Job description
About Hello Heart:
Hello Heart is on a mission to change the way people care for their hearts. The company provides the first app and connected heart monitor to help people track and manage their heart health. With Hello Heart, users take steps to control their risk of heart attacks and stroke – the leading cause of death in the United States. Peer-reviewed studies have shown that high-risk users of Hello Heart have seen meaningful drops in blood pressure, cholesterol and even weight. Recognized as the digital leader in preventive heart health, Hello Heart is trusted by more than 130 leading Fortune 500 and government employers, national health plans, and labor organizations. Founded in 2013, Hello Heart has raised more than $138 million from top venture firms and is a best-in-class solution on the American Heart Association’s Innovators’ Network and CVS Health Point Solutions Management platform. Visit www.helloheart.com for more information.
As Associate General Counsel, Commercial, you’ll report directly to the General Counsel, providing commercially-minded strategic and scalable solutions to legal issues. We need an innovative, collaborative, and organized partner who can help us identify and resolve complex issues in a user-focused, fast-paced environment. You’ll wear many hats – from reviewing contracts with health plans, partners, and vendors, to developing and managing systems and processes that drive efficiency and compliance, to handling the emerging needs of a growing company.
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and support across a wide variety of legal and business needs at a rapidly growing, dynamic startup
- Partner with internal stakeholders to build efficient processes for the commercial and compliance functions, including through the creation and maintenance of playbooks, templates, self-help workflows, and document management systems
- Negotiate a variety of agreements in the technology, digital health, and healthcare space, including partnership agreements, data agreements, MSAs, BAAs, and technology licensing agreements
- Undertake special projects and investigations to enable new business growth
- Become a trusted, go-to legal advisor who advances the company’s overall mission and goals while identifying and mitigating legal risks among a distributed workforce
- Remain up-to-date on relevant industry trends, laws and regulations to ensure an ongoing ability to provide sound compliance advice
- Responsibly manage outside counsel
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of commercial/technology/IP transactional or regulatory experience, including experience in a premier law firm setting. Experience in-house in healthcare, medical devices, or digital health preferred.
- Highly organized, strong project management skills, with the ability to handle multiple matters simultaneously in an entrepreneurial, dynamic environment
- Experience drafting and negotiating legal documents of varying levels of complexity
- Solid judgment in identifying key risks, finding elegant solutions, and working with business colleagues to appropriately mitigate risk to achieve the organization’s commercial goals
- Significant exposure to key regulatory and contractual issues in the digital health space, such as HIPAA, FDA, FTC, healthcare compliance, and intellectual property
- Team player, willing and able to pitch in across wide variety of legal and business needs, where no job is too big or too small
- Growth-minded with demonstrated ability to rapidly absorb and internalize new information and processes
- Excited to help conceptualize and build key capabilities and processes at rapidly growing startup
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, effective in a distributed environment
- JD from accredited U.S. law school; licensed in good standing with a state bar
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $230,000.00 to $270,000.00. Salary ranges are determined by role and level. Compensation is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the annual salary and bonus only, and do not include equity or benefits.
Hello Heart has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture - we look for people who are collaborative, creative, and courageous. Oh, and if you want to see some recent evidence of the fun things we do at Hello Heart, check out our Instagram page.
