Counsel Health - Head of Legal
Requirements
• 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 • 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
Responsibilities
• 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 • Help define what a great in-house legal function looks like at Counsel Health
Benefits
• Legal will be a key partner in how Counsel Health scales. In this role, you won’t just respond to issues as they arise. You’ll help shape how we operate, how we grow, and how we build trust with customers, partners, and patients. If you’re excited to build, to partner closely with ambitious teams, and to bring clarity to complex questions, we’d love to hear from you. • Impact: Be at the forefront and contribute to groundbreaking, AI-driven healthcare experiences, directly interface with execs at the world's leading tech & healthcare orgs • Growth: Significant opportunities for broad ownership and professional development within our rapidly scaling startup • Compensation: Competitive salary + equity • Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare, vision + dental, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave • ---------------------------------------------------- • Patients come first. • We are clinicians 1st, technologists 2nd. We act with patient trust/safety at the center of every decision. • Innovate with optimism. • We are optimistic as we build the future of care delivery from first principles. Challenge the status quo when needed, no sacred cows. • Right answer wins. • Debate openly and pick the strongest path. We optimize for the company, not functions. We win and lose as a team. • Simplicity over complexity. • We choose clear, elegant solutions and avoid adding complexity that does not serve patients or the team. • Do fewer things, well. • We focus, and hold ourselves to the highest bar and pursue excellence in those areas. • Recruitment Fraud Notice. Counsel Health only communicates with candidates using official @counselhealth.com http://counselhealth.com email addresses. We will never ask for payment or financial information during the interview process. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from Counsel Health, please contact us at [email protected]. • Counsel Health participates in E-Verify https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf. All newly hired employees are processed through the E-Verify system to confirm employment eligibility.
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