Head of Litigation

The role

The Head of Litigation will own affirmative and defensive legal disputes to protect and expand the company's freedom to operate. This includes managing regulatory enforcement, commercial disputes, and building legal infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own affirmative disputes from theory and factual development to regulatory complaints and litigation
• Build the record through strategies, investigations, preservation, and data analysis
• Run the regulatory-enforcement track including HIPAA and antitrust authorities
• Defend the company across commercial, customer, and other disputes
• Own outside counsel selection, scope, and budget
• Translate disputes into commercial outcomes with the CEO and Legal and Policy teams
• Build legal infrastructure including litigation holds, discovery readiness, and matter tracking
• Keep leadership calibrated with honest assessments and sophisticated reasoning

Required qualifications

• 12+ years litigating complex commercial disputes, with first-chair experience
• Experience on the initiating side building cases
• Resourceful and frugal
• Strong judgment
• Strong writer
• Credible with engineers
• Fast
• Philosophical alignment with the Stedi Standards
• JD
• Membership in at least one U.S. state bar

Nice to have

• Healthcare and technology backgrounds
• Deep experience in another heavily regulated, complex industry (financial services, payments, insurance, telecom)

About the company

Stedi is a headless clearinghouse and RCM engine that provides modern, AI-ready APIs for healthcare technology businesses. The company has $142 million in funding from investors including Stripe, Addition, USV, Bloomberg Beta, and First Round Capital.