Head of Legal

The role

You will own legal end to end as a hands-on practitioner. You will manage stakeholder agreements, build contract templates, and lead negotiations while working alongside product and engineering teams.

What you will do

• Review stakeholder agreements to fix inconsistencies and exposure
• Take over review and redlining of contracts in flight
• Set turnaround times and escalation rules
• Build contract templates, playbooks and fallback positions in Ironclad
• Lead negotiations as new stakeholders are added
• Choose and manage outside counsel for corporate, regulatory, IP and employment work
• Lead the legal side of the next financing

Required qualifications

• Owned commercial contracts end to end, in-house or as a company's go-to counsel
• Ability to build templates, triage and self-serve tools
• Ability to learn unfamiliar regulatory frameworks or business models quickly
• Clear writing for memos and redlines
• Admission to practice law in at least one US state

Nice to have

• Healthcare regulatory experience: fraud and abuse, HIPAA, or pharmacy and PBM regulation
• Legal work at a marketplace or platform company with many types of customers
• Been a company's first legal hire before

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• A direct line to the CEO
• Ownership of a function from day one

About the company

Develop Health uses AI to accelerate access to life-saving medications by automating healthcare processes. The team consists of founders and engineers who have previously launched and exited successful healthcare startups.