Virtahealth
General Counsel
Remote. Posted 5 months ago
The role
The General Counsel will oversee all legal affairs of the company and partner with executive leadership and the Board. This person will lead the legal team, manage enterprise risk, and help prepare the organization for public company scale.
What you will do
- Lead and develop Virta’s Legal team
- Serve as a strategic advisor to the executive team and Board
- Partner with Commercial, Product, Clinical, People, Finance, and Operations teams
- Lead all corporate legal matters including governance, financing, and litigation
- Oversee healthcare regulatory and compliance strategy
- Help prepare the organization for future public company requirements
- Support complex commercial contracting
- Build scalable legal processes and infrastructure
- Modernize the legal function through AI-enabled tools
- Manage and develop outside counsel relationships
Required qualifications
- Significant legal leadership experience within a high-growth, venture-backed technology or healthcare company
- Experience serving as General Counsel or senior legal leader at a company with $200M+ in revenue and meaningful operational complexity
- Strong commercial orientation
- Experience supporting IPO readiness or operating within a public company legal environment
- Strong executive presence
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Proven track record of architecting durable AI systems
- Ability to operate hands-on when needed
- Experience building and leading high performing Legal teams
- JD required
- Based in or willing to spend meaningful time in the SF Bay Area or Denver
Nice to have
- strong academic credentials
- meaningful healthcare industry experience, including familiarity with healthcare regulatory environments
About the company
Virta Health is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people through technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery. The company has raised over $350 million and partners with health plans, employers, and government organizations.