[Hiring] Physician, Virtual Care @Counsel Health

Role Description

This is a clinical role, full stop. As a Physician on our Virtual Care team, you'll spend the vast majority of your time doing what you trained for: seeing patients. The difference is how. Your visits will be messaging-based, AI-paired, and built around what's actually best for the patient instead of what the EMR will let you click. You'll be the clinician on the other end of the message: the one a patient turns to at 7pm on a Tuesday for their rash, their refill, or the random pain they've been ignoring.

Your day is patient care and every conversation you have with a Counsel patient sharpens how we care for everyone who comes next. That's what it means to multiply the world's healthcare capacity.

What you'll do

• Practice exceptional, AI-paired medicine.
• See patients across acute, primary, and longevity care over messages: diagnose, treat, triage, follow up.
• Practice with Counsel's AI like a sharp colleague who's already read the chart: it preps the history, sharpens the differential, drafts the message.
• Hold a high bar on every encounter: the clinical reasoning, the safety, the way it lands with the patient.
• Stay generalist. The patients our partners send us need urgent care today, primary care tomorrow, and something none of us have seen yet next week.
• Raise the bar on the clinical team.
• Work with the CMO and VP of Care Delivery on the guidelines, peer review, and clinical systems that keep care safe as the team grows.
• Mentor newer clinicians; share what's working; raise the bar without making it about you.
• Shape the tools you practice in.
• Provide feedback on workflows and tools to improve clinical practice.

Qualifications

• Board certification in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Family Medicine, with an active medical license (10+ licenses preferred; exceptional candidates with less will be considered).
• 3+ years of post-residency clinical experience (urgent care, ER, primary care, or a strong generalist mix).
• Genuine interest in acute, primary, and longevity care.
• Comfort working in a fully virtual, asynchronous, messaging-based modality.
• Strong written communication, most of your patient care happens in writing.

Requirements

• 32+ hrs/week with flexibility on how you build your schedule.
• Shift blocks (EST): 7:30a–1p, 1p–6p, 6p–9p.
• Limited evening and weekend coverage required (2 evenings + 2 weekend days/month).
• 0.8, 0.9, and 1.0 FTE available; W2 or 1099: we'll structure the role to fit how you want to work.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k).
• Paid time off.

Company Description

Counsel's mission is to multiply the world's healthcare capacity. We believe in a future in which every person has a personalized, AI-enabled doctor always in their pocket. To accomplish this, we're building the first fully-vertical, AI-native medical group from the ground up. We've redesigned the entire clinical stack with custom AI tools that make our in-house physicians 10x faster and smarter.

We founded Counsel in 2023. Since then we've raised over $35M from a16z, Google Ventures, and Pear VC, partnered with leading healthcare organizations, and put ourselves on track to serve hundreds of thousands of patients on our platform within the next year.

We're 40 people today, growing toward 100. The NY office is becoming the heartbeat of the company - how it looks, feels, and runs is something we're investing in.