Director, Data and AI Governance

Required:

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.

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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Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

As the Director of Data & AI Governance, you will establish and lead enterprise-wide data management programs that ensure safe, compliant, high-quality data and AI. You will 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. You will lead the Data & AI Governance Council through advocacy and a well thought data management strategy.

This role goes beyond policies into technical governance — it requires experience of how to build frameworks, deploy controls in code, and integrate governance into engineering delivery. The role spans all dimensions of governance, including: quality, privacy, security, agentic automation, AI risk management, bias/fairness testing, evals, and vendor AI evaluation.