Head of Legal

Counsel Health•New York, NY

About The Position

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. 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! 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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