Head of Legal

Counsel Health

Head of Legal overseeing legal operations at Counsel Health and partnering with teams. Building legal infrastructure and compliance processes for a healthcare-focused company.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with teams across the company on a wide range of legal questions, helping the business move quickly and thoughtfully
Lead commercial legal work, including customer, vendor, and partner agreements
Build scalable legal and compliance processes that support growth without creating unnecessary friction
Own key healthcare regulatory and compliance areas
Help design the legal and compliance infrastructure behind our insurance billing operations
Support privacy and information security work tied to customer needs, diligence processes, and future financings
Support equity and debt financings and help manage broader corporate matters
Oversee ongoing work across employment, IP, governance, tax, and other core legal responsibilities
Help define what a great in-house legal function looks like at Counsel Health

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience early in your career at a top-tier law firm, ideally in a corporate practice
Deep experience in healthcare, either as counsel to healthtech companies or in-house at a healthcare or healthtech business
A practical, business-minded approach to legal work
Strong judgment and the ability to balance risk, speed, and company priorities
Comfort working independently and owning complex legal matters from start to finish
Experience managing outside counsel and driving important workstreams forward without close oversight
Excitement about building systems, processes, and a function from the ground up
Bonus points for: Experience being an early legal hire at a startup or scaling company, Familiarity with insurance billing, healthcare regulatory frameworks, and approval processes, Experience helping a company grow through new markets, products, or operational complexity

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive healthcare
Vision + dental
401K
Unlimited PTO
Parental Leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

Contract NegotiationLegal ResearchCompliance FrameworksInsurance BillingCorporate GovernanceEmployment LawIntellectual Property LawTax LawRisk ManagementDiligence Processes

Soft Skills

Strong JudgmentBusiness-Minded ApproachIndependent WorkProblem SolvingCollaboration