Senior Level Director of Safety and Compliance Jobs
Senior level director of safety and compliance jobs place experienced professionals in charge of enterprise-wide risk strategy, regulatory programs, and the cross-functional teams that carry them out. Openings are concentrated across Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Banking & Financial Services, with a mix of on-site, hybrid, and remote positions, and employers like Revolution Medicines, Atlas Technical Consultants, and Langan Engineering and Environmental Services hiring at this level now.
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Join the Team Modernizing Medicine
At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.
A Culture of Excellence
When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction. From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes:
Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work
2025 Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for “Technology Team of the Year”
2025 Black Book Awards: Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties
Florida Venture Forum: Venture-Backed Company of the Year
We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started.
Ready to modernize medicine with us?
Job Description Summary:
Enterprise owner of federal and state software regulatory compliance for ModMed's EHR platforms (EMA and gGastro). Accountable for ONC Health IT certification (§170.315), ONC CHPL listings, and the Conditions and Maintenance of Certification, including semiannual attestations and information-blocking compliance. Leads state-law product compliance, sets regulatory release gates, and leads a team of regulatory analysts and external certification partners.
Position Summary
The Director of Software Regulatory Compliance at ModMed acts as the principal authority on regulatory risk, software certification, and compliance governance across our clinical EHR platforms (EMA® and gGastro®). This leader is primarily responsible for ensuring that ModMed’s clinical software complies with all applicable Federal and State regulations and successfully maintains its status as a certified platform. This role bridges engineering, product management, and corporate legal and compliance to manage our ongoing health IT certification programs, ePrescribing standards, and specialized quality reporting registries.
Key Responsibilities
- Clinical Platform Certification: Lead and manage the end-to-end ONC Health IT Certification cycles for ModMed’s core clinical platforms (EMA® and gGastro®), ensuring continuous compliance with HTI-1, HTI-2, and evolving ONC/HHS criteria.
- Federal & State Regulatory Tracking: Continuously monitor, interpret, and translate evolving Federal and State-specific health IT regulations into actionable technical requirements for the clinical product and engineering teams.
- Interoperability & Data Sharing Mandates: Oversee compliance with CMS/ONC interoperability mandates, information blocking rules, and Certified FHIR API standards to facilitate compliant data exchange within ModMed’s ecosystem.
- ePrescribing Module Oversight: Manage compliance for the ePrescribing module, ensuring continuous alignment with Surescripts certification requirements, DEA Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS) mandates, state-specific prescription monitoring programs (PDMPs), and evolving NCPDP standards.
- Product Regulatory Compliance Governance Reporting: Track and manage Product compliance and certification risk. Drive/maintain platform certification.
- Audit & Inspection Readiness: Serve as the primary liaison and point of contact for federal (CMS, ONC, DEA) and state regulatory agencies, corporate compliance audits, and accredited health IT testing bodies (ATLs/ACBs).
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Health Information Management, Healthcare Law, or a related field. A Master’s degree, or healthcare-focused MBA is a plus.
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in healthcare software regulatory compliance, legal/regulatory affairs, or software quality assurance within an ambulatory EHR, digital health, or SaaS health-tech environment.
- Specialized Certification Expertise: Direct, hands-on experience navigating ONC Health IT Certification paths, Surescripts/EPCS audit cycles, and managing CMS Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs).
- QPP Mastery: Deep regulatory knowledge of CMS Quality Payment Program rules, MIPS reporting categories, and the backend technical software requirements needed to support them.
- Domain Knowledge: Understanding of specialized outpatient clinical workflows (e.g., Dermatology, GI, Ophthalmology), HL7/FHIR interoperability standards, and state-level electronic prescribing mandates.
ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:
United States
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution,
- 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
- Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs,
- Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs,
- Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed,
- Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning,
- Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles,
- Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.
PHISHING SCAM WARNING: ModMed is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving imposters posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote "interviews," and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from ModMed without a formal interview process, and valid communications from our hiring team will come from our employees with a ModMed email address (first.lastname@modmed.com). Please check senders’ email addresses carefully. Additionally, ModMed will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you are receiving communications as described above, please report them to the FTC website.
Join the Team Modernizing Medicine
At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.
A Culture of Excellence
When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction. From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes:
Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work
2025 Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for “Technology Team of the Year”
2025 Black Book Awards: Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties
Florida Venture Forum: Venture-Backed Company of the Year
We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started.
Ready to modernize medicine with us?
Job Description Summary:
Enterprise owner of federal and state software regulatory compliance for ModMed's EHR platforms (EMA and gGastro). Accountable for ONC Health IT certification (§170.315), ONC CHPL listings, and the Conditions and Maintenance of Certification, including semiannual attestations and information-blocking compliance. Leads state-law product compliance, sets regulatory release gates, and leads a team of regulatory analysts and external certification partners.
