Senior Director, Corporate Social Responsibility

Responsibilities

• ESG Strategy & Governance
• Lead responsibility
• Architect and champion the organization's global ESG strategy, with emphasis on responsible business practices, social impact, health equity, sustainability, and long-term stakeholder value creation
• Define enterprise commitments, roadmaps, KPIs, and governance frameworks that reflect materiality assessments and the perspectives of a wide range of stakeholders
• Provide strategic recommendations to executive leadership and the board on ESG risks, opportunities, and priorities
• Build the business case for corporate citizenship initiatives and assist in managing applicable external partnerships
• Monitor emerging regulatory trends (California climate legislation, EU CSRD) and evolving stakeholder expectations to continuously refine strategy
• Reporting, Disclosure & Assurance
• Lead responsibility
• Oversee all ESG and corporate responsibility reporting, ensuring quality, timeliness, and audit-readiness of disclosures
• Determine reporting approach aligned with disclosure frameworks including SASB, TCFD, CDP, and GHG Protocol
• Establish metrics, data governance, internal controls, and reporting cadence aligned with assurance-readiness requirements
• Lead external assurance activities; track progress against targets and drive corrective actions
• Serve as subject matter expert on evolving disclosure standards
• Stakeholder Engagement, Communications & External Relations
• Lead responsibility
• Serve as primary corporate responsibility and sustainability interface with customers, investors, regulators, auditors, and ESG ratings agencies
• Design and lead ESG stakeholder engagement processes
• Embed social responsibility standards into supplier expectations and enterprise policies
• Communicate complex social impact and sustainability concepts, initiatives, progress, and performance to internal and external audiences
• Manage performance across key ESG ratings platforms including MSCI, ISS ESG, Sustainalytics, EcoVadis, and CDP
• Represent the organization in external forums and industry coalitions
• Regulatory & Standards Compliance
• Lead responsibility
• Ensure compliance with evolving sustainability and environmental regulations across operational jurisdictions; monitor disclosure requirements and industry standards
• Coordinate organizational responses to emerging regulations, translating regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance for business teams
• Environmental Stewardship
• Lead responsibility
• Coordinate climate and environmental initiatives including greenhouse gas accounting (Scope 1, 2, 3), renewable energy, energy efficiency, and waste and circularity objectives
• Embed environmental stewardship into operational planning and cap

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Company Description Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant® is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn , X (Twitter) and Facebook . The Senior Director, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability is an enterprise leader accountable for architecting and delivering the organization's global ESG and corporate responsibility strategy. This role owns the full ESG governance model, reporting framework, and execution roadmap, translating the organization's commitments into measurable priorities aligned with business strategies. Central to this mandate is advancing the company's social impact agenda: improving patient outcomes, expanding access to healthcare for underserved communities, upholding health equity, and embedding responsible business practices throughout the value chain. Environmental sustainability initiatives, including climate, emissions, and circularity, support and reinforce this broader mission. The ideal candidate brings a proven track record as a leader who has built ESG programs, governance structures, and reporting frameworks from the ground up in life sciences or other complex, regulated industries, combined with deep fluency in ESG disclosure frameworks, external assurance, and ratings management. As the primary external interface on sustainability and corporate responsibility matters, this leader manages relationships with customers, investors, regulators, and ratings agencies, and influences board-level decision-making on ESG strategy, risk, and long-term value creation. Success requires deep ESG expertise, a mission-driven mindset, and the credibility and communication skills to drive enterprise-wide alignment without direct authority.

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