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Associate General Counsel serves as a senior legal advisor responsible for leading complex legal matters and acting as the primary legal partner to a business unit or function. This role balances independent execution with strategic guidance to enable business growth while managing risk.
Your Role:- Serve as the primary legal advisor to multiple business units and corporate functions, providing strategic and practical legal counsel aligned with business objectives and company risk tolerance. Advise leaders on operational, commercial, product, technology, procurement, data, intellectual property, and regulatory matters.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a wide range of complex commercial agreements, including SaaS agreements, vendor and procurement contracts, technology agreements, strategic partnerships, professional services agreements, licensing agreements, statements of work, data use agreements, and other enterprise transactions.
- Provide legal guidance related to data licensing, data governance, privacy, and real-world data (RWD) initiatives, including review and negotiation of agreements involving healthcare data, data acquisition, data commercialization, analytics partnerships, and AI-enabled technologies. Partner closely with business and technical teams to ensure compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
- Advise on intellectual property matters, including ownership, licensing, protection, commercialization, trademark usage, software and technology rights, open-source considerations, and contractual IP provisions. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support innovation while protecting company assets and mitigating risk.
- Partner cross-functionally with stakeholders across Product Development, Procurement, Information Security, Finance, Operations, Sales, Compliance, and other corporate functions to support strategic initiatives, resolve legal issues, and drive alignment between business goals and legal risk management.
- Identify, assess, and advise on legal, operational, regulatory, and commercial risks, translating complex legal concepts into practical business recommendations. Escalate enterprise-level, novel, or high-risk issues to senior legal leadership as appropriate.
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of legal processes, templates, playbooks, policies, and contracting workflows to improve efficiency, consistency, scalability, and risk management across the Legal Department.
Skills & Responsibilities:- Juris Doctor
- 7-10+ years of legal experience, including in-house experience.
- Experience supporting a broad range of business functions within a SaaS, healthcare technology, technology, data, or other highly regulated environment.
- Significant experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial and technology transactions.
- Experience advising on procurement, vendor management, licensing, data use, intellectual property, and operational legal matters.
- Experience independently supporting business leaders and cross-functional initiatives.
- Strong ability to balance legal risk with practical business solutions.
- Advanced commercial contracting and negotiation skills.
- Strong business judgment and strategic thinking.
- Ability to provide practical, solutions-oriented legal advice.
- Knowledge of technology transactions, procurement, SaaS, data licensing, IP, and regulatory frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Ability to independently manage complex legal matters with minimal oversight.
- Cross-functional collaboration and influence skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to simplify and communicate complex legal concepts to non-legal audiences.
- Experience supporting healthcare technology, healthcare data, AI/ML, or real-world data (RWD) initiatives.
- Experience with privacy, data licensing, healthcare regulatory, or intellectual property matters.
- Prior experience at a fast-paced, high-growth SaaS or technology company.
- Experience supporting enterprise procurement and strategic partnership functions.
ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed, we believe it's important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:
United States- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution,
- 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
- Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs,
- Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs,
- Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed,
- Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning,
- Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles,
- Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.
