Director, Privacy Counsel

Job overview:

Omada Health is seeking a Director, Privacy Counsel to manage and mature our enterprise-wide privacy program across a complex and rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. This individual contributor role will operate at the intersection of healthcare regulatory law, consumer technology, and clinical operations, providing practical, business-oriented guidance that enables innovation while protecting our members’ data and trust. Reporting to the VP, Privacy and Healthcare Regulatory, you will serve as Omada’s primary operational privacy leader, partnering across Product, Engineering, Clinical, Commercial, and other key functions to design, implement, and continuously improve policies, processes, and controls that keep us compliant and ahead of emerging risks.

Your impact:

• Manage Omada’s HIPAA privacy program, including policy and procedure development, incident investigations, and breach determination and response, ensuring compliance with HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules.
• Drive privacy-by-design across digital products and services by embedding privacy requirements into product development, engineering workflows, clinical operations, and other business processes.
• Execute Omada’s privacy risk assessment program, including data governance, vendor due diligence, and privacy review for commercial deals with employers, health plans, and PBMs, ensuring our contractual and regulatory obligations are met.
• Provide expert guidance on consumer privacy compliance, including state consumer health data and general consumer privacy laws, digital advertising, and tracking technologies.
• Serve as a key advisor on AI and emerging technologies, including AI privacy guidance and governance considerations across Omada’s AI and machine-learning initiatives.
• Support interoperability and health information exchange participation (e.g., Carequality, CommonWell, TEFCA) by counseling on privacy and data use requirements and helping design compliant data flows.
• Partner with internal stakeholders on ERISA and self-funded health benefit plan privacy considerations.
• Support clinical research privacy compliance and IRB-adjacent work.
• Design and deliver privacy training, awareness, and culture-building initiatives that enable Omada teammates to understand and live our privacy obligations in their day-to-day roles.

Success in this role will be measured by the maturity of our privacy program, including the quality, timeliness, and effectiveness of policies, training, incident response, and privacy counseling, and feedback from leaders and partners across the business.

About you:

• You have a J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar admission.
• You bring 8+ years of privacy law experience, including meaningful in-house experience at a healthcare, digital health, or life sciences company and/or at a top-tier law firm counseling healthcare, digital health, and/or life sciences clients.
• You have deep substantive expertise in HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules and are fluent in the evolving landscape of state consumer privacy and consumer health data laws (e.g., WMHMDA, CCPA/CPRA) and AI governance.
• You have demonstrated experience managing end-to-end privacy incident response and breach notification processes, from triage and investigation through regulator and stakeholder notifications.
• You have a strong track record of advising on privacy-by-design for digital products, and in digital marketing and advertising ecosystems.
• You communicate complex regulatory concepts clearly and succinctly for non-legal audiences and are skilled at crafting guidance that is practical, actionable, and aligned with business goals.
• You are comfortable operating with substantial autonomy, exercising sound judgment in ambiguous regulatory environments with material legal and reputational stakes.
• You are highly organized, able to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously, and known for strong attention to detail.
• You bring a collegial, low-ego working style, enjoy cross-functional collaboration, and balance rigor with perspective and a sense of humor.

Bonus points for:

• Experience at a digital health, telehealth, or health technology company with direct patient or member engagement.
• Familiarity with AI and machine-learning privacy governance and emerging federal and state AI regulations.
• Experience with HIEs and health data interoperability frameworks such as Carequality, CommonWell, and TEFCA.
• Knowledge of ERISA and self-funded health benefit plan privacy considerations.
• Privacy certifications (e.g., CIPP/US, CIPM, CHPS).
• Experience supporting clinical research privacy compliance and IRB-adjacent studies relating to clinical evidence generation.

Zone 1: $242,880 - $303,600

Zone 2: $232,320 - $290,400

Zone 3: $211,200 - $264,000

*The actual offer, including the compensation package, will be within the posted range for the relevant zone and will be determined based on multiple factors, such as the candidate's skills and experience, and other business considerations such as internal equity..