Corporate Counsel

Summary

Join Virta Health as a strategic advisor and key member of the legal team, leading the company's privacy strategy and program. You will partner with various teams to ensure data compliance, develop privacy policies, and provide training. This role requires a strong understanding of data privacy laws, healthcare regulations, and excellent communication skills. You will report to the General Counsel and work collaboratively with other legal team members and stakeholders. Significant opportunity exists to leverage your expertise in privacy and regulatory frameworks. Virta offers a values-driven culture and competitive compensation.

Requirements

• Licensed attorney in at least one U.S. state, with 5+ years privacy experience
• Articulate problem solver with expert knowledge of data privacy and protection laws as well as knowledge of health benefit plans, healthcare regulations, including corporate practice of medicine, telemedicine, fraud and abuse rules
• Extremely practical, business oriented approach to practicing law within a company setting
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate to all organizational levels
• Excellent project management, drafting (clear and streamlined), negotiation and interpersonal skills
• Positive attitude with ownership and accountability mentality
• Values-driven culture

Responsibilities

• Manage the company’s privacy strategy and program
• Track the evolving legal landscape in state and federal government, and provide practical guidance for ongoing compliance
• Develop, evolve and oversee policies and frameworks that enable compliant uses of data throughout the company
• Work closely with the company’s product, engineering, information security and other internal teams on the privacy aspects of our product offerings’ development, implementation and maintenance, as well as related operations and processes of the company
• Track Artificial Intelligence regulations and provide support developing and implementing related compliance measures
• Partner with the company’s sales and procurement teams, including presenting and negotiating privacy and related regulatory positions, and the drafting of same
• Work closely with sales and product teams to field and resolve customer, vendor and other third party inquiries regarding privacy and related regulatory topics
• Provide internal training on privacy matters, effectively translating legal advice into meaningful guidance for innovative business teams

Preferred Qualifications

• You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally
• You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same
• You prioritize positive impact over busy work
• You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience
• You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information
• You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma
• You take risks and rapidly iterate

Benefits

• Security and privacy training will be provided
• Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is $173,921 - $195,750 per year