Senior Director, Global Privacy
United States
Full Time
1 hour ago
$216,000 - $270,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
Cyber SecurityAIAnalyticsLeadershipRisk Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of Crinetics’ global privacy and data-protection program
- Establish and chair enterprise privacy and data-governance forums
- Provide regular executive-level reporting on privacy risk posture
- Serve as the company’s senior legal authority on privacy, data protection, and data-use governance
- Translate complex legal requirements into practical operating guidance
- Provide senior-level oversight of privacy considerations across the clinical-trial lifecycle
- Advise on privacy governance for interactions with CROs, investigators, sites, and vendors
- Lead privacy strategy for cross-border data transfers
- Oversee privacy and data-use governance for various programs
- Ensure appropriate consent mechanisms
- Establish controls to maintain appropriate separation between clinical research data and commercial or marketing uses
- Lead privacy and data-governance oversight for AI and advanced analytics
- Monitor, interpret, and operationalize emerging privacy laws and guidance
- Oversee the privacy risk-assessment framework
- Provide senior legal oversight of vendor agreements
- Partner with Procurement, IT Security, and Compliance to oversee third-party privacy and security risk management
- Play a senior leadership role in privacy and data-security incident response
- Align privacy governance with cybersecurity controls
- Build and lead a high-performing privacy function
- Drive enterprise-wide privacy training and awareness.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
- 15 years of relevant legal experience, including significant experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or healthcare environments
- A minimum of 10 years of experience as a supervisor with strong leadership skills and experience managing and developing high-performing teams
- Ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated experience leading an enterprise-level privacy or data-governance program, with accountability for outcomes
- Deep expertise in HIPAA, GDPR, U.S. state privacy and consumer health data laws, and global data-transfer frameworks
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders, manage cross-functional stakeholders, and exercise independent judgment on complex risk issues
- Strong experience negotiating complex commercial, vendor, and clinical research agreements involving data protection.
Tech Stack
- Cyber Security
Benefits
- discretionary annual target bonus
- stock options
- ESPP
- 401k match
- top-notch health insurance plans for employees (and their families) to include medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance
- 20 days of PTO
- 10 paid holidays
- winter company shutdown