General Counsel

In this role, you will be expected to:

Executive Leadership & Strategy

• Serve as the company's chief legal advisor and strategic partner to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team.
• Develop and execute the company's overall legal strategy, ensuring legal priorities support business growth and long term company objectives.
• Provide thoughtful, practical guidance that balances legal risk with commercial opportunity.
• Partner across every function including Sales, Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, People, Security, and Clinical to enable the business to move quickly while protecting the company.

Legal Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a small but high performing legal team consisting of an Associate General Counsel and Commercial Counsel.
• Establish priorities, allocate work effectively, and continue building a scalable legal function capable of supporting a rapidly growing healthcare technology company.
• Foster a culture of partnership, accountability, responsiveness, and practical problem solving.

Commercial & Operational Legal Support

• Personally negotiate, draft, and advise on a wide range of complex commercial agreements, strategic partnerships, vendor relationships, customer contracts, and healthcare agreements.
• Oversee the company's commercial contracting strategy and continuously improve legal processes that enable faster business execution.
• Partner closely with business leaders to remove friction while maintaining appropriate legal protections.

Corporate Governance & Risk Management

• Lead all corporate governance activities, corporate records, entity management, and governance best practices.
• Identify emerging legal and regulatory risks and proactively develop strategies to mitigate them.
• Manage litigation, investigations, employment matters, and outside counsel relationships.

Regulatory & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable healthcare, privacy, technology, AI, and corporate regulations. 
• Partner with Security, Clinical, Product, and Operations leaders on evolving regulatory requirements affecting the business.
• Oversee intellectual property strategy and protection of company assets.

Strategic Transactions

• Lead legal support for mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, partnerships, financings, and other significant corporate transactions.
• Conduct legal due diligence and structure transactions that support the company's long term growth.

Special Considerations: 

While we are a remote-first company with employees located across the U.S., we do have a NYC office located at Penn 1. Many of our local employees come into the office on Wednesdays for collaboration and connection (and lunch!), and we have a strong preference for this hire to be on the east coast.

What will make you successful here in this role:

• You think like a business leader first and a lawyer at the same time.
• You enjoy building organizations, not just maintaining them.
• You are equally comfortable presenting to the Board, coaching your team, and negotiating contracts yourself.
• You know when to say "no," but more importantly, you know how to help the business get to "yes."
• You lead with humility, sound judgment, and a collaborative mindset.
• You thrive in lean environments where everyone contributes and no work is beneath the leader.

Requirements:

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with a state bar.
• 12+ years of legal experience, including meaningful experience in both a leading law firm and an in-house legal department supporting healthcare, healthcare technology, SaaS, AI, or other highly regulated technology businesses.
• Prior experience leading and developing legal teams while remaining actively engaged in legal execution.
• Demonstrated success advising executive leadership teams on complex legal and business matters.
• Exceptional commercial judgment with the ability to provide practical, business focused advice rather than simply identifying legal risk.
• Outstanding negotiation, communication, and relationship building skills.
• Strong experience with commercial contracting, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, litigation management, and strategic transactions.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast moving, high growth environment where priorities evolve quickly.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plans - choose from three plans, including one with 100% of premiums covered for you and your dependents
• Vision & Dental
• Hybrid Time Off Policy (Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy for exempt employees and Paid Time Off (PTO) Policy for non-exempt employees) 
• Sick days in accordance with your state law
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• 12 Fixed Holidays (company closed)
• 5 Covera Days
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Annual Professional Development Stipend to invest in courses, books, or any other professional development related activity
• Annual Wellness stipend for fitness, mental health or other wellness expenses
  
  

The minimum and maximum base salary for this position ranges from $325,000-$375,000, in addition to a discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits package. Final compensation will be based on a number of factors including but not limited to, a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, expertise and location.

Please note

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