General Counsel, Shared Services

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the legal advisor to executive leadership teams at both companies.
• Ability to understand complex legal and business issues and propose pragmatic solutions
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, vendor agreements, NDAs, and service-level agreements.
• Ensure compliance with state and federal healthcare laws and regulations, including HIPAA, telemedicine standards, and pharmacy operations.
• Provide guidance on corporate governance, licensing, and risk management.
• Oversee privacy and data protection strategies across digital platforms.
• Advise on employment law matters, organizational policies, and internal investigations.
• Lead and manage relationships with external legal counsel and manage legal budgets.
• Legal oversight of new investments, partnerships, or M&A activity.
• Responsible for developing, managing, and communicating department policies and procedures. Documents contract compliance program.
• Expertly uses Contract Management System to maintain files, legal documents, and contract and vendor data information systems. Uses information systems to analyze contract and supplier trends to develop strategies and streamline processes.

Qualification & Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school; active license to practice law in the state of Texas.
• Minimum 7 years of legal experience, ideally with a blend of law firm and in-house counsel roles.
• Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth environments is essential, including comfort working with hands-on, highly invested founders and willingness to roll up sleeves and build systems from the ground up.
• Demonstrated experience in contract negotiation and regulatory compliance.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and business partnership skills.
• Integrity, discretion, and strong analytical and organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, multi-entity environment.
• Data privacy and Risk Management expertise
• Experience business entity changes, partnerships, or M&A activity.

Preferred Experience

• Background in healthcare, pharmacy, tech, med device, or telemedicine law is
• Strong background in contract law.
• Knowledge of FDA, DEA, HIPAA, telemedicine standards, and pharmacy operations and state board of pharmacy requirements is strongly preferred

Benefits

• Insurance Benefits
• Retirement Benefits
• Vacation Policy
• Other Perks and Benefits…