Overview
This role supports expanding commercial operations and a comprehensive healthcare compliance framework within a healthcare technology organization focused on heart disease diagnostics and related software solutions.
This position serves as a key legal partner across commercial sales, marketing, regulatory, market access, scientific affairs, and executive leadership. The role structures commercial relationships, manages healthcare regulatory risk, and builds scalable legal processes. Responsibilities combine hands-on commercial contracting with healthcare compliance counseling.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate agreements with health systems, physician practices, imaging providers, payors, channel partners, and vendors, including:
- Master service agreements
- Business associate agreements
- Data-use agreements
- Strategic partnerships
- Draft, review, and negotiate research agreements with external sponsors, including:
- Clinical trial agreements
- Research grant agreements
- Investigator-initiated agreements
- Core lab services
- Data licensing agreements
- Advise internal teams (including commercial, scientific affairs, and regulatory functions) on compliance strategies, policies, and practices based on relevant healthcare laws, guidance documents/opinions, and industry codes, including (as applicable):
- FDCA
- Fraud and abuse laws
- Anti-Kickback Statute
- False Claims Act
- Sunshine Act
- HIPAA
- FDA guidance documents
- OIG advisory opinions
- Assess commercial arrangements involving healthcare professionals, including consulting, advisory, educational, and research relationships
- Counsel on privacy matters, including permissible data uses for strategic initiatives and application of privacy laws (including HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other state data privacy laws) to:
- Current business processes
- New product development
- Research collaborations
- Commercial relationships
- Develop and oversee implementation of policies for healthcare and privacy law compliance, privacy management, and data governance
- Lead collaboration with information security on data security initiatives, risk management, third-party audits/certifications, and vendor assessments
- Prepare for potential cybersecurity or privacy incidents
- Provide ad hoc legal support on other legal department projects as needed (e.g., employment law; litigation)
Requirements
- JD degree from an ABA-accredited law school
- Active state bar admission
- 8+ years of relevant legal and compliance experience at a law firm or in-house
- Healthcare industry experience required (medical device, pharma, or life sciences)
- Combination of major law firm and in-house experience, including substantial healthcare regulatory counseling and commercial contracting
- Strong knowledge of healthcare compliance, including:
- Healthcare fraud and abuse laws
- FDA promotional requirements
- Advamed principles
- HCP/HCO interactions
- HIPAA, transparency, and privacy requirements
- Experience developing compliance processes and scalable contracting tools in a growth-stage business
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently within a lean legal team
- Strong legal analysis, business judgment, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to translate complex legal requirements into clear, practical recommendations and to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships
Preferred Qualifications
- In-house experience at a healthcare technology, medical device, diagnostic, digital health, or other regulated healthcare company
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary range: $225,000–$265,000
- This role is eligible for a 15% target annual bonus.
- Total Target Compensation (TTC): Includes total cash compensation (including base pay, variable pay, commission, bonuses, etc.). Stock options, paid benefits, and employee perks are part of total rewards.
- Base salary range varies by location and is aligned to market benchmarks:
- Candidates in higher-cost labor markets including California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC are aligned to the middle to high end of the range.
- Candidates in all other U.S. locations are aligned to the low to middle end of the range.
- Final compensation is determined based on location, experience, skills, and internal equity.
Location
- Fully remote.
- Occasional travel required for team meetings and cross-functional projects, typically once per month or once per quarter. For this role, travel is not described as a percentage.
- Office locations include Denver, Colorado; New York, New York; Dallas, Texas; and Lisbon, Portugal (some roles may require being on-site in a location).