Commercial Counsel

The Commercial Counsel is an essential member of the legal and corporate compliance team, responsible for negotiating, drafting and reviewing various agreements on behalf of Spring Health. He or she will assist and partner with the legal team on a daily basis to assist with various contracting functions. The successful candidate must be agile, with a demonstrated ability to pivot and manage a workload properly and timely, and able to work as part of a close-knit team in a fast-paced environment of a highly regulated healthcare company.

In addition, the ideal candidate will exemplify Spring Health’s values in their day-to-day work:

1. Members come first: We are genuine member advocates
2. Move fast to change lives: We build with urgency and intention
3. Take ownership: We extend trust and hold ourselves accountable
4. Embrace diverse teams and perspectives: We find strength in diversity of cultural backgrounds, ideas, and experiences
5. Science will win: We will achieve impact by innovation and evidence-based frameworks
6. Candor with care: We are open, honest, and empathetic

Primary Responsibilities for Commercial Counsel: 

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of contracts in support of Spring Health operations and services (which may include confidentiality agreements, consulting agreements, customer agreements and vendor services agreements).
• Work closely and partner with Sales, Strategic Alliances, Marketing, and Customer Success teams on transactions that drive the company’s revenue and in support of our mission.
• Assist Customer Success with client contract administration processes, including handling requests, facilitating notices, tracking renewals, and ensuring appropriate execution of all legal documents.
• Support various teams in negotiations with vendors.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and subject matter experts (e.g., privacy, compliance, regulatory, data security, operations, etc.) throughout the contract process from request to execution. Ensure adherence to contract-related policies and procedures and help troubleshoot and resolve contract issues and challenges.
• Support continuous improvements of forms, policies and processes to help streamline, simplify and automate the contracting processes.

Qualifications for Commercial Counsel:

• Bar membership in good standing in any US state.
• 5+ years of legal experience, preferably advising fast-paced health tech or healthcare entities through various stages of growth, either as in-house or external counsel.
• Experience drafting and reviewing a wide variety of commercial contracts, including NDAs, technology, vendor agreements, and marketing agreements.
• Ability to expeditiously identify and assess issues, evaluate risk and provide legally sound recommendations consistent with good business practices and reason.
• Exceptionally strong business acumen and the ability to work effectively and efficiently on multiple projects in a busy work environment, while being a critical (and often autonomous) go-to partner for fellow peers in the company and legal department.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability over assigned projects and tasks.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, intellectual curiosity, and willingness to grow.
• Exceptional organizational, project management, and prioritization skills.
• Outstanding written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to work with a wide variety of people, at all levels in the organization, in a hypergrowth environment.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of personnel data, proprietary information, and sensitive materials as required.

What Success Looks Like in This Role:

• You build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, with a focus on collaborative problem solving.
• You meet and exceed internal metrics for responsiveness to Company priorities.
• You help empower the Company to make timely and informed decisions during contract negotiations to enable rapid growth.
• You proactively seek feedback and opportunities to be a better partner and advocate on behalf of the Company.

The target base salary range for this position is $184,000 - $230,000, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including stock options and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Spring Health we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

Ready to do the most impactful work of your life? Learn more about our values, how we work, and how hypergrowth meets impact at Spring Health: Our Values

Hypergrowth meets impact

What to expect working here:

• You will be held accountable to an exceptionally high bar and impact
• This may be the fastest work environment you will ever experience in terms of growth, decision-making, and time to impact
• You will be empowered to set your own boundaries and asked to adapt them in critical moments when the company needs you
• You will create processes & products that have never existed before
• You will have very direct conversations and receive continuous feedback to push you to become the most thriving team member and performer you can be
• Change is a constant here: your role, team, responsibilities, and success metrics will shift as the company grows

And…

• You get to be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the field  
• You get to learn and grow at an extremely accelerated pace
• You will experience transparency, integrity, &  humility from leadership 
• You will be empowered to constantly challenge the status quo
• You get the space to experiment & innovate
• You get to make a transformational impact for the company, mental health, and for real human lives — and you will see that impact quickly
• You will become more resourceful and resilient
• You get to be part of a winning team that opens doors in the future

Benefits provided by Spring Health:

Your Total Health:

• Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring Health. You and your dependents also receive an individual One Medical account which is valued at $199/year per user. HSA and FSA plans available
• A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents
• 10 allocated sick days per year
• Flexible paid time off in addition to 12 paid holidays throughout the year
• Access to Gympass, an on-demand virtual benefit that provides wellbeing coaching, and budget management.
• Spring Renewal: When you hit your four-year Springaversary, you’ll be awarded a four week, fully paid, sabbatical leave to renew and recharge. 

You And Your family:

• 4-4.5 months of fully paid parental leave
• Spring Health provides team members and their families with sponsored access to Bright Horizons® child care, back-up care, and elder care.
• Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses

Supporting you financially through:

• Our People team benchmarks all salaries using the Radford Global Compensation Database for technology and life sciences industries. Radford benchmarks salaries with 3,589 global firms, 6.5 million employees, and 98 countries across the globe. We do this to ensure all of our team members are paid equally and competitively.
• On top of competitive and benchmarked salary, Spring Health offers incentive pay (based on role), and equity that begins vesting as we celebrate your first year with the company!
• Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% after 90 days of employment

Creating a culture you can thrive in:

• Flexible work arrangements: 66% of Spring Health team members work fully remote while 33% work in a hybrid model from our New York City offices
• Focus Fridays: no meetings, no distractions, just time for you to get work done.
• Focus Weeks: In Spring 2023, we held our first ever Focus Week, we canceled all non-essential meetings, minimized distractions, and you, our team members, to dive into the key work that gets chopped up or deprioritized during the regular day-to-day. We saw a 36% jump in the average energized score after those five days of flow state work and are finalizing a plan for quarterly Focus Weeks for team members.
• Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement per calendar year.
• $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes

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Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Spring Health we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace

To ensure intentional and equitable hiring practices, we use a balanced candidate slate in our interviews. This approach guarantees that our pool of qualified candidates includes individuals who are underrepresented in our organization at all levels. This is a key performance indicator (KPI) for our recruiting and hiring teams, reported quarterly to maintain accountability.