Data Privacy Director

Natera, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Natera, Inc. is seeking a Data Privacy Director to elevate and operationalize the enterprise privacy program across commercial, clinical, and product environments.

This leadership role combines regulatory analyses, privacy impact assessments, and contract reviews with a strong business-enablement orientation. You will partner with cross-functional teams to embed privacy throughout the data and product lifecycles.

Qualifications

• Leads privacy program initiatives and governance across business units
• Experience with regulatory analyses and risk-based recommendations
• Reviews contracts and legal engagements for privacy implications
• Translates privacy requirements into practical controls and patterns
• Operates as integration point between Privacy, Product, and Engineering
• Develops data governance frameworks for clinical and research use
• Embedded privacy principles into data ethics and governance processes

Responsibilities

• Lead privacy impact assessments and regulatory analyses with a risk-based approach
• Review contracts and legal engagements for privacy alignment and approvals
• Embed privacy-by-design into product and software development lifecycles
• Partner with engineering to implement practical privacy controls and reusable solutions
• Operate governance frameworks for data access, sharing, and secondary use
• Drive privacy integration with Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, and R&D
• Provide mentorship to privacy team members and external resources

Skills

Privacy leadership

Regulatory analysis

Privacy impact assessments

Contract/privacy reviews

Data governance

Privacy-by-design

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

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. This role reports to the Vice President, Data Privacy and partners with cross-functional teams to embed privacy principles throughout the lifecycle of data, technology, and innovation initiatives. The Director may also provide guidance and mentorship to privacy team members and external resources supporting the program.

The Director will also serve as a key integration point between Privacy and Product, embedding privacy-by-design into product and software development lifecycles and partnering with engineering to make privacy practical and scalable. In partnership with Medical Affairs, Clinical Operations, and Data Sciences (R&D), this leader will also enhance and maintain data governance frameworks that support clinical research initiatives and the responsible use of data for quality improvement and development activities. Together, these efforts will help strengthen Natera’s privacy program, building efficient, repeatable processes that expand team capacity while enabling responsible innovation and growth.

Regarding culture, we seek people who demonstrate Natera's values, enjoy challenging problems, empower others to thrive, lead by example, and adapt their playbook when necessary.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Privacy Program Enablement

• 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

Privacy Integration & Engineering

• 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

Data Use Governance & Decision Frameworks

• 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

Data Ethics & Responsible Data Use

• 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

Commercial & Clinical Data Ecosystem Governance

• 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