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Counsel HealthCounsel HealthNew York, NY

Head of Legal

Founding Head of Legal at an AI-native healthcare company. Build the legal function from the ground up, lead commercial agreements, own healthcare regulatory/compliance matters, support financings and privacy work while partnering closely with leadership to enable fast, responsible growth.

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Remote7+ YOELegal

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Partner with teams across the company on a wide range of legal questions, helping the business move quickly and thoughtfully
  • Lead commercial legal work, including customer, vendor, and partner agreements
  • Build scalable legal and compliance processes that support growth without creating unnecessary friction
  • Own key healthcare regulatory and compliance areas
  • Help design the legal and compliance infrastructure behind our insurance billing operations
  • Support privacy and information security work tied to customer needs, diligence processes, and future financings
  • Support equity and debt financings and help manage broader corporate matters
  • Oversee ongoing work across employment, IP, governance, tax, and other core legal responsibilities
  • Help define what a great in-house legal function looks like at Counsel Health

What You'll Bring

  • Experience early in your career at a top-tier law firm, ideally in a corporate practice
  • Deep experience in healthcare, either as counsel to healthtech companies or in-house at a healthcare or healthtech business
  • A practical, business-minded approach to legal work
  • Strong judgment and the ability to balance risk, speed, and company priorities
  • Comfort working independently and owning complex legal matters from start to finish
  • Experience managing outside counsel and driving important workstreams forward without close oversight
  • Excitement about building systems, processes, and a function from the ground up

Bonus points for:

  • Experience being an early legal hire at a startup or scaling company
  • Familiarity with insurance billing, healthcare regulatory frameworks, and approval processes
  • Experience helping a company grow through new markets, products, or operational complexity

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary + equity
  • Comprehensive healthcare, vision + dental, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave

Skills

Healthcare Regulatory ComplianceCommercial ContractsCorporate FinancePrivacy And Information SecurityInsurance BillingEmployment LawIntellectual PropertyGovernance And Tax

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