Chief Legal Architect, Health Tech — Equity & Impact

Develop Health Inc.; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 308,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct access to CEO

Equity (early-stage)

Job summary

Develop Health Inc. is hiring our first in-house lawyer to own legal end-to-end as a hands-on practitioner, reporting to the CEO. For at least the first year you’ll be the sole lawyer, with outside counsel on specialist matters.

You’ll review stakeholder agreements, lead negotiations, build templates in Ironclad, and help scale a neutral platform serving PBMs, providers, pharma, payers and patients. This role emphasizes fast, compliant contracting and practical writing to enable rapid product

Qualifications

• You've owned commercial contracts end to end, in-house or as a company's go-to counsel.
• You see systems, not clauses.
• You find the yes. Propose a workable version instead of stopping at no.
• You build templates, triage and self-serve tools to avoid bottlenecks.
• You learn fast—quickly applying unfamiliar regulatory frameworks or business models.

Responsibilities

• Review stakeholder agreements side by side, fix inconsistencies and exposure you find.
• Take over review and redlining of contracts in flight; set turnaround times and escalation rules.
• Build our contract templates, playbooks and fallback positions in Ironclad.
• Lead negotiations as we add new stakeholders.
• Choose and manage outside counsel for corporate, regulatory, IP and employment work; lead the legal side of our next financing.

Skills

Commercial contracts

Systems thinking

Negotiation

Clear writing

Fast learner

Education

Admission to practice law in at least one US state

Tools

Ironclad

Job description

Develop Health Inc. is hiring our first in-house lawyer to own legal end-to-end as a hands-on practitioner, reporting to the CEO. For at least the first year you’ll be the sole lawyer, with outside counsel on specialist matters.

You’ll review stakeholder agreements, lead negotiations, build templates in Ironclad, and help scale a neutral platform serving PBMs, providers, pharma, payers and patients. This role emphasizes fast, compliant contracting and practical writing to enable rapid product