Associate General Counsel
Our mission is to deliver high-quality primary care that is accessible, convenient and affordable for all. Every single day you’ll be working on challenging problems with exceptional people to profoundly transform primary care and improve people’s quality of life.
Your Role and Impact
Reporting to the General Counsel, you will lead the legal team’s efforts in contracting, which includes building out new channels and working cross-functionally. As Associate General Counsel, you will manage one contracts paralegal, as well as any future attorneys and paralegals supporting commercial efforts. This role is critical to ensuring the business success of a rapidly growing, healthcare technology startup.
Responsibilities
- Provide legal and strategic business advice to develop a comprehensive, long-term approach with our key commercial customers
- Advise commercial team on pricing strategies and compliance with Anti-Kickback, Stark Law, fee-splitting laws, ERISA, the Affordable Care Act and a range of other laws affecting employee benefits, health plans and other potential channels
- Negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements with customers, including master services agreements and statements of work, subscription agreements, etc., and establish partnerships with ancillary partners
- Advise on risks and liabilities of proposed commercial transactions and devise creative and practical legal solutions to meet business objectives
- Refine our contracting process for new lines of commercial customers and partnerships
- Oversee and implement process improvements for managing contracts with SaaS vendors and partners, research agreements and independent contractor agreements
- Develop form agreements and contracting best practices to ensure uniformity across the legal team, including establishing negotiation principles and standard contracting positions
- Keep informed of applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact commercial agreements
- Provide advice and guidance on future product developments and protection of intellectual property
- Collaborate with contracts paralegal and internal stakeholders, such as sales, security and privacy, to design and implement contracts team process improvements
Qualifications
- JD and licensed to practice law in at least one state
- Ten or more years of relevant experience
- Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements
- Experience working with healthcare institutions, insurers or benefits within large employers
- At least two years of in-house experience preferred
- Experience working within a technology company preferred
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