Head of Legal, Compliance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as Hazel's lead in-house attorney and compliance director.

• Offer practical legal guidance on healthcare regulatory issues, corporate governance, employment law, commercial contracts, privacy, enterprise compliance, and risk management.

• Manage ongoing legal tasks in-house while overseeing specialized external legal counsel.

• Decrease dependence on external counsel by internalizing repeatable legal work.

• Create templates, playbooks, matter intake processes, budgets, billing guidelines, relationships with preferred counsel, and alternative fee structures.

• Achieve measurable reductions in external legal expenditures while ensuring quality and effective risk management.

• Lead the legal strategy and negotiations for agreements with customers, payers, partners, and significant vendors.

• Collaborate with Growth, Finance, Operations, and Security on critical contract terms.

• Provide counsel on telehealth, provider licensure, scope of practice, prescribing regulations, corporate-practice-of-medicine issues, and administrative/clinical decision boundaries.

• Maintain Hazel's multi-entity legal framework, entity mapping, and governance documentation.

• Coordinate state entries and exits along with structural changes with Finance, Clinical leadership, and outside counsel.

• Direct the enterprise compliance program and its maturity roadmap, encompassing policies, training, monitoring, reporting, investigations, and corrective actions.

• Support the Compliance Committee and ensure regular reporting to the Board.

• Oversee responsibilities of the Privacy Officer and provide advice on HIPAA, FERPA, student-data privacy, data usage, vendor obligations, and responsible AI governance.

• Establish frameworks for incident response, minimum necessary access, and regulatory reporting.

• Counsel People leadership on workforce reductions, WARN analysis, separations, releases, investigations, leave, accommodations, employee relations, and multi-state employment compliance.

• Maintain prioritized legal and compliance risk assessments and advise leadership and the Board on risk appetite and mitigation strategies.

• Manage regulatory inquiries, internal investigations, and plans for corrective actions.

• Oversee external counsel for financing, M&A, litigation, government investigations, malpractice, intellectual property, tax issues, and unique state-specific regulatory concerns.

⛳️ Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school is required.

• Must hold an active membership in good standing within at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

• Approximately 6-10+ years of progressively responsible legal experience is necessary.

• Significant in-house experience within healthcare or a closely related regulated sector is required.

• Strong foundational knowledge of healthcare regulation and compliance is essential.

• Experience in translating complex regulatory requirements into actionable operating guidance is needed.

• Familiarity with HIPAA, healthcare privacy and security, Medicaid billing integrity, fraud, waste and abuse controls, OIG compliance frameworks, training, monitoring, investigations, and Board reporting is essential.

• Exceptional skills in contract drafting and negotiation are required.

• Ability to provide counsel on sensitive workforce issues is necessary.

• Understanding of MSO and affiliated professional-entity operations is important.

• Experience with PC governance, intercompany arrangements, multi-state qualifications, or corporate-practice-of-medicine matters is strongly preferred.

• Capability to create systems, templates, and playbooks is required.

• Proficiency in utilizing technology effectively to enhance workflows is necessary.

• Ability to select and manage outside counsel, define scope, negotiate fees, and control expenditures is essential.

• Sound judgment and clear communication with clinical and business leaders are crucial.

• Capability to raise difficult issues and communicate openly with senior management and the Board is required.

• Commitment to expanding access to pediatric care is essential.

• Qualified candidates must fulfill applicable employment eligibility requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage.

• Paid time off.

• Stock options.

• Additional benefits and perks.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Personal recognition and celebration.

• Flexibility to work remotely.