Remote — United States | Contract with Potential Full-Time Conversion
A rapidly growing, venture-backed, AI-native law firm is seeking an experienced healthcare regulatory attorney to advise early-stage and high-growth health-tech companies. This is an urgent contract opportunity created by active client demand, with the potential to transition into a full-time position as the practice continues to grow.
The engagement is expected to begin at approximately 25 hours per week at $110–$120 per hour. Candidates who are primarily interested in a full-time opportunity are still encouraged to apply.
The Opportunity
You will serve as a trusted legal advisor to health-tech founders and operating teams, providing practical guidance across HIPAA, healthcare contracting, FDA and digital-health regulatory matters. You will work directly with clients, own matters from beginning to end and help build the firm’s health-tech capabilities.
For the right person, this offers a meaningful opportunity to shape and potentially lead a growing health-tech practice.
Responsibilities
- Advise health-tech clients on HIPAA, healthcare compliance, digital-health regulation and related operational matters
- Draft, review and negotiate business associate agreements and other healthcare-specific contracts
- Counsel founders and product teams on FDA and digital-health regulatory frameworks
- Translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, business-oriented guidance
- Develop and improve BAA templates, healthcare agreements, playbooks and precedent libraries
- Create practical healthcare guidance for the firm’s internal knowledge systems
- Develop training materials and lead educational sessions for other attorneys
- Collaborate within AI-enabled legal workflows to improve the speed and consistency of service delivery
- Build direct, trusted relationships with clients and internal stakeholders
Qualifications
- J.D. from an accredited law school
- Active U.S. bar membership in good standing
- At least eight years of focused healthcare regulatory or health-tech transactional experience
- Deep knowledge of HIPAA and health-information privacy requirements
- Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating BAAs and healthcare-specific agreements
- Meaningful experience advising digital-health, telehealth, healthcare technology or medical-device companies
- Working knowledge of FDA and digital-health regulatory frameworks
- Ability to communicate complex legal issues clearly to founders and business teams
- Current, practical experience using AI or modern legal-technology tools
- Willingness to share expertise, develop templates and help train other attorneys
- Based in the United States and authorized to work without sponsorship
Preferred Backgrounds
Strong candidates may come from one or more of the following environments:
- A leading healthcare, life-sciences or digital-health law practice
- An in-house legal role at an early-stage or high-growth health-tech company
- A healthcare regulatory position with the FDA, HHS, CMS or another relevant government agency
- A fractional, outside-counsel or consulting practice serving health-tech companies
Government attorneys with deep regulatory knowledge and sufficient practical advisory experience are encouraged to apply.
Engagement and Compensation
Initial contract engagement
- $110–$120 per hour
- Approximately 25 hours per week
- Remote within the United States
- Potential transition to full-time based on client demand and mutual fit
Potential full-time compensation
- $200,000–$240,000 base salary
- Meaningful equity
- Fully covered health and dental insurance
- 401(k) with a 5% employer match
- 16 weeks of parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote-first environment with annual in-person offsites
Why Consider This Opportunity?
- Join a venture-backed firm built around AI-native legal workflows
- Work directly with innovative health-tech founders and leadership teams
- Focus entirely on sophisticated healthcare and digital-health matters
- Avoid traditional billable-hour requirements and junior handoffs
- Help create the templates, systems and strategy for a new practice area
- Position yourself to lead and scale the health-tech practice as client demand grows