Associate General Counsel, Commercial

About the Role

As Associate General Counsel, Commercial, you’ll report directly to the General Counsel, providing commercially-minded strategic and scalable solutions to legal issues. We need an innovative, collaborative, and organized partner who can help us identify and resolve complex issues in a user-focused, fast-paced environment. You’ll wear many hats – from reviewing contracts with health plans, partners, and vendors, to developing and managing systems and processes that drive efficiency and compliance, to handling the emerging needs of a growing company.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and support across a wide variety of legal and business needs at a rapidly growing, dynamic startup
• Partner with internal stakeholders to build efficient processes for the commercial and compliance functions, including through the creation and maintenance of playbooks, templates, self-help workflows, and document management systems
• Negotiate a variety of agreements in the technology, digital health, and healthcare space, including partnership agreements, data agreements, MSAs, BAAs, and technology licensing agreements
• Undertake special projects and investigations to enable new business growth
• Become a trusted, go-to legal advisor who advances the company’s overall mission and goals while identifying and mitigating legal risks among a distributed workforce
• Remain up-to-date on relevant industry trends, laws and regulations to ensure an ongoing ability to provide sound compliance advice
• Responsibly manage outside counsel

Qualifications

• 7+ years of commercial/technology/IP transactional or regulatory experience, including experience in a premier law firm setting. Experience in-house in healthcare, medical devices, or digital health preferred.
• Highly organized, strong project management skills, with the ability to handle multiple matters simultaneously in an entrepreneurial, dynamic environment
• Experience drafting and negotiating legal documents of varying levels of complexity
• Solid judgment in identifying key risks, finding elegant solutions, and working with business colleagues to appropriately mitigate risk to achieve the organization’s commercial goals
• Significant exposure to key regulatory and contractual issues in the digital health space, such as HIPAA, FDA, FTC, healthcare compliance, and intellectual property
• Team player, willing and able to pitch in across wide variety of legal and business needs, where no job is too big or too small
• Growth-minded with demonstrated ability to rapidly absorb and internalize new information and processes
• Excited to help conceptualize and build key capabilities and processes at rapidly growing startup
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, effective in a distributed environment
• JD from accredited U.S. law school; licensed in good standing with a state bar