Director, Privacy Counsel

About this role

About the Job: The Director, Privacy Counsel plays a critical leadership role within FMI’s privacy program and serves as a trusted advisor across FMI’s operations. This role is responsible for independently interpreting and advising on U.S. and ex-U.S

data protection laws, including HIPAA (as a Covered Entity), GDPR, U.S. state consumer and genetic privacy laws, and related regulatory frameworks. As a designated Privacy Officer reporting to the Chief Privacy Officer, this role exercises significant judgment and autonomy in guiding business, clinical, research, and commercial stakeholders, and in shaping and operationalizing FMI’s enterprise privacy strategy

The Director, Privacy Counsel partners closely with legal, compliance, product, commercial, medical, information security, marketing, and business teams to enable responsible data use while protecting patient, customer, and research participant trust. Key Responsibilities: Serve as a senior privacy subject matter expert for FMI, providing legal guidance on privacy matters with minimal reliance on outside counsel. Serve as a Privacy Officer for FMI reporting to the Chief Privacy Officer

Maintain deep, current knowledge of applicable U.S. and ex-U.S. privacy laws, particularly in healthcare, genetic privacy, research, and biopharma collaboration contexts

Advise FMI on matters related to informed consent, HIPAA authorization, research protocols, and secondary data use. Advise FMI on de-identification, pseudonymization, and anonymization standards and evolving regulatory expectations. Support investigation, analysis, remediation, and notification activities related to privacy and security incidents

Support legal colleagues in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating data use and data protection terms in commercial agreements, vendor agreements, data sharing agreements (e.g., BAAs, DPAs, DUAs), research agreements, clinical trial agreements, and other collaboration agreements. Collaborate closely with the privacy tea

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