Entity: WELL Health Technologies
Job Title: Senior Privacy Analyst – Advisory
Team: Privacy and AI Office, Law Department
Base Salary: $110,000–$135,000, based on experience
Job Class: Full-time, permanent
Work Location: Toronto, Ontario
About the Company:
WELL Health Technologies is a practitioner-focused digital healthcare company with a mission to tech-enable healthcare providers. Its ecosystem includes primary care and specialty clinics, digital health solutions, practitioner enablement platforms, and AI-powered healthcare technologies.
Position Summary:
As a Senior Privacy Analyst – Advisory, you will work with project teams to build privacy into WELL’s programs, services, and digital health initiatives from the start. You will carry out privacy assessments, draft policies and notices, develop training, and advise business teams across the WELL ecosystem, using AI tools to work at scale.
You will join the Advisory team of WELL’s Privacy and AI Office, a central function that supports WELL Health, its clinics, WELLSTAR, HEALWELL, WELL Research, and other WELL businesses. You will be the go-to privacy advisor for a group of WELL businesses, which may include our clinic network, WELLSTAR’s technology companies, HEALWELL, and WELL Research.
What you will be doing:
Privacy by Design for Digital Health
- Partner with product, engineering, clinical, and project teams from the start of new digital health initiatives, such as virtual care, patient apps, EMR integrations, and data platforms.
- Set privacy requirements for each initiative, including consent, data minimization, de-identification, retention, access controls, and cross-border transfers.
- Review designs and changes before launch, and confirm that privacy requirements are built in.
Privacy Assessments
- Prepare Privacy Preliminary Assessments (PPAs), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), and Data Management Plans for new projects, products, vendors, and data-sharing arrangements.
- Gather information from project teams, identify privacy risks, and recommend practical mitigations.
- Track privacy actions within projects and programs through to completion.
- Escalate higher-risk matters to the Chief Privacy Officer.
Policies Processes and Notices
- Draft and update privacy policies, procedures, and guidance for business units and clinics.
- Draft and maintain public-facing privacy notices and materials so they stay accurate and current.
- Help build documented privacy processes where they are missing or inconsistent.
Legal and Regulatory Advice
- Research privacy law questions and apply PHIPA, PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, Alberta HIA and PIPA, BC PIPA, and other provincial legislation to new work.
- Monitor guidance from the IPC, OPC, CAI, and other regulators and flag what it means for the business.
AI Governance
- Help implement WELL’s AI governance program.
- Run AI privacy and impact assessments, and keep the inventory of AI systems current.
- Assess AI vendors and AI use cases with the Chief Privacy Officer.
Training and Collaboration
- Develop and deliver privacy training for clinic, corporate, and technology teams, including role-based sessions and e-learning.
- Liaise with the Privacy Operations team: hand off operational follow-up from projects, and use what Operations sees in incidents, requests, and complaints to improve guidance and training.
- Act as the first point of contact for your assigned business units.
- Support vendor and third-party risk assessments with Procurement.
- Prepare content for AI-powered self-serve support tools used by clinics and business teams.
How you will work with AI
We are building an AI-enabled privacy function. You will use AI as a core part of the job, and AI-enabled productivity is part of your objectives.
- Use generative AI tools to produce first drafts of privacy assessments and policies, then review, complete, and stand behind every output.
- Use AI to pre-fill vendor questionnaires, compare policies, and summarize regulatory guidance.
- Build and maintain approved content for self-serve privacy support.
- Suggest new ways to automate or speed up advisory work, and share what works with the team.
All AI use follows our controls: approved tools only, careful handling of personal health information, accuracy checks, and human review of every output.
You have:
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in privacy, data protection, or a related compliance role, ideally in healthcare or health technology.
- Hands-on experience writing PIAs or similar privacy assessments, and drafting policies and notices.
- Experience advising product or project teams on privacy by design.
- Working knowledge of PHIPA and PIPEDA; familiarity with Quebec Law 25 and other provincial privacy laws.
- Experience developing and delivering privacy training.
- Demonstrated, regular use of AI tools to produce or speed up work, with good judgement about their limits.
- Clear, practical writing and the ability to explain privacy requirements to non-specialists.
- The ability to manage several business units and competing priorities at once.
Preferred Qualifications
- AI governance experience, such as AI impact assessments, AI risk frameworks, or AI vendor reviews.
- Consulting experience or a relevant degree, including information management, health information, or a related field.
- Experience working in healthcare, digital health platforms, EMRs, or clinic operations.
- Experience with vendor and third-party risk assessments.
The salary for this position falls within a defined range and will be determined based on several factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and the needs of the organization. At WELL, we are committed to fair and equitable compensation and aim to provide a competitive salary that reflects the value and expertise of the successful candidate.
WELL is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and accessible workplace. We welcome and celebrate the diversity of applicants and team members across ability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and lived experience. We strive to create an environment where differences are valued and contribute to our collective success – this is the WELL Way.
This recruitment process uses automated tools, including artificial intelligence, to help review applications. Qualified human decision-makers review these results and make all final hiring decisions.
WELL has been independently certified as a Great Place to Work® by the Great Place to Work Institute® Canada. This recognition reflects our commitment to building a workplace culture rooted in trust, inclusivity, and employee well-being. It also aligns with our Healthy Place to Work pillar and the priorities outlined in our annual Sustainability Impact Report.
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