Privacy AI Counsel

Job Description

Welcome to AMN Healthcare — Where Talent Meets Purpose

Ever wondered what it takes to build one of the largest and most respected healthcare staffing and total talent solutions companies? It takes trailblazers, innovators, and exceptional people like you.

At AMN Healthcare, we don’t just offer jobs — we build careers that make a difference.

Why AMN Healthcare? Because Excellence Is Our Standard:

• Named to Becker’s Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare — three years running.
• Consistently ranked among SIA’s Largest Staffing Firms in America.
• Honored with Modern Healthcare’s Innovators Award for driving change through innovation.
• Proud holder of The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Staffing Companies since 2006.

Location: Dallas, TX role is 3 days a week onsite

Job Summary

The Privacy AI Counsel, will Manage a strategic, enterprise-wide privacy program that supports business operations, strengthens legal and regulatory readiness, reduces privacy and AI-related risk, and enables consistent practices for data use, AI deployment, incident response, technology contracting, and privacy-by-design. This role will serve as a key legal and operational advisor to business, technology, security, product, marketing, and leadership stakeholders on privacy strategy, AI governance, contracting, vendor risk, regulatory change, training, and scalable controls.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and manage an enterprise-wide privacy, program that protects personal, confidential, protected, and business information while enabling appropriate innovation.
• Advise business, IT, security, marketing, product, and operational teams on privacy and AI-related laws, AI governance, data use, data sharing, retention, and disclosure requirements.
• Monitor, interpret, and operationalize applicable privacy, healthcare, AI, cybersecurity, data protection, consumer protection, and technology laws and regulatory guidance, including HIPAA, TCPA, state privacy laws, GDPR, breach notification laws, and emerging federal, state, and international AI requirements.
• Lead or support review of AI use cases, to address privacy and other legal compliance requirements.
• Draft, review, and negotiate technology contracts and related privacy, AI, data protection, confidentiality, cybersecurity, business associate, data processing, SaaS, cloud, software licensing, professional services, vendor, and client contract terms.
• Partner with information security, IT, and business owners to evaluate technology vendors, AI tools, subcontractors, data flows, security controls, contractual protections, and third-party privacy, AI, and cybersecurity risks.
• Lead or support investigation, assessment, documentation, escalation, and resolution of potential privacy and/or, data security, related incidents, including breach analysis, notification obligations, remediation planning, root cause analysis, and stakeholder coordination.
• Develop and maintain program documentation, including policies, procedures, notices, data protection guidance, incident records, risk assessments, AI impact assessments, playbooks, data inventories, and records of processing activities.

• Conduct privacy impact assessments, data protection impact assessments, AI impact assessments, and technology risk reviews for new products, services, systems, vendor relationships, business processes, data initiatives, and organizational changes
• Translate complex legal, privacy, AI, and technology requirements into practical, business-oriented guidance, templates, playbooks, controls, and training materials for cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support audits, assessments, regulatory inquiries, and continuous improvement activities by identifying privacy, AI, and technology contracting gaps, recommending remediation, tracking mitigation efforts, and reporting on program maturity and risk trends.
• Advise on data governance and lifecycle management practices, including data collection, access, use, sharing, storage, retention, disposal, secondary use, de-identification, anonymization, cross-border transfers, and responsible AI data stewardship.
• Support merger, acquisition, divestiture, integration, and strategic technology initiatives by assessing privacy, AI, data security, and technology contract risks and helping align acquired or transitioning businesses with company practices.

Key Skills

• Excellent time management, prioritization, and organizational skills with high work standards and attention to detail
• Achievement of privacy, AI governance, technology contract, vendor risk, and regulatory priorities.
• Quality of legal guidance, contract terms, risk assessments, AI reviews, and privacy analyses 
• Completion of privacy reviews, AI assessments, technology contract reviews, vendor evaluations, and incident matters.
• Stakeholder feedback on responsiveness, practicality, and business-oriented support
• Accuracy of contract redlines, privacy terms, AI documentation, risk assessments, and regulatory analysis.
• Timely completion of contract reviews, privacy and AI assessments, incident support, and stakeholder requests.

Qualifications

Education & Years of Experience

• Juris Doctorate plus 7-10 years of legal, privacy, compliance, or regulatory experience, including a minimum of 5 years working in privacy, data protection, technology transactions, cybersecurity, healthcare, technology contracting, or related legal functions
• In-depth understanding and working experience with privacy compliance laws, healthcare privacy requirements, data protection principles and NIST frameworks, and regulatory frameworks, including HIPAA, TCPA, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, state privacy laws, breach notification laws, and related guidance.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating technology contracts, including SaaS, cloud, software licensing, data processing, business associate, confidentiality, cybersecurity, vendor, professional services, and client contract terms.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively use technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, support decision-making, and enhance business outcomes while adhering to company policies and responsible AI practices 

Preferred Education/Certifications:

• CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, AIGP, or comparable privacy certification

Admission to the Texas Bar

Work Environment / Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in an office/home office environment.
• Team Members must have the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards.

AMN Healthcare will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of the job.

Our Core Values

● Respect ● Passion ● Continuous Improvement ● Trust ● Customer Focus ● Innovation

At AMN we embrace the ways we are similar and different; respecting all voices and ensuring everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our collective success. We acknowledge our shared responsibility to foster a welcoming environment where everyone feels recognized and valued. We cast a wide net to recruit and retain competitive talent and build healthcare workforces supportive of the communities we serve. We believe in the power of compassion and collaboration to build healthy communities where access to quality care is available to all. Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

At AMN we recognize that in-person connections have value and promote collaboration. You will be expected to come into an AMN Healthcare office at a frequency dependent on the work arrangement for your role.

Pay Rate

$140,000 - $166,000 Salary

Final pay rate is dependent on experience, training, education, and location.