<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>JOB SUMMARY:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Natera is seeking a <strong>Data Privacy Director</strong> 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><strong>Privacy Program Enablement</strong></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead privacy impact assessments, regulatory analyses, and risk-based recommendations that balance compliance with business enablement</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Conduct privacy reviews of contracts and legal engagements, drafting recommendations for counsel review, alignment, and approval</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Apply a risk-based lens to enable business decisions</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Build efficient, repeatable processes and tooling that scale program capacity within a resource-constrained team</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Provide direction and mentorship to team members and external resources as the program scales</span></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><strong>Privacy Integration & Engineering</strong></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Serve as the integration point between Privacy and Product/Engineering, embedding privacy-by-design into product and software development lifecycles</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Partner with technical teams to translate privacy requirements into practical controls, patterns, and reusable technical solutions</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Support privacy engineering practices that operationalize compliance without slowing delivery</span></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><strong>Data Use Governance & Decision Frameworks</strong></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Implement standardized, risk-based frameworks for data access, sharing, secondary use, and commercial/partnership data usage</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Drive consistency in how data use decisions are evaluated, approved, and documented across the organization</span></p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><strong>Data Ethics & Responsible Data Use</strong></strong></span></p