Data Privacy Director

Natera

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About The Position

Natera is seeking a Data Privacy Director to advance and operationalize its enterprise privacy program across commercial, clinical, and product environments. This hands-on leadership role supports privacy impact assessments, regulatory analysis, and contract and legal privacy reviews, with an emphasis on enabling business decisions through practical, risk-based guidance. The Director partners with cross-functional teams to embed privacy principles throughout the lifecycle of data, technology, and innovation initiatives, and may guide and mentor privacy team members and external resources.

The Director serves as a key integration point between Privacy and Product/Engineering, embedding privacy-by-design into product and software development lifecycles and helping make privacy practices practical and scalable. In partnership with Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, and Data Sciences (R&D), the role enhances and maintains data governance frameworks for clinical research and responsible data use in quality improvement and development activities. The position also builds repeatable processes to expand program capacity while enabling responsible innovation and growth.

Natera describes itself as a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, focused on oncology, women’s health, and organ health. The company seeks candidates who demonstrate its values, enjoy challenging problems, empower others, lead by example, and adapt their approach when necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, such as law/legal studies, information systems, business administration, or data analytics.
• Eight to ten years of experience in privacy, data governance, compliance, or related disciplines, with increasing leadership responsibility.
• Strong expertise in global privacy regulations, including HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA/CPRA.
• Experience embedding privacy into product and software development lifecycles, including privacy-by-design and privacy engineering.
• Experience supporting clinical research or clinical trials from a privacy perspective, including direct work 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, such as fraud, waste and abuse, Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, or 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.
• 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, such as JIRA and Google Workspace.

Nice To Haves

• IAPP certification highly preferred, such as CIPP, CIPT, or AGCP.

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 to scale program capacity within a resource-constrained team.
• Provide direction and mentorship to team members and external resources as the program scales.
• Embed privacy-by-design into product and software development lifecycles as the integration point between Privacy and Product/Engineering.
• 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 or partnership data usage.
• Drive consistency in how data-use decisions are evaluated, approved, and documented across the organization.
• Operationalize guardrails for 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 and 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 align data flows and consent frameworks with applicable regulations, IRB requirements, GCP guidelines, 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
• Free testing for Natera employees and their immediate families.
• Fertility care benefits.
• Pregnancy and baby bonding leave.
• 401k benefits.
• Commuter benefits.
• Employee referral program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director