Associate General Counsel, Commercial

Summary

Join Hello Heart as Associate General Counsel, Commercial, reporting directly to the General Counsel. You will provide commercially-minded strategic and scalable solutions to legal issues, partnering with internal stakeholders to build efficient processes. Negotiate various agreements in technology, digital health, and healthcare. Undertake special projects and investigations to enable new business growth, and become a trusted legal advisor. Stay updated on industry trends, laws, and regulations, and responsibly manage outside counsel. The role requires 7+ years of experience and a JD from an accredited U.S. law school.

Requirements

• 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

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

Benefits

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $230,000.00 to $270,000.00