Healthcare Regulatory Counsel

GoodRx•CA HQ, CA

7d•$142,000 - $305,000

About The Position

GoodRx is seeking a Healthcare Regulatory Counsel to independently handle complex legal matters spanning employee benefits contracts, healthcare regulatory product reviews, and artificial intelligence initiatives. The role provides practical legal guidance to help teams evaluate risk, structure agreements, and responsibly bring products and programs to market. As a senior individual contributor with no direct reports, the Counsel applies broad expertise across related legal disciplines, leads reviews from intake through resolution, and helps prioritize competing projects. The role partners with business leaders and legal colleagues to resolve novel issues, develop scalable review processes, and escalate significant risks or matters requiring specialized expertise.

Requirements

Juris Doctor from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar, with eligibility to practice in the jurisdiction required for the role.
At least 8 years of relevant legal experience in a law firm, in-house legal department, or a combination, including substantial healthcare regulatory counseling and commercial contract drafting and negotiation.
Experience reviewing employee benefits vendor or service agreements and identifying issues requiring specialized benefits, privacy, or security expertise.
Experience advising healthcare, digital health, or technology businesses on product development, commercial arrangements, and applicable regulatory requirements.
Ability to independently manage complex, novel matters, evaluate incomplete information, and provide clear, practical recommendations with sound escalation judgment.
Strong negotiation, legal research, writing, and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and build effective cross-functional relationships.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize a varied workload, coordinate multiple reviewers, and improve legal processes in a fast-moving environment.

Nice To Haves

In-house experience at a healthcare technology, pharmacy, telehealth, or consumer healthcare company.
Experience evaluating AI-enabled products, enterprise AI tools, or AI vendor agreements and supporting AI governance processes.
Familiarity with employee benefits frameworks, including ERISA, and healthcare privacy requirements, including HIPAA, as relevant to contracts and product reviews.
Familiarity with third-party benefits administration.

Responsibilities

Independently draft, review, and negotiate employee benefits vendor and service agreements, amendments, and renewals in partnership with Total Rewards, Procurement, Finance, and other stakeholders, addressing service commitments, fees, data use, confidentiality, liability, indemnification, termination, and compliance obligations.
Identify benefits-related regulatory and contractual issues, coordinate with privacy and security partners, and engage specialized benefits counsel on complex plan, tax, or fiduciary matters as appropriate.
Lead healthcare regulatory legal reviews of new and existing products, features, programs, and partnerships from concept through launch, translating complex requirements into clear recommendations, practical alternatives, and safeguards.
Assess applicable federal and state healthcare requirements involving pharmacy, telehealth, professional licensure, corporate practice of medicine, healthcare fraud and abuse, referral arrangements, and consumer-facing healthcare activities; coordinate with subject matter experts as needed.
Review proposed AI tools, vendors, features, and use cases with Product, Engineering, Privacy, Information Security, and Compliance, evaluating healthcare regulatory implications, intended use, data handling, transparency, human oversight, and contractual protections.
Help develop and apply AI review criteria and approval processes; document recommendations and escalate novel, high-impact, or unresolved risks to appropriate legal leaders and business decision makers.
Triage incoming contracts and regulatory projects by clarifying scope, identifying risks and dependencies, recommending priorities, and coordinating ownership across legal and business teams; manage assigned matters through completion and communicate status and timing.
Exercise independent judgment on significant and ambiguous issues, explain tradeoffs to diverse stakeholders, and recommend actionable paths that support business objectives and appropriate risk management.
Monitor relevant legal and regulatory developments, assess implications for GoodRx, and recommend updates to contracts, product requirements, internal guidance, and review practices.
Develop templates, contract playbooks, review checklists, and training to improve consistency and efficiency; serve as a trusted subject matter resource and contribute to cross-functional initiatives and other legal matters as needed.
Review and comply with Company safety and security policies and procedures, remain vigilant for potential security threats, and proactively communicate concerns to the Security Team.