Head of Legal

Counsel’s mission is to multiply the world's healthcare capacity. We believe in a future in which every person has a personalized, AI-enabled doctor always in their pocket. To accomplish this, we’re building the first fully-vertical, AI-native medical group from the ground up. We’ve redesigned the entire clinical stack with custom AI tools that make our in-house physicians 10x faster and smarter. [learn more on our blog]

Since our founding in 2023, we have formed partnerships with leading healthcare organizations and are on track to serve hundreds of thousands of patients on our platform within the next year. We have raised over $35M from a16z, Google Ventures, Pear VC and other top-tier VC firms.

Our team combines deep expertise in medicine (Harvard, Mt. Sinai, Mass General, UCSF) and technology (MIT, Google, DeepMind, NVIDIA, Stripe, Meta) — and we’re looking for exceptional people to join us as we scale.

Join us as we build the future of AI in healthcare!

-----------------------------------------------------

About The Role

At Counsel Health, we’re building in a space where thoughtful legal guidance is core to how we grow. We’re hiring our founding Head of Legal to help shape the company at an important stage, when strong legal and compliance leadership can unlock growth, protect the business, and make it easier for teams to move quickly with confidence.

This is a foundational role. You’ll work across commercial, corporate, and healthcare regulatory matters, and you’ll help build the legal function from the ground up. You’ll partner closely with leaders across the company to support new commercial deals, navigate the regulatory landscape, and establish the compliance systems we need to scale responsibly.

Reporting to the SVP of Finance & Operations, we’re looking for someone who brings sound judgment, a practical commercial mindset, and a genuine excitement for helping an ambitious company grow in a complex regulatory environment. The right person will know how to balance risk with momentum and will be motivated by building the legal backbone of a company with meaningful impact.

What You'll Do

• Partner with teams across the company on a wide range of legal questions, helping the business move quickly and thoughtfully

• Lead commercial legal work, including customer, vendor, and partner agreements

• Build scalable legal and compliance processes that support growth without creating unnecessary friction

• Own key healthcare regulatory and compliance areas

• Help design the legal and compliance infrastructure behind our insurance billing operations

• Support privacy and information security work tied to customer needs, diligence processes, and future financings

• Support equity and debt financings and help manage broader corporate matters

• Oversee ongoing work across employment, IP, governance, tax, and other core legal responsibilities

• Help define what a great in-house legal function looks like at Counsel Health

What You'll Bring

• Experience early in your career at a top-tier law firm, ideally in a corporate practice

• Deep experience in healthcare, either as counsel to healthtech companies or in-house at a healthcare or healthtech business

• A practical, business-minded approach to legal work

• Strong judgment and the ability to balance risk, speed, and company priorities

• Comfort working independently and owning complex legal matters from start to finish

• Experience managing outside counsel and driving important workstreams forward without close oversight

• Excitement about building systems, processes, and a function from the ground up

Bonus points for:

• Experience being an early legal hire at a startup or scaling company

• Familiarity with insurance billing, healthcare regulatory frameworks, and approval processes

• Experience helping a company grow through new markets, products, or operational complexity

Why this role matters:

Legal will be a key partner in how Counsel Health scales. In this role, you won’t just respond to issues as they arise. You’ll help shape how we operate, how we grow, and how we build trust with customers, partners, and patients. If you’re excited to build, to partner closely with ambitious teams, and to bring clarity to complex questions, we’d love to hear from you.

What We Offer

• Impact: Be at the forefront and contribute to groundbreaking, AI-driven healthcare experiences, directly interface with execs at the world's leading tech & healthcare orgs

• Growth: Significant opportunities for broad ownership and professional development within our rapidly scaling startup

• Compensation: Competitive salary + equity

• Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare, vision + dental, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave

-----------------------------------------------------

Our Values

• Patients come first.
  We are clinicians 1st, technologists 2nd. We act with patient trust/safety at the center of every decision.

• Innovate with optimism.
  We are optimistic as we build the future of care delivery from first principles. Challenge the status quo when needed, no sacred cows.

• Right answer wins.
  Debate openly and pick the strongest path. We optimize for the company, not functions. We win and lose as a team.

• Simplicity over complexity.
  We choose clear, elegant solutions and avoid adding complexity that does not serve patients or the team.

• Do fewer things, well.
  We focus, and hold ourselves to the highest bar and pursue excellence in those areas.

#LI-PINJOB

Recruitment Fraud Notice. Counsel Health only communicates with candidates using official @counselhealth.com email addresses. We will never ask for payment or financial information during the interview process. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from Counsel Health, please contact us at careers@counselhealth.com.

Counsel Health participates in E-Verify. All newly hired employees are processed through the E-Verify system to confirm employment eligibility.