Natera
Data Privacy Director
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About the role
- Natera is seeking a Data Privacy Director to help advance and operationalize the enterprise privacy program across our commercial, clinical, and product environments.
- This is a broad, hands-on leadership role supporting the full range of the Privacy team's work - from privacy impact assessments and regulatory analysis to contract and legal privacy-focused reviews - with a strong business-enablement orientation.
- The Director may also provide guidance and mentorship to privacy team members and external resources supporting the program.
Responsibilities
- Lead privacy impact assessments, regulatory analyses, and risk-based recommendations that balance compliance with business enablement
- Build efficient, repeatable processes and tooling that scale program capacity within a resource-constrained team
- 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
Requirements
- 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.)
- Familiarity with IRB processes, informed consent frameworks, and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) as they relate to data privacy
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- General healthcare compliance background (e.g., fraud, waste & abuse, Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, Sunshine Act)
- A systems thinker who connects fragmented processes into cohesive, scalable solutions
Nice to have
- 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)
Compensation
- The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific of
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