General Counsel

As a physician-founded and led organization, ensuring everyone has access to quality healthcare is what inspires us. That’s why we hire people who genuinely care about patients, solving healthcare challenges, and making a positive impact every day. Join us and help change the future of healthcare for the better.

• 120+ locations and growing, along with vast virtual coverage

• 1 million+ patients to-date

• 2,000+ caring clinicians and support staff serving their communities

• Backed by investors such as CVS Health Ventures and Blackstone Horizon

The General Counsel will be an integral part of Carbon Health’s leadership team and will support Carbon Health’s mission: making world-class healthcare accessible to all. To support our mission, this position will advise on a wide range of legal subject areas, including healthcare regulatory guidance, general commercial transactions, corporate governance and compliance, SEC reporting, privacy requirements, litigation and risk management, intellectual property, employment and real estate. Additionally, you will work cross-functionally with finance, operations and compliance to drive implementation. This role involves both strategic leadership as well as work in the trenches to get things done. 

What You'll Do

• Strategic partnership supporting business expansion and growth for our professional entities
• Manage and advice on corporate governance, business development transaction, law compliance, general transaction support, license agreements, employment law, regulatory matters, risk management, financing activities, and general contract management
• Draft, review, approve and provide oversight of all company agreements, including key agreements relating to sales agreement, suppliers and vendors, payers, distributors, software and technology licensing, employment and consulting
• Provide in-depth legal advice with complex laws and regulations including, but not limited to Stark Law, the anti kickback Statute (and various state-law equivalents), EMTALA, Medicare, Medicaid State Operations Manual, HIPAA/HiTech, PPACA, ERISA, HIPAA, and other federal and state statutes, rules, and regulations that govern healthcare providers
• Partner with Human Resources as it pertains to compliance and employee relations Lead and coordinate the legal services, including selection and supervision of external counsel, and evaluate the quality and costs of outside counsel
• Develop and refine marketing compliance guidelines and review marketing materials
• Act as the Privacy Officer, build the company’s privacy compliance, intellectual property and regulatory program, including applicable policies, procedures and training, and coordination with other internal business functions
• Foster a high performing legal team that establishes clear expectations, sets priorities, and focus resources

About You

• JD from an accredited law school, and a license in good standing with the California Bar
• 12+ years of relevant legal experience and prior General Counsel experience in healthcare and/or technology, preferably in a fast growing startup company
• Exceptional judgment and ability to act decisively and with discretion in situations requiring quick, but thorough analysis and provide effective solutions
• Proven legal experience covering multiple aspects of corporate law including business development, corporate contracting, employment, intellectual property, security and compliance, privacy, corporate governance
• Experience in an advisory capacity to the Board of Directors, Risk Management Committee, Compliance and senior administrative/clinic management staff and physicians on risk management issues
• Strong organizational and time management skills in order to balance working on multiple projects in parallel
• Must be a strategic, big picture thinker who understands, appreciates and can appropriately balance legal, business and creative objectives
• Humble, work collaboratively with all levels of the organization, roll up your sleeves approach and ability to prioritize and multitask

All candidate email communication will be done through a @carbonhealth.com email address. If you ever receive communication regarding a job posting from an entity that does not match that or seems concerning, please contact [email protected].

Carbon Health is a leading national healthcare provider with a mission to make high-quality healthcare accessible to everyone. We offer primary and urgent care to nearly two-thirds of the U.S. Leveraging our unique technology platform, we meet patients where they are by delivering care across a variety of access points, including in-person clinics and virtual care. Carbon Health also focuses on value-based care and other value-add services to employers, health plans, health systems and other ecosystem partners.

We recognize that the key to success lies in valuing the minds, experiences and perspectives of people from all walks of life. Carbon Health is proud to value diversity and be an equal opportunity employer. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Carbon Health is an E-Verify employer.