[Hiring] Associate Legal Counsel @Fuze Health

Role Description

The Associate Legal Counsel is a high-impact, strategic role in Fuze’s enterprise legal department sitting at the intersection of healthcare regulatory law, technology, and patient care. This position serves as a legal architect for Fuze Health’s domestic commercial operations, providing the specialized subject matter expertise required to navigate the high-stakes digital health landscape. The Associate Counsel serves as a trusted advisor to business partners across Fuze Services, advising on the regulatory considerations for new and existing offerings, and contracting with customers for those offerings.

The Associate Legal Counsel is a pragmatic attorney with substantive experience in commercial contracting, sound legal judgment, solid risk assessment capabilities, and the ability to balance legal and business considerations in a fast-paced environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Contracting
  • Draft, review, and negotiate agreements using playbooks and clause libraries, including:
    • Sell-side: payer/customer agreements, data sharing agreements, BAAs/DPAs, SaaS and technology agreements, MSAs, and SOWs
    • Buy-side: vendor, procurement, and operations agreements (IT/SaaS, professional services, logistics/delivery, marketing vendors, clinical vendors)
  • Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to ensure contract terms are both favorable and operationally-minded
  • Manage redlines, issues lists, internal alignment, and approval workflows through execution; memorialize deviations and approvals
  • Maintain and improve templates, clause libraries, and playbooks to reduce cycle time and drive consistency
  • Negotiate and document SLAs, support/uptime, data handling/retention, audit rights, business continuity, termination/transition assistance, and fee/charge guardrails
• Healthcare Regulatory and Privacy Support
  • Issue-spot and provide practical guidance on applicable laws and regulations, such as the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), Stark Law, False Claims Act, and FDA requirements relevant to screening and diagnostic testing, laboratory certifications, and telehealth operations
  • Support the Privacy team on HIPAA and data protection matters, including incident response, breach investigations, and privacy compliance activities
  • Partner with outside counsel on complex or novel regulatory questions; help implement recommendations
  • Identify and support the development of training materials and policy and procedure documents on relevant legal and business issues
  • Advise internal business partners on legal risk affecting their priorities the business and its strategies and collaborating on strategies to best manage identified risks
  • Partner with business functions such as Product, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, and Marketing to ensure compliance with internal policies and regulatory and legal requirements

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an attorney at a law firm or in-house practicing in the digital health, life sciences or healthcare industries
• Prior experience and familiarity with the legal and regulatory matters relevant to a digital health provider is required
• Experience with reimbursement, licensure and credentialing matters will be an asset
• General knowledge of business functions and processes at a digital health or healthcare company
• Previous in-house experience will be an asset

Requirements

• J.D. degree from an accredited law school
• Admitted to practice in a recognized U.S. jurisdiction and active member of a state bar in good standing

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve complex issues and to balance legal risk and business objectives with a solution-oriented mindset
• Strong business acumen with the ability to assimilate information effectively, think strategically and execute efficiently
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with demonstrated effectiveness in consensus building and negotiations

Benefits

• Full-time employee benefits include:
  • dental, vision, and multiple group medical plans to choose from
  • a 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • group life insurance
  • accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
  • flexible spending account (FSA) and health savings account (HSA)
  • commuter benefits
  • employer-paid short-term (STD) and long-term disability (LTD) insurance
  • additional supplemental insurance plans (spouse life insurance, legal insurance, an employee assistance program, home health testing kits, and a fertility medication discount program)
  • flexible vacation time
  • accrued paid sick time
  • 10 paid holidays (2 floating holidays for full time non-exempt employees)
  • eight weeks of paid parental leave for eligible employees
  • additional paid weeks for the birthing parent
  • 4 weeks paid caregiver leave
  • a Lifestyle Spending Account allowance each month