Associate General Counsel, Commercial

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Hello Heart is seeking an Associate General Counsel, Commercial to partner with our General Counsel on strategic and scalable legal solutions for a fast-growing digital health company in the United States.

You will lead negotiations of technology, data, and healthcare agreements, develop playbooks and templates, manage outside counsel, and ensure compliance with HIPAA, FDA, FTC. JD from a U.S. law school and bar admission required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of commercial/technology/IP transactional or regulatory experience, including premier law firm background.
• Experience in healthcare, medical devices, or digital health preferred.
• Strong project management and organizational skills, ability to handle multiple matters in a fast-paced startup.
• Experience drafting and negotiating complex legal documents.
• Significant regulatory knowledge in HIPAA, FDA, FTC, healthcare compliance, and IP.

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 commercial and compliance functions, including playbooks, templates, workflows, and document management systems.
• Negotiate agreements in technology, digital health, and healthcare space (partnerships, data agreements, MSAs, BAAs, tech licensing).
• Undertake special projects and investigations to enable new business growth.
• Serve as trusted legal advisor, mitigate risks in a distributed workforce, and advance company mission.
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends and regulatory changes to provide sound compliance advice.
• Manage outside counsel effectively.

Skills

Commercial transactions

Regulatory compliance

Negotiation

Contract drafting

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

JD from accredited U.S. law school

Job description

About Hello Heart:

Hello Heart is on a mission to make heart attacks a thing of the past.

We’re an AI company focused exclusively on heart health, building a platform that predicts and prevents cardiac events before they happen - identifying risk up to 10 days in advance versus 10 years in traditional clinical models.

This is already working at scale. Hello Heart has been shown to reduce inpatient hospital days by 47% and deliver ~$1,800 in annual savings per member. Hello Heart is the cardiac prevention partner to over 80% of large U.S. health plans and serves hundreds of public and private employers.

We’re defining how the #1 cause of death - heart disease is managed in the AI era. Join us.

As Associate General Counsel, Commercial, you’ll report directly to the General Counsel, providing commercially-minded strategic and scalable solutions to legal issues. We need an innovative, collaborative, and organized partner who can help us identify and resolve complex issues in a user-focused, fast-paced environment. You’ll wear many hats - from reviewing contracts with health plans, partners, and vendors, to developing and managing systems and processes that drive efficiency and compliance, to handling the emerging needs of a growing company.

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

Qualifications:

• 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

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $230,000.00 to $270,000.00. Salary ranges are determined by role and level. Compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the annual salary and bonus only, and do not include equity or benefits.

Hello Heart has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture - we look for people who are collaborative, creative, and courageous. Oh, and if you want to see some recent evidence of the fun things we do at Hello Heart, check out our Instagram page.