Job Description

Senior Counsel, Health Tech

Remote — United States | Contract with Potential Full-Time Conversion

A rapidly growing, venture-backed, AI-native law firm is seeking an experienced healthcare regulatory attorney to advise early-stage and high-growth health-tech companies. This is an urgent contract opportunity created by active client demand, with the potential to transition into a full-time position as the practice continues to grow.

The engagement is expected to begin at approximately 25 hours per week at $110–$120 per hour Candidates who are primarily interested in a full-time opportunity are still encouraged to apply.

The Opportunity

You will serve as a trusted legal advisor to health-tech founders and operating teams, providing practical guidance across HIPAA, healthcare contracting, FDA and digital-health regulatory matters. You will work directly with clients, own matters from beginning to end and help build the firm’s health-tech capabilities.

For the right person, this offers a meaningful opportunity to shape and potentially lead a growing health-tech practice.

Responsibilities

• Advise health-tech clients on HIPAA, healthcare compliance, digital-health regulation and related operational matters
• Draft, review and negotiate business associate agreements and other healthcare-specific contracts
• Counsel founders and product teams on FDA and digital-health regulatory frameworks
• Translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, business-oriented guidance
• Develop and improve BAA templates, healthcare agreements, playbooks and precedent libraries
• Create practical healthcare guidance for the firm’s internal knowledge systems
• Develop training materials and lead educational sessions for other attorneys
• Collaborate within AI-enabled legal workflows to improve the speed and consistency of service delivery
• Build direct, trusted relationships with clients and internal stakeholders

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• Active U.S. bar membership in good standing
• At least eight years of focused healthcare regulatory or health-tech transactional experience
• Deep knowledge of HIPAA and health-information privacy requirements
• Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating BAAs and healthcare-specific agreements
• Meaningful experience advising digital-health, telehealth, healthcare technology or medical-device companies
• Working knowledge of FDA and digital-health regulatory frameworks
• Ability to communicate complex legal issues clearly to founders and business teams
• Current, practical experience using AI or modern legal-technology tools
• Willingness to share expertise, develop templates and help train other attorneys
• Based in the United States and authorized to work without sponsorship

Preferred Backgrounds

Strong candidates may come from one or more of the following environments:

• A leading healthcare, life-sciences or digital-health law practice
• An in-house legal role at an early-stage or high-growth health-tech company
• A healthcare regulatory position with the FDA, HHS, CMS or another relevant government agency
• A fractional, outside-counsel or consulting practice serving health-tech companies

Government attorneys with deep regulatory knowledge and sufficient practical advisory experience are encouraged to apply.

Engagement and Compensation

Initial contract engagement

• $110–$120 per hour
• Approximately 25 hours per week
• Remote within the United States
• Potential transition to full-time based on client demand and mutual fit

Potential full-time compensation

• $200,000–$240,000 base salary
• Meaningful equity
• Fully covered health and dental insurance
• 401(k) with a 5% employer match
• 16 weeks of parental leave
• Unlimited PTO
• Remote-first environment with annual in-person offsites

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Join a venture-backed firm built around AI-native legal workflows
• Work directly with innovative health-tech founders and leadership teams
• Focus entirely on sophisticated healthcare and digital-health matters
• Avoid traditional billable-hour requirements and junior handoffs
• Help create the templates, systems and strategy for a new practice area
• Position yourself to lead and scale the health-tech practice as client demand grows