Commercial Counsel

About the role:

As Commercial Counsel, you’ll report directly to the General Counsel, providing pragmatic, strategic, and scalable solutions to legal issues.  We need a driven, collaborative, and organized business partner who can help us identify and resolve complex issues in a user-focused, fast-paced environment.  You’ll negotiate contracts with clients, partners, and vendors, work with legal team members to develop and manage systems and processes that drive excellence and efficiency.  You will also handle emerging legal needs as the company continues to grow.  

Responsibilities:

• Negotiate a variety of agreements in the technology, digital health, and healthcare space, including partnership agreements, MSAs, BAAs, NDAs, and licensing agreements
• Become a trusted, go-to legal advisor to the commercial business functions, collaborating with commercial teams on innovative and compliant deal structures that advance the company’s overall mission and goals
• Remain up-to-date on relevant industry trends, laws and regulations, including laws related to the use of AI/ML in healthcare, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, digital health intellectual property, and data rights
• Responsibly manage outside counsel

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of commercial transactional healthcare experience, including experience in a premier law firm setting. Experience in digital health a plus
• Highly organized, strong project management skills, with the ability to handle and prioritize 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, including related to intellectual property, data rights, HIPAA, FDA, FTC, CMS, and HHS OIG
• 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 receive feedback
• 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