Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S.
Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience.
The Role
We are seeking a Vice President, Deputy General Counsel to join our Legal & Compliance Team. This role will lead our legal team supporting corporate, commercial, employment and insurance. Ideal for a hand-ons, and experienced enterprise commercial counsel who also enjoys a broad mix of day to day work and managing and building a small team focused on the same goals. The role will be responsible for supporting Cedar’s commercial sales and strategic partnerships, vendor contracting, and corporate legal support for the company, including strategic transactions, cap table and equity administration, board & corporate governance, and day-to-day corporate matters as they arise, as well as overseeing and supporting employment law issues. This role reports into the General Counsel.
At Cedar, we offer customizable, enterprise solutions aimed at improving the healthcare experience for Americans, so our commercial agreements are large, complex and highly negotiated. This is a unique opportunity to lead these efforts on behalf of the Legal & Compliance Team, and so we need a strong corporate counsel with strong drafting and negotiation skills, who enjoys and excels at their craft and is a solid strategic partner to the business, and also overseeing and teaching this craft.
Responsibilities
- Support business teams in structuring, drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, particularly Cedar’s commercial sales, vendor partnerships and strategic transactions.
- Provide assistance with corporate legal matters, such as cap table and equity administration, board meeting preparation, corporate approvals, partnership and advisor agreements, fundraising, M&A, and insurance.
- Oversee and support employment law matters, including managing part time employment support and outside counsel.
- Develop, refine and keep up to date standard templates for Cedar’s business, including standard commercial contracts (MSA, SOWs, order forms), NDAs, license agreements, advisor and consulting agreements, etc.
- Partner with our operations and other teams to improve and evolve our CLM tools and legal processes to leverage technology and derive business intelligence from commercial contracts.
- Support business teams in a wide range of contracts, including customer agreements, vendor agreements, service level/support agreements, software license agreements, consultant agreements, marketing agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.
- Manage, guide, mentor, and develop a team of legal professionals.
- Oversee and engage outside supplemental legal resources (like Axiom) and outside counsel.
- Contribute as a team player to help further the status of the Legal & Compliance department as an effective, respected, and valued resource within the company.
- Periodic travel to New York and other locations for company and team meetings (typically ~1x per quarter).
Required Skills & Experience
- JD Degree from an accredited law school and license in good standing to practice law in at least one state bar.
- 15+ years relevant legal experience at a top law firm and/or in-house (a combination is a plus), with experience managing other people and a minimum of 5 years focused experience in healthcare technology transactions and/or enterprise SaaS. Experience with AI contracting, employment law and/or insurance experience is a strong plus.
- Previous experience in tech/start-up/emerging growth companies preferred.
- A caring and motivational manager, capable of attracting, developing and advancing great talent and leading a distributed team, drawing on strengths to achieve common goals
- Excellent commercial negotiation and drafting skills, including prior experience building and maintaining contract templates.
- You get excited about plain English legal drafting and process building, the use of technology to improve legal services, and how to make contracting more straightforward and streamlined.
- Keen business and legal judgment. You know when to say yes or no, but you also know when to escalate concerns, consult a colleague or talk someone through a complex issue.
- You value commercial relationships, and have experience in managing and negotiating directly with other large organizations and their in-house legal departments.
Compensation Range and Benefits
- Salary Range*: $272,000 - $340,000
- This role is equity eligible
- This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
*Subject to location, experience, and education
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What do we offer to the ideal candidate?
- A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
- Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
- 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
- Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
- Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance, that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
- Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
About us
Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. "Over the past several years, we've raised more than $350 million in funding & have the active support of Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
As of November 2024, Cedar is engaging with 26 million patients annually and is on target to process $3.5 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar partners with more than 55 leading healthcare providers and payers including Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, Novant Health, Allina Health and Providence.
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