Senior Corporate Counsel, Product

Abridge • San Francisco, CA

7d • $188,000 - $221,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Abridge’s in-house legal team is a group of lawyers and legal professionals operating across multiple disciplines. As we continue to expand, we are looking for a practical, versatile product lawyer to join our growing legal team. The right person can identify the legal issue quickly, learn the product deeply, and give the business a practical path forward.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to product and engineering teams, embedding legal and compliance frameworks into our product lifecycle. You will own matters independently and help turn recurring questions into clear guidance and durable systems that support innovation while ensuring compliance with healthcare, privacy, and other regulatory requirements. This is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of both AI and healthcare.

Requirements

• Passion for Abridge’s mission and the energy and drive to support fast-moving product and operational teams
• 5+ years of legal experience, including 3+ years in product counseling.
• Prior in-house experience at a technology company is a requirement.
• Working knowledge of privacy and data protection, consumer protection, and intellectual property issues as they apply to technology products
• Ability to spot issues across a broad range of legal areas, dig into unfamiliar regulatory questions, and know when to bring in specialist expertise
• Proven ability to communicate and translate complex regulatory and legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-legal counterparts and colleagues.
• Comfort and confidence with juggling a high volume of projects, tight timelines, and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and exercise business judgement; interest in joining a small team that prioritizes autonomy and trust.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally, particularly with technical teams, designers, and commercial teams, building relationships and earning their confidence.
• Creativity in solving and navigating novel legal matters; experience in crafting new processes and language to meet the needs of a rapidly-moving enterprise in a novel industry.

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in intellectual property, AI, or software and technology transactions (e.g., licensing, open source)
• Familiarity with recent trends in AI, particularly with large language models and responsible AI principles
• Prior experience at a growth-stage, AI-native, or healthcare technology company
• Strong understanding of and experience with federal and state healthcare laws, including HIPAA and state health privacy laws
• Experience with healthcare regulatory matters, including FDA, FTC, fraud, waste, and abuse laws, health data interoperability and information blocking rules, and related state laws

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary legal partner for our products and features from early design through launch and post-launch review.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, policy, partner experience, marketing, IT, finance, corporate development, and commercial to ensure alignment and mitigate risk.
• Review product launches, feature changes, user-facing disclosures, and marketing claims
• Develop and scale practical legal processes, frameworks, and templates that enable teams to move quickly with appropriate guardrails
• Provide actionable legal guidance on regulatory, privacy, and compliance matters, including the evolving AI/ML landscape.
• Flex across the broader Product, Privacy and Regulatory Legal portfolio as company priorities and risk change.
• Coordinate with external counsel to resolve specialist issues and ensure fast delivery of actionable legal guidance and risk analysis.
• Monitor emerging laws and regulations affecting Abridge’s products and data practices and advise internal stakeholders on their implications.

Benefits

• 14 paid holidays
• flexible PTO for salaried employees
• accrued time off for hourly employees
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for all full-time employees and their families.
• HSA Contribution
• Generous paid parental leave for all full-time employees.
• Family Forming Benefits: Resources and financial support to help you build your family.
• 401(k) Matching
• Personal Device Allowance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Commuter Benefits
• Lifestyle Wallet: Monthly contributions for fitness, professional development, coworking, and more.
• Mental Health Support: Dedicated access to therapy and coaching to help you reach your goals.
• Paid Sabbatical Leave after 5 years of employment.
• Competitive compensation and equity grants for full time employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed