Associate General Counsel

About The Role

As Associate General Counsel, you will be integral in securing Headway’s growth with compliance and quality by providing timely, practical legal advice to Headway employees at all levels. To do this, you will advise the business on day-to-day healthcare regulatory and risk management questions, including but not limited to: health insurance billing and reimbursement, health information privacy, consumer data privacy, escalated patient or member complaints, and management services organization issues. You will also provide In-house general advising that includes first-line advising on all legal issues such as, but not limited to employment, marketing, consumer law, and corporate law. Finally, you will also provide counsel on agreements such as vendor agreements, NDAs, BAAs, user agreements, etc. This is an exciting opportunity, as you’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

You’ll be great for this role if:

• You possess a Juris Doctorate degree and a license to practice law in New York and/or the US jurisdiction in which you reside.
• You have 7+ years of professional legal experience either in a law firm or corporate environment, preferably advising healthcare management services organizations or similar entities
• You thrive on giving practical, timely advice to great people doing great work.

You Will:

• Provide general legal business guidance and provide legal support to Headway’s business units
• Prepare and negotiate contracts, including NDAs, vendor agreements, provider agreements, payer agreements, user agreements, BAAs, and others
• Perform regulatory research and analysis on a variety of healthcare and related regulatory topics
• Support resolution of contract disputes and escalated complaints