Senior Product And Regulatory Counsel

Summary

Join Cedar as a Senior Product & Regulatory Counsel and provide expert legal advice on healthcare, payments, and data privacy. Collaborate with product and business teams to mitigate legal risks and develop efficient processes. Contribute to improving product counseling, review marketing materials, and assist with contract negotiations. This role requires a JD, 5+ years of relevant experience, and a strong understanding of healthcare regulations and technology. Cedar offers a competitive salary, equity, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• JD Degree from an accredited law school and license in good standing to practice law in at least one state bar
• 5+ years relevant legal experience at a top law firm and/or in-house in healthcare/healthtech, collections and/or payments. Previous healthcare regulatory and tech experience is required
• Strong foundation in product counseling, marketing, and technology applications, as well as the capacity and desire to be a generalist and learn new areas of law and legal skills quickly
• Ability to hear and answer questions that aren't asked and translate technical and regulatory concerns into answers and guidance understandable to non-lawyers
• Keen business and legal judgment
• Self-starter, who exhibits a “can do” attitude and excels at building solid, collaborative working relationships across teams

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end product counseling from initial product development stages
• Collaborate with product and business teams to identify potential legal risks and provide risk-mitigation counseling
• Contribute to the development of processes to improve the product counseling function
• Be attentive to upcoming changes in the industry and help Cedar determine how to react to them
• Collaborate with other Legal & Compliance Team members and stakeholders on product, regulatory & compliance issues
• Assist implementation teams to integrate the platform with large customer and vendor systems
• Review marketing and other communications relating to products
• Assist with negotiation of product and regulatory aspects of client, vendor and partnership agreements
• Contribute as a team player to help further the status of the Legal & Compliance department

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in the unique privacy and regulatory considerations applicable to healthcare and payments, including as they relate to the use of AI and machine learning in product- and operations-related processes
• Experience working for a company offering platform services to large healthcare entities

Benefits

• Salary Range*: $221,000 - $270,000
• Equity
• Competitive benefits and wellness package
• Flexibility to work from home or in the office
• Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives
• Competitive pay
• Health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources