data access, sharing, secondary use, and commercial/partnership data usage
  • Drive consistency in how data use decisions are evaluated, approved, and documented across the organization
  • Operationalize guardrails for use of sensitive and regulated data, AI/ML training data, and advanced analytics
  • Embed ethical considerations into governance processes and decision-making
  • Govern data flows and usage across marketing/advertising technologies, commercial partnerships, and third-party data sharing
  • Serve as the embedded privacy partner for Medical Affairs and Clinical Operations, advising on privacy requirements for clinical research protocols, clinical trials, real-world evidence studies, and secondary use of clinical data
  • Collaborate with Clinical Operations to ensure data flows and consent frameworks align with applicable regulations (HIPAA, IRB requirements, GCP) and internal governance standards
  • Support privacy for clinical research, clinical trials, and secondary research use of data
  • Enable business teams to leverage data responsibly while minimizing regulatory and reputational risk

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (e.g., law/legal studies, information systems, business administration, data analytics); IAPP certification highly preferred (e.g., CIPP, CIPT, AGCP)
  • 8-10 years of experience in privacy, data governance, compliance, or related disciplines, with increasing leadership responsibility
  • Strong expertise in global privacy regulations (HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, etc.)
  • Experience embedding privacy into product and software development lifecycles (privacy-by-design, privacy engineering)
  • Experience supporting clinical research or clinical trials from a privacy perspective, including working directly with Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, or similar teams
  • Familiarity with IRB processes, informed consent frameworks, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) as they relate to data privacy
  • General healthcare compliance background (e.g., fraud, waste & abuse, Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Sunshine Act)
  • Experience working across commercial, clinical, and product/technology environments
  • Familiarity with AI/ML and advanced analytics governance concepts as they relate to data use and ethics
  • Proven ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, scalable processes
  • Strong ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across functions
  • Experience leading, mentoring, or managing privacy professionals or cross-functional teams
  • Experience with program management and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Google Workspace)

Skills

Required:Privacy impact assessmentsRegulatory analysisPrivacy-by-designPrivacy engineeringData governance

Benefits

  • Competitive Benefits - medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and dependents
  • Free testing for employees and immediate families, fertility care benefits
  • Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
  • 401k benefits, commuter benefits
  • Generous employee referral program
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Natera

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