Natera

We are a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health.

Director, Data and AI Governance

Artificial IntelligenceArtificial IntelligenceFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2004H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

53 days ago

Salary

$217.1K - $271.4K / year

High School15 yrs expExperience acceptedEnglishETL

Job Description

• Establish and lead enterprise-wide data management programs that ensure safe, compliant, high-quality data and AI. • Oversee Data Governance, AI Governance, and Data + AI Stewardship, serving as the central authority on policies, forums, and controls across R&D, Lab Operations, Commercial, and SG&A domains. • Lead the Data & AI Governance Council through advocacy and a well thought data management strategy. • Define enterprise data management strategy and operating model and ensure that it is executed consistently across the enterprise. • Chair and operationalize the AI & Data Governance Council, driving decision-making and accountability across legal, regulatory, compliance, IT, security, engineering, and product. • Lead a federated stewardship model, ensuring business units own data while governance enforces consistency and compliance. • Establish governance forums (steering committees, working groups, architecture boards) with clear outcomes. • Build and drive adoption of 360° master/reference datasets (e.g., Case360, Patient 360, Provider 360, Billing 360) and ensure they are maintained as sources of truth for analytics and AI. • Partner with engineering teams to build interoperable standards that can be used to connect domain datasets to create longitudinal data products. • Define and enforce enterprise data governance policies, ensuring consistency in data definitions, lineage, and stewardship across all domains. • Build and manage enterprise data catalogs and metadata services to make data discoverable, trustworthy, and reusable across the organization. • Establish and operate data quality frameworks with validation rules, anomaly detection, and automated testing to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. • Embed data quality checks and lineage tracking directly into data and AI pipelines so that governance guardrails can be adopted without friction. • Develop AI use case risk management framework (RMF) to evaluate AI use cases from a governance, regulatory, medical, privacy, security, and risk standpoint. • Build and maintain an AI risk register and incident response plan for all AI use cases. • Develop governance policies (privacy, security, quality, fairness, integrity) aligned to HIPAA, CLIA, FDA, GDPR, and emerging AI regulations. • Translate policies into technical implementations by embedding controls into ETL pipelines, feature stores, and model registries. • Build and execute agentic automation processes and associated guardrails to enable business process automation. • Build documentation and process to ensure agent accountability through change history, audit logs, versioning etc. • Track external regulatory trends and industry standards (e.g., NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, FDA AI/ML guidance).

Job Requirements

  • 15+ years in Data or AI governance with at least 7+ in leadership roles.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
  • Proven track record of building and leading enterprise-wide governance programs, councils, and stewardship networks that span both data governance (catalogs, lineage, quality) and AI/ML governance (model risk, bias/fairness, explainability, monitoring).
  • Deep understanding of healthcare regulatory frameworks impacting AI: HIPAA, CLIA, FDA, GDPR, and regulations (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, Japan AI Promotion Act).
  • Experience with LLM/GenAI governance implementation as per common regulatory frameworks: prompt logging, bias testing, guardrails, explainability.
  • Experience in vendor AI/ML evaluation and governance, including due diligence of third-party AI/ML tools and platforms.

Benefits

  • Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
  • Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits.
  • Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more.
  • We also offer a generous employee referral program!

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