Overview
This role serves as primary General Counsel and strategic legal advisor to the founders and leadership team, helping navigate growth while balancing opportunity, risk, and innovation. The position is designed for a commercially minded operator who views legal as a business function—supporting a high-growth consumer brand by helping the organization move quickly while managing risk effectively.
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary legal advisor across all areas of the business.
- Partner closely with founders and executive leadership on strategic initiatives and business decisions.
- Lead compliance efforts related to CLIA, CAP, FDA, HIPAA, advertising, privacy, marketing, and relevant regulatory requirements.
- Provide guidance on claims substantiation, consumer protection requirements, and risk management.
- Oversee litigation strategy, dispute resolution, and relationships with outside counsel.
- Manage intellectual property, including patents (as applicable), trademarks, licensing, and brand protection initiatives.
- Review and negotiate commercial agreements, vendor contracts, partnership agreements, and corporate transactions.
- Advise product, marketing, operations, and growth teams on legal considerations and business opportunities.
- Develop scalable legal processes, policies, and frameworks to support company growth.
- Balance speed, innovation, and risk in a fast-moving startup environment.
Requirements
- 10+ years of legal experience, including significant experience supporting consumer-facing businesses.
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership.
- Experience advising high-growth consumer, healthcare, wellness, subscription, ecommerce, or regulated businesses.
- Deep understanding of CLIA, CAP, HIPAA, FDA, marketing, and consumer protection regulations.
- Strong experience managing claims substantiation and regulatory review processes.
- Experience overseeing litigation, class action matters, and outside counsel.
- Strong commercial contracting and negotiation experience.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a strategic business partner to founders and executive teams.
- Excellent judgment and ability to balance legal risk with business objectives.
- Comfortable operating autonomously in fast-paced, evolving environments.
- Strong communication skills and ability to simplify complex legal issues for non-legal audiences.
- Experience serving as General Counsel or Associate General Counsel at a high-growth consumer brand.
- Experience supporting healthcare, diagnostics, wellness, supplements, or health technology companies.
- Experience navigating M&A transactions and corporate development initiatives.
- Experience supporting venture-backed startups through periods of rapid growth.
- Prior experience at a top law firm.
Compensation & Benefits
- Highly competitive base salary.
- Meaningful equity aligned with the scope and impact of the role.
- Flexible, remote-first work environment.
- Generous Paid Time Off and company holidays.
- 401(k).
- Monthly membership with full access to at-home blood testing and personalized health insights.
- Healthcare with monthly premium fully covered by the business.
Location
Flexible, remote-first work environment.