Senior Counsel (Healthcare Regulatory, Privacy & Employment)

Overview

A healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Counsel specializing in Healthcare Regulatory, Privacy, and Employment law. This full-time remote role reports to the Chief Legal Officer and supports clinical, operational, people, product, and commercial teams. The position involves advising on complex legal and regulatory matters in a high-growth digital health environment focused on virtual care for midlife women's health.

Responsibilities

Healthcare Regulatory & Clinical Operations

• Provide legal advice on federal and state healthcare regulations impacting virtual care clinics, clinicians, patients, and supplement-related activities.
• Monitor and counsel on telehealth, licensing, scope of practice, corporate practice of medicine, fee splitting, prescribing, pharmacy operations, compounded products, and patient communications.
• Support regulatory analysis related to hormone therapy, non-hormonal medications, supplements, compounded cosmetics, clinical protocols, patient education, marketing claims, and consumer materials.
• Collaborate with Clinical and Operations teams on clinician onboarding, licensing, credentialing, supervision, delegation, medical governance, and regulatory documentation.
• Advise on partnerships with health plans, employers, benefits platforms, pharmacies, laboratories, and other healthcare entities.
• Coordinate with external healthcare regulatory counsel on specialized or high-risk matters and manage implementation.

Privacy, Data Protection & Security

• Advise on HIPAA, state health privacy laws, consumer privacy, marketing privacy, digital health data, and data-sharing agreements.
• Review and negotiate business associate agreements, data processing agreements, privacy addenda, security exhibits, patient notices, vendor terms, and clinical data-use provisions.
• Support privacy-by-design reviews for products, websites, patient tools, marketing, analytics, AI, and new business models.
• Partner with Information Security, Product, Engineering, and Operations on incident response, breach analysis, data retention, and regulatory inquiries.
• Maintain privacy guidance, templates, playbooks, and training for business and clinical stakeholders.

Employment & Workforce Matters

• Advise People and business leaders on employment agreements, offer letters, contractor arrangements, restrictive covenants, separations, workplace policies, investigations, and employee relations.
• Counsel on wage-and-hour issues, worker classification, leave, accommodations, workplace conduct, pay practices, and multistate workforce compliance.
• Support legal aspects of clinician employment and contractor relationships, including licensing, supervision, confidentiality, intellectual property, and professional obligations.
• Coordinate with external employment counsel on investigations, agency matters, executive issues, and specialized topics.

Compliance, Policy & Legal Operations

• Develop and maintain compliance policies, procedures, training, risk assessments, and monitoring programs.
• Translate legal and regulatory requirements into clear guidance, approval workflows, and operational controls.
• Maintain regulatory trackers, matter summaries, escalation protocols, and documentation standards.
• Create templates, playbooks, and self-service guidance for recurring legal questions.
• Support legal department initiatives involving legal technology, contract workflows, knowledge management, and responsible AI use.

Cross-Functional Legal Advice

• Serve as a trusted legal partner to Clinical, Operations, Product, Marketing, People, Finance, Information Security, Commercial, and Executive Leadership teams.
• Provide clear recommendations distinguishing routine matters from those requiring executive or outside counsel escalation.
• Research and monitor legal, regulatory, and enforcement developments affecting digital health and women’s healthcare.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar (California bar membership preferred).
• Minimum 8 years of legal practice experience.
• Substantive healthcare regulatory and privacy experience, including HIPAA and state health privacy laws.
• Experience advising healthcare providers, digital health platforms, telehealth businesses, health plans, or healthcare-focused law firms.
• Background working in-house at a digital health or healthcare company, at a major law firm, or both.
• Experience supporting multistate or remote clinical and employee workforces.
• Proficiency in responsibly using artificial intelligence tools to enhance efficiency and work quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in women’s health, virtual care, menopause care, pharmacy/prescription products, or consumer health products.
• Familiarity with FDA, DEA, FTC, OCR, state medical boards, or state nursing boards.
• Proven ability to build compliance programs, legal playbooks, and operational workflows from the ground up.

Key Competencies

• Commercial mindset with the ability to balance legal risk and business goals.
• Strong prioritization, issue-spotting, and organizational skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills to simplify complex legal concepts for non-lawyers and executive leadership.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $195,000 - $225,000 per year, determined by experience, skills, location, qualifications, and internal equity.
• Eligibility for equity and benefits.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible paid time off.
• New-hire home office equipment stipend plus monthly remote work stipend.

Location

• Remote position within the United States.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship needs.

Equal Opportunity

The employer is committed to pay equity and provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Compensation is based on fair, objective criteria and role impact, independent of salary history.