Senior Counsel

Why Clipboard Health Exists:

We exist to lift as many people up the socioeconomic ladder as possible. We dramatically improve lives, by letting healthcare professionals turn extra time and ambition into career growth and financial opportunity. We achieve this with our app-based marketplace that connects healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals, allowing healthcare professionals to book on-demand shifts and healthcare facilities to access on-demand talent. Our mission is to enable healthcare professionals to work when and where they want, and to enable healthcare facilities to meet their talent needs.

About Clipboard Health:

Clipboard Health is a post-Series C, extremely fast-growing tech startup with classic two-sided network effects, revolutionizing the market for healthcare talent. We are a diverse and inclusive company with a global, remote team. We’ve been featured onYC’s Top Companies and grown 20x+ since January 2021. There has never been a more exciting time to join our growing team and help us serve even more healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities, who can then better serve patients. To learn more about working at Clipboard Health, take a look at our Careers page and how we work.

About the role:

You have a wide array of legal experience, ranging from handling various types of litigation and matters relating to corporate governance, to reviewing and revising a variety of commercial agreements. You have expertise in data privacy and cyber security and know how to practically apply that expertise. You are a solutions-oriented and positive attorney who thrives on small teams and is comfortable embracing the unfamiliar. You have excellent judgment and can run with projects with minimal supervision.  You work efficiently while caring deeply about the quality of your work product. You think strategically how to prioritize proactive projects while ensuring reactive projects receive appropriate attention and are handled thoughtfully and completed on time. You take the initiative to improve and streamline systems and processes, and know how to effectively use technology to make these systems and processes better.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with Sales organization (spanning multiple time zones) to engage with potential and future customers, review proposed contractual edits, and help negotiate and close important deals 
• Provide practical advice on transactional data privacy and cybersecurity matters, including support related compliance initiatives, including with respect to HIPAA/HITECH, TCPA, CCPA/CPRA, and other state privacy laws
• Provide product counseling and risk assessments for the development of new verticals and product offerings, as well as marketing initiatives and user-facing articles
• Contribute to legal strategy and day-to-day management of any pending litigation and investigations, including responding to subpoenas
• Perform corporate day-to-day governance functions, including assisting with the creation and maintenance of corporate entities

What success looks like 90 days in:

• You’ve created a playbook for the business sales team which empowers the team to make a variety of non-legal changes to our contract templates
• You own a docket of litigation (including subpoena responses), and can now identify and pull relevant data from a variety of esoteric databases. 
• You have created and own a system for ensuring the business’s compliance with evolving rules and regulations, including with respect to licensing and data privacy/security
• You are supporting the legal function and advising the business in other areas as needed, including with respect to the development and execution of new and existing products, initiatives, and lines of business

Need to have:

• JD from an ABA accredited law school and admission to at least one state bar
• 7+ years of relevant experience at a reputable law firm and/or in-house legal department in the U.S.
• Experience handling a wide range of litigation matters
• Experience handling matters involving data privacy or cybersecurity
• Experience building and improving legal processes 
• Bias toward action and solving (not just spotting) problems
• Ability to take ownership of your work and manage projects independently
• Comfort and skill navigating complexity and ambiguity, and working on a leanly staffed team
• Ability to work autonomously and under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Agility and flexibility to take on new tasks and responsibilities when necessary to support the business and legal team’s needs in a fast-moving, rapidly- scaling, and dynamic tech company

Nice to have:

• Prior in-house experience at a technology company
• Intellectual property expertise
• CIPP/US certification

The salary range for this position is $225,000 - $250,000. 

The range provided is Clipboard Health's reasonable estimate of the salary for this role. The actual amount may differ based on factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or equity compensation.