Chief Privacy and Compliance Officer

Your Role

The Stellarus Legal and Compliance team oversees enterprise-wide compliance with privacy laws, regulations, and policies. The Chief Privacy and Compliance Officer will report to the Stellarus Chief Executive Officer along with dotted line reporting to the Stellarus Chief Legal Officer. As the company's first Chief Privacy and Compliance Officer, you will design and lead a comprehensive privacy and compliance program tailored to a fast-moving technology startup environment. You will play a hands-on role in ensuring that our health technology platform and digital health plan solutions comply with healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH, CCPA) and internal compliance and ethical standards-without slowing down innovation. This role blends strategic oversight, cross-functional collaboration with leaders in the company and the ability to execute quickly and build sound a compliance program and operational processes from the ground up.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an ABA accredited law school and Bar admission required (CA strongly preferred)
• CHC or CCEP certification preferred
• Requires substantive experience dealing with privacy, HIPAA and health care regulations
• Requires Privacy Program management experience
• Requires at least 8 (eight) years prior relevant experience as a Privacy SME
• Experience drafting and negotiating complex contracts between health plans and external vendors/technology partners related to Privacy requirements
• Superior contract drafting skills and an ability to assess and draft agreements with a complete understanding of ramifications integrating law and business
• Knowledge of HIPPA
• Strong ability to provide risk assessment/risk mitigation support
• Combination of law firm and in-house experience preferred