Forus
Senior Counsel
New York office. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will serve as a key legal partner to stakeholders across the business. You will advise on legal and compliance matters, draft commercial agreements, and lead privacy and HIPAA counseling.
What you will do
- Advise stakeholders on legal and compliance matters across healthcare, clinical operations, marketing, privacy, and data governance.
- Draft and negotiate commercial agreements and develop related playbooks, templates, and escalation guidance.
- Develop scalable legal guidance, policies, templates, and AI-enabled workflows.
- Own and maintain core platform agreements including provider Terms of Service, privacy notices, and website terms.
- Lead day-to-day privacy and HIPAA counseling.
- Partner with the compliance team to advance the healthcare compliance program.
Required qualifications
- 6+ years of legal experience in commercial contracts and business counseling
- J.D.
- active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
- Experience independently handling complex commercial matters
- Meaningful experience with privacy and healthcare regulatory matters, including HIPAA/HITECH, data use and sharing, business associate agreements, and privacy requests or incidents
- Outstanding written and verbal communication
- Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
- High NPS with your former teammates
Nice to have
- Healthcare and ideally health-tech experience
- law-firm and in-house experience
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance
- Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- 16 weeks of parental leave
- 401K plan setup
- FSA option
- commuter benefits
- DashPass
- Lunch at the office every day
- Dinner at the office after 6:30 pm
About the company
Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients. The platform automates complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment.