Description:
About This Opportunity:As a Sr. Healthcare Contracts Counsel, you'll lead complex healthcare contracting across the enterprise. You'll own negotiation strategy, drafting, risk assessment, and stakeholder enablement—protecting the company while accelerating deals. In this high-volume, rapid-turn environment, you'll independently manage multiple concurrent negotiations, deliver clear, business-forward advice on tight timelines, and advance strategic initiatives with minimal oversight.
Things You'll Do Here:
- Lead preparation, negotiation, and execution of a wide range of agreements: MSAs/SOWs, payer and provider/network agreements, TPAs/administrative services, BAAs/DPAs/DUAs, data licenses/sharing, SaaS/technology, subcontractor/vendor, and strategic partnerships.
- Balance deal velocity with risk by applying pre-approved fallbacks, escalation paths, and time-boxed issue resolution.
- Own and continuously improve templates, clause libraries, fallback matrices, and negotiation playbooks, implementing disciplined version control and change governance.
- Partner with Legal Ops and Procurement to refine intake, triage, and approval workflows; optimize CLM metadata, playbook routing, and dashboards to reduce bottlenecks.
- Identify and mitigate risks under HIPAA/HITECH, state privacy laws (e.g., CCPA/CPRA), ERISA (as applicable), CMS and state insurance/TPA rules, AKS/Stark (as implicated), and data-security standards (SOC 2, HITRUST).
- Provide concise, actionable guidance to Sales, Network, Operations, Finance, Procurement, IT/Security, and HR; deliver practical options and tradeoffs in real time.
- Build training, checklists, and quick-reference guides on contracting policies, regulatory requirements, and negotiation best practices tailored for a fast-turn business.
- Support corporate governance by drafting and maintaining contracting and third-party risk policies aligned with enterprise risk management and throughput goals.
- Manage pre-litigation disputes, cure/termination processes, and escalations; coordinate with outside counsel on litigation, regulatory inquiries, or audits.
- Support M&A, product and data initiatives, and vendor/security assessments; lead legal workstreams and contract portfolio diligence.
- Provide day-to-day guidance and quality control for associate attorneys and contract managers with a focus on prioritization, triage, and SLA discipline.
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties.
What You'll Bring to the Team:
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
- Active license to practice law in a U.S. state.
- 5+ years of relevant legal experience in corporate and healthcare law with strong legal drafting and analytical skills.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills, with the ability to analyze complex legal issues and provide clear, practical guidance.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to convey legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint); familiarity with contract management systems or legal research tools preferred.
- In-house experience at a health plan, TPA, cost containment/claims, provider organization, PBM, or healthtech company.
- Experience with third-party risk management, security addenda (SOC 2/HITRUST), and data governance.
- Exposure to network development/managed care contracting and value-based/risk-sharing models.
- Prior team leadership or mentorship experience in a fast-turn contracting shop.
Where You'll Work: This is a fully remote position, and we'll provide all the necessary equipment!
- Work Environment: You'll need a quiet workspace that is free from distractions.
- Technology: Reliable internet connection—if you can use streaming services, you're good to go!
- Security: Adherence to company security protocols, including the use of VPNs, secure passwords, and company-approved devices/software.
- Location: You must be US based, in a location where you can work effectively and comply with company policies such as HIPAA.
Why You'll Love Working Here
A Software Company is proud to be recognized by Inc. 5000 as one of America's fastest-growing private companies. Our team is committed to delivering on our promise to engage early and often for smarter, better, faster healthcare. With this commitment, you'll find an engaged culture – one that stands strong, vigorous, and healthy in all we do.
