Overview
A rapidly growing veterinary telemedicine and pet healthcare company is seeking a Vice President of Legal to lead its legal function during a period of significant scaling. This leadership role requires a strategic and hands-on legal executive who can navigate complex regulatory environments and serve as a trusted business partner to the executive team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the legal function across corporate, regulatory, commercial, product, privacy, employment, litigation, and compliance matters
- Advise the CEO, executive team, and board on key business, regulatory, and risk decisions
- Collaborate with clinical, pharmacy, product, operations, marketing, finance, people, and growth teams to ensure compliant and scalable execution
- Develop legal strategies related to veterinary telemedicine, veterinary-client-patient relationship (VCPR), pharmacy operations, prescribing, and state-by-state regulatory compliance
- Support regulatory advocacy efforts to expand access to virtual veterinary care across the United States
- Build legal frameworks to enable new product launches, geographic expansion, new business lines, and platform growth
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements including vendor contracts, strategic partnerships, pharmacy-related agreements, marketing agreements, and data/privacy agreements
- Provide legal guidance on product and marketing initiatives, including claims review, consumer protection, advertising compliance, subscription practices, and customer disclosures
- Oversee corporate governance, board materials, financing support, equity matters, cap table administration, and investor-related legal work
- Manage employment legal matters in partnership with the People team, including policies, employee relations, offer documentation, separations, and compliance with employment laws
- Develop and scale internal legal processes, templates, policies, approval workflows, and playbooks
- Manage outside counsel efficiently across regulatory, corporate, employment, litigation, pharmacy, privacy, and other specialized areas
- Identify and mitigate legal and regulatory risks proactively without impeding business progress
- Prepare the organization for future scale, including strategic transactions, financing events, audits, and potential public-company readiness
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school
- Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
- Experience advising regulated consumer, healthcare, telehealth, pharmacy, marketplace, subscription, fintech, insurance, or similarly complex businesses
- Strong regulatory judgment with the ability to interpret state-by-state requirements in practical, business-oriented ways
- Proven experience partnering with executive teams and advising senior leaders on high-stakes legal, regulatory, and commercial decisions
- Excellent commercial contract drafting and negotiation skills
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving startup environment balancing rigor and practicality
- Strong understanding of privacy, marketing, consumer protection, employment, and corporate governance issues relevant to consumer healthcare
- Experience building scalable legal processes including templates, playbooks, workflows, and training
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex legal issues clearly to non-lawyers
- Strong project management skills managing multiple workstreams, outside counsel, and business priorities simultaneously
- High integrity, sound judgment, and a bias toward finding legally sound paths to "yes"
- Collaborative, low-ego leadership style with a willingness to roll up sleeves
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with telehealth, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, digital health, consumer healthcare, or healthcare marketplaces
- Familiarity with VCPR, veterinary board regulations, pharmacy boards, prescribing regulations, or state healthcare regulatory frameworks
- Experience supporting legislative, regulatory, or policy advocacy efforts
- Experience building or scaling a legal function at a venture-backed or growth-stage company
- Experience managing compliance programs, privacy programs, or regulated product launches across multiple states
- Familiarity with subscription businesses, consumer marketplaces, direct-to-consumer healthcare, or pet health
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary range: $225,000 - $275,000, equity, and benefits (actual compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location)
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible paid time off
- Remote-first work culture
Location
Remote-first position with flexibility
This role offers the opportunity to lead legal strategy at the intersection of veterinary medicine, telemedicine, pharmacy, consumer healthcare, and technology, helping to expand access to veterinary care nationwide while building scalable legal infrastructure for a fast-growing business.