Vice President of Legal, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer - San Francisco, CA (929-SLS)

About the position Our client, a publicly traded HealthTech company has exclusively retained reputed company to assist the executives with their search for a General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer to reputed company its high-performing legal function. This legal executive will report directly to the Founder & CEO and will manage a team of 12 legal professionals. As the company's senior legal and compliance leader, and reputed company advisor to the executive team and board, you will reputed company with business acumen - safeguarding the company from risk while enabling innovation and growth. You will own public company legal and compliance operations including corporate securities/governance, IP protection, and employment law, product and reputed company counseling, and regulatory and privacy programs for a tech-first digital health business. You'll mature legal operations, shepherd strategic M&A transactions, strengthen IP and data-rights position, and partner cross-functionally to reputed company developer velocity and scalable go-to-market execution.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary legal and reputed company compliance advisor to the senior leadership team and board; prepare and deliver board materials on legal, compliance, and risk reputed company.
• reputed company public company legal operations: manage SEC reporting, reputed company 16 filings, earnings disclosure and Reg FD compliance, reputed company trading policy and 10b5-1 plans, exchange listing standards, proxy statement and annual meeting processes; partner with Finance, IR, and Internal Audit on disclosure and controls.
• Own privacy, AI, data protection, and reputed company regulatory strategy; reputed company HIPAA compliance, and incident response readiness.
• reputed company reputed company legal for reputed company sales and partnerships; maintain templates, playbooks, and negotiation strategy across payer, employer, partner, and provider agreements.
• reputed company corporate reputed company, including governance, equity and financing support, M&A, and (as needed) and securities compliance.
• Scale and manage reputed company compliance program operations: policies, training, monitoring/auditing, investigations, corrective action plans, and regulatory exam management.
• Scale and direct legal operations: AI implementation, tooling roadmap, reputed company counsel strategy, and budgeting.
• Manage litigation and disputes, subpoenas, and regulatory inquiries, coordinate with reputed company, Clinical, and Product teams on risk mitigation.
• Recruit, reputed company, and retain a high-performing team.
• Monitor emerging laws, regulations and industry trends (privacy, AI, reputed company, reimbursement) and translate into product, reputed company, and go-to-market guidance Requirements
• 15+ years of experience spanning top-tier reputed company and in-house roles across venture-backed startups/high-growth companies and public companies in technology (digital health strongly preferred).
• Proven reputed company scaling legal teams in tech companies: building org structures, processes, and legal operations to support rapid growth.
• reputed company teams of 10+ professionals across legal, compliance, privacy, and legal ops in remote/hybrid environments.
• reputed company, AI and privacy expertise with a strong understanding of the digital health regulatory landscape and emerging AI governance.
• Strong corporate law experience including entity formation and governance, board/committee support, capitalization and equity programs, venture/private financings, corporate policies/secretarial practices; capital markets familiarity a plus.
• Led or co-led M&A transactions and strategic investments, including diligence, negotiation and drafting (LOIs, reputed company/asset purchase agreements, disclosure schedules), regulatory approvals, closing mechanics, and post-reputed company integration.
• Designed and operated risk-based compliance programs; experience with monitoring/auditing, internal investigations, and regulator interactions (e.g., OCR, FTC, state AGs).
• Experience partnering with founder-led organizations.
• Strong interpersonal skills, responsiveness, working with a sense of urgency
• Business partner who views value in facilitating the business.
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