Deputy General Counsel, Healthcare

The role

The Deputy General Counsel leads legal work across the healthcare portfolio. This role involves managing regulatory, privacy, and commercial legal work for incubated companies.

What you will do

• Lead legal work for healthcare companies
• Manage regulatory, privacy, and commercial legal work
• Perform HIPAA and data-flow analysis
• Negotiate BAAs and key commercial agreements
• Pressure-test referral or compensation arrangements against Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark
• Own healthcare regulatory and privacy questions including state health privacy laws and health data use
• Manage fraud and abuse issues including Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark, and beneficiary inducement
• Handle telehealth and licensure matters
• Manage commercial contracting and corporate work for early-stage companies
• Manage and develop other lawyers

Required qualifications

• J.D. and currently licensed to practice and in good standing in your U.S. jurisdiction
• 12+ years of healthcare legal experience, including substantial in-house time
• Demonstrated track record of running regulatory and commercial workstreams independently
• At least 5 years working with health tech or digital healthcare companies
• Direct responsibility for regulatory and privacy compliance
• Experience managing and developing other lawyers, including setting priorities across a team and reviewing their work
• Deep, hands-on command of HIPAA and state health privacy laws, BAAs and health data use, and healthcare fraud and abuse rules (Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark, beneficiary inducement)
• Sound, independent judgment under pressure
• Team-oriented, high-energy, and proactive

Nice to have

• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a range of commercial contracts (e.g., vendor, SaaS, services)
• Familiarity with telehealth, clinical operations, reimbursement, or FDA-regulated products
• Experience with venture financings, equity incentive plans, and sell-side M&A
• Experience with venture studio or incubation models, or standing up a legal function at early-stage companies
• Experience supporting venture-backed or high-growth startups
• Experience using AI legal tech or other productivity tools

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement
• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind
• Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux

About the company

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security.