Associate General Counsel, Product
About The Position
Abridge is seeking an Associate General Counsel, Product to serve as a senior legal advisor to teams building its products, with a focus on complex, high-impact initiatives. The role partners closely with product and engineering to align healthcare, privacy, and AI regulatory requirements with commercial and operational goals. The successful candidate will help shape Abridge’s approach to emerging legal issues and develop guidance and systems that enable teams to innovate confidently. The position supports product initiatives from early design through launch and post-launch review, including work in areas where legal precedent is still developing. It also advises on product launches, feature changes, disclosures, marketing claims, regulatory and privacy matters, and emerging laws affecting products and data practices. The role collaborates across business functions and works with outside counsel to deliver practical guidance. The position is based in the San Francisco or New York office, with office attendance on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Requirements
- 10+ years of legal experience, including 6+ years in product counseling.
- Prior in-house experience at a technology company.
- Experience independently owning complex, high-stakes legal matters, especially where there is little settled precedent.
- Sound business judgment and the ability to prioritize risk, balance speed with quality, and identify when specialist expertise is needed.
- Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-legal colleagues, including senior leaders.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with technical, design, and commercial teams.
- Comfort with ambiguity, tight timelines, competing priorities, and a high volume of novel legal questions.
- Creativity in solving novel legal problems, including building processes, language, and frameworks for a fast-moving company in an emerging industry.
- Passion for Abridge’s mission and drive to support fast-moving product and operational teams.
Nice To Haves
- Deep expertise in healthcare regulatory matters, including FDA, FTC, fraud, waste, and abuse laws, health data interoperability, information blocking rules, and related state laws.
- Familiarity with recent AI trends, particularly large language models and responsible AI principles.
- Prior experience at a growth-stage, AI-native, or healthcare technology company.
Responsibilities
- Serve as lead counsel on complex product initiatives from early design through launch and post-launch review, including in areas where the law is developing.
- Shape legal strategy for supported products and features, offering practical paths that account for regulatory, commercial, and operational realities.
- Advise on product launches, feature changes, user-facing disclosures, and marketing claims.
- Partner with product, engineering, policy, partner experience, marketing, IT, finance, corporate development, and commercial teams, including senior leadership, to align on risk and advance initiatives.
- Develop practical legal processes, frameworks, and templates to address recurring issues and scale with the company.
- Provide strategic guidance on regulatory, privacy, and compliance matters, including the evolving AI/ML landscape, and help shape company positions on emerging regulation.
- Flex across the broader Product, Privacy, and Regulatory Legal portfolio as company priorities and risks change.
- Work with outside counsel on specialist issues and translate their advice into actionable business guidance.
- Monitor emerging laws and regulations affecting Abridge’s products and data practices and advise stakeholders on their implications.
Benefits
- 14 paid holidays and flexible PTO for salaried employees; accrued time off for hourly employees.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees and their families.
- Monthly HSA contributions for employees who choose a High Deductible Health Plan.
- Paid parental leave for full-time employees.
- Family-forming resources and financial support.
- 401(k) contribution matching.
- Tax-free personal device allowance.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and commuter benefits.
- Monthly Lifestyle Wallet contributions for fitness, professional development, coworking, and more.
- Access to therapy and coaching.
- Paid sabbatical leave after five years of employment.
- Competitive compensation and equity grants for full-time employees.
- Flexible work hours and ongoing learning opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