Position Summary
The Director of Software Regulatory Compliance at ModMed acts as the principal authority on regulatory risk, software certification, and compliance governance across our clinical EHR platforms (EMA® and gGastro®). This leader is primarily responsible for ensuring that ModMed’s clinical software complies with all applicable Federal and State regulations and successfully maintains its status as a certified platform. This role bridges engineering, product management, and corporate legal and compliance to manage our ongoing health IT certification programs, ePrescribing standards, and specialized quality reporting registries.
Key Responsibilities
- Clinical Platform Certification: Lead and manage the end-to-end ONC Health IT Certification cycles for ModMed’s core clinical platforms (EMA® and gGastro®), ensuring continuous compliance with HTI-1, HTI-2, and evolving ONC/HHS criteria.
- Federal & State Regulatory Tracking: Continuously monitor, interpret, and translate evolving Federal and State-specific health IT regulations into actionable technical requirements for the clinical product and engineering teams.
- Interoperability & Data Sharing Mandates: Oversee compliance with CMS/ONC interoperability mandates, information blocking rules, and Certified FHIR API standards to facilitate compliant data exchange within ModMed’s ecosystem.
- ePrescribing Module Oversight: Manage compliance for the ePrescribing module, ensuring continuous alignment with Surescripts certification requirements, DEA Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS) mandates, state-specific prescription monitoring programs (PDMPs), and evolving NCPDP standards.
- Product Regulatory Compliance Governance Reporting: Track and manage Product compliance and certification risk. Drive/maintain platform certification.
- Audit & Inspection Readiness: Serve as the primary liaison and point of contact for federal (CMS, ONC, DEA) and state regulatory agencies, corporate compliance audits, and accredited health IT testing bodies (ATLs/ACBs).
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Health Information Management, Healthcare Law, or a related field. A Master’s degree, or healthcare-focused MBA is a plus.
- Experience: 8+ years of experience in healthcare software regulatory compliance, legal/regulatory affairs, or software quality assurance within an ambulatory EHR, digital health, or SaaS health-tech environment.
- Specialized Certification Expertise: Direct, hands-on experience navigating ONC Health IT Certification paths, Surescripts/EPCS audit cycles, and managing CMS Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs).
- QPP Mastery: Deep regulatory knowledge of CMS Quality Payment Program rules, MIPS reporting categories, and the backend technical software requirements needed to support them.
- Domain Knowledge: Understanding of specialized outpatient clinical workflows (e.g., Dermatology, GI, Ophthalmology), HL7/FHIR interoperability standards, and state-level electronic prescribing mandates.
ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:
United States
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution,
- 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
- Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs,
- Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs,
- Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed,
- Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning,
- Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles,
- Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.
PHISHING SCAM WARNING: ModMed is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving imposters posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote "interviews," and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from ModMed without a formal interview process, and valid communications from our hiring team will come from our employees with a ModMed email address (first.lastname@modmed.com). Please check senders’ email addresses carefully. Additionally, ModMed will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you are receiving communications as described above, please report them to the FTC website.
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Senior Level Director of Safety and Compliance Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level director of safety and compliance job?
Employers at this level look for candidates who have owned safety and compliance programs end to end, not just supported them. Demonstrated success reducing incident rates, navigating regulatory audits, or building compliance frameworks from the ground up carries significant weight. Cross-functional leadership experience, relevant certifications such as CSP or CHC, and the ability to influence executive decision-making are what separate competitive candidates from the rest.
Which companies hire senior level director of safety and compliances?
Companies hiring senior level director of safety and compliances right now include Revolution Medicines, Atlas Technical Consultants, and Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Hiring at this level tends to come from large industrial, healthcare, and financial services organizations with complex regulatory environments that require dedicated senior leadership.
Are there remote senior level director of safety and compliance jobs?
Yes, though many roles at this level still require some on-site presence given the hands-on nature of safety oversight. About 45% of senior level director of safety and compliance openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with hybrid arrangements being the most common for roles that involve facility visits, audits, or direct team leadership.
What makes a director of safety and compliance role senior level?
Senior level roles are defined by program ownership rather than program support. These directors set organizational safety strategy, manage compliance across multiple business units or locations, interpret and apply complex regulatory requirements independently, and mentor junior compliance staff. They report to executive leadership, influence company-wide policy, and are accountable for outcomes rather than tasks.
Which industries hire the most senior level director of safety and compliances?
Senior level director of safety and compliance roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Banking & Financial Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors tend to operate under strict federal and state regulatory frameworks, creating sustained demand for experienced leaders who can manage compliance risk at scale.