VP, Privacy and Compliance Officer

Overview

Now is the time to join us! 

We’re Personify Health. We’re the first and only personalized health platform company to bring health, wellbeing, and navigation solutions together. Helping businesses optimize investments in their members while empowering people to meaningfully engage with their health. At Personify Health, we believe in offering total rewards, flexible opportunities, and a diverse inclusive community, where every voice matters. Together, we’re shaping a healthier, more engaged future.

Responsibilities

Who are you?

You are an experienced  privacy attorney with experience in (i) the healthcare industry or another highly-regulated data intensive area and (ii) building a privacy and regulatory compliance program.  

In the role of Vice President, Privacy & Compliance for Personify Health, you will be joining a small but dedicated team of seasoned in-house attorneys and subject matter experts and report directly to our General Counsel.  Your goal will be to build and manage our privacy and compliance programs across both business units and the entire enterprise, institute policies and train employees, provide general counsel and advice on privacy and regulatory matters to the executive team as the company’s subject matter expert, maintain all privacy registrations, and negotiate, draft and amend a wide variety of contract documents for our clients and manage subject matter experts in both privacy and regulatory matters.

In this role you will wear many hats, but your knowledge will be essential in the following:  

• Provide expert legal advice and guidance to clients on a wide range of data privacy and security, telemedicine, mobile health applications, electronic health records, artificial intelligence, medical device and other compliance related regulations.
• Serve as lead subject matter expert on domestic and international privacy and data security within our Legal team and, in partnership with the CISO, broadly across the Company
• Manage a team of privacy and compliance professionals to collectively address the privacy & compliance needs of the company
• Provide strategic and tactical advice in connection with our data security, regulatory and privacy compliance program
• Track ongoing legislative initiatives that could impact Personify’s product portfolio and advise product management and engineering executives on the same
• Participate in AI steering committee; evaluate and make judgements as to the risks associated with proposed AI use cases
• At the development stage, partner with Legal teammates and our Consumer Product organization to deploy practices of privacy by design and default, perform privacy and data impact assessments, and guide compliant development
• Partner with Legal teammates and our global Procurement Team to review vendor onboarding from a privacy perspective and to support the development and negotiation of supplier and partner privacy agreements
• Maintain record of processing activities and map flow of data for suppliers, employees, and other third parties
• Draft and update privacy and compliance policies, template agreements, and other foundational resources to ensure adherence to evolving regulatory requirements in the US and globally
• Develop and conduct privacy and compliance training to fulfill business and compliance needs
• In partnership with our CISO, support preparation and execution of internal and external audits of global privacy practices
• Manage incident response matters in partnership with CISO

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Qualifications

What you bring to the Personify Health team:

In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience practicing law with a focus on privacy.  Some in house experience preferred 
• Experience in advising on broader regulatory compliance issues outside of privacy is a plus
• Experience building a privacy and/or regulatory program for clients, including drafting and instituting all required policies and a establishing a compliance culture via training and other tools
• JD degree from an accredited law school and a current member in good standing of a US state bar
• One or more of the following IAPP certifications: CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPP/A, CIPP/C a plus
• One or more cybersecurity or AI certifications a plus

You also take pride in offering the following Core Skills, Competencies, and Characteristics:

• Have a true passion for privacy and data security
• Deep knowledge of federal and state privacy and data security laws, regulations, and standards, including HIPAA, CCPA, and consumer protection, with an emphasis on healthcare related privacy regulations is required.
• You provide business-minded pragmatic legal advice, enabling risk-optimized successful client outcomes
• Problem-solver who is resourceful, mature, flexible, organized, and calm under pressure
• Ability to juggle multiple initiatives and work cross functionally
• Past management experience a plus
• Demonstrated history working creatively and strategically with global security and software product development leaders specific to ensuring adherence to privacy standards
• Expert in drafting and reviewing product statements, consent forms, privacy notices, and other documents designed to ensure compliance with applicable data protection laws
• Experienced with privacy-related contract review and negotiation including data transfer agreements, data processing agreements, and privacy-related provisions for other commercial agreements

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

Personify Health is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice.

In compliance with all states and cities that require transparency of pay, the base compensation for this position ranges from $200,000 to $235,000 annually. Note that compensation may vary based on location, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for 20% target bonus/variable compensation as well as health, dental, vision, mental health and other benefits.

We strive to cultivate a work environment where differences are celebrated, and employees of all backgrounds are empowered to thrive. Personify Health is committed to driving Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) for all stakeholders: employees (at each organization level), members, clients and the communities in which we operate. Diversity is core to who we are and critical to our work in health and wellbeing.

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Application Deadline: Open until position is filled.