Director of Legal & Compliance

What if you could personally impact the future of healthcare? As part of the PocketHealth team, you will enable hospitals and clinics across North America — and more importantly, empower over a million patients — to discover a better healthcare experience.

PocketHealth is a patient-centric platform that enables hospitals and clinics across North America to share imaging records digitally with patients, instantly and securely. Through our platform, we enable patients to be active and engaged participants in their own care, and take control of their care journey. In addition to image sharing, which is the heart of the PocketHealth platform, we’ve grown our core functionality to enable sharing between hospitals and physicians, as well as instant image retrieval and automated importing capability. PocketHealth is a unified image management solution for over 600 hospitals and clinics across North America. We believe that by placing patients at the center of the record release process, data moves more ethically, easily and securely throughout the care journey, and we’re looking for passionate individuals to help make this vision a reality for millions more patients across North America.

We are seeking a strategic and experienced Director of Legal and Compliance to join our team. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, this role will be critical in shaping our legal strategy and ensuring continued compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in corporate and commercial law, compliance, and risk management, along with a willingness to roll up their sleeves and engage deeply with our dynamic operations.

• Legal support: Draft, review, and negotiate patient, provider and vendor-facing agreements and policies to ensure alignment with our business objectives and risk tolerance.
• Compliance leadership: Develop and implement internal policies, procedures, and training to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and business objectives. Lead the development and implementation of our compliance and risk management agenda, including our annual SOC2 audit and HIPAA attestation processes. 
• External counsel coordination: Collaborate with and manage relationships with external legal counsel, including privacy, employment and other matters.
• Regulatory monitoring: Stay updated on relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards, advising the company on necessary actions to maintain compliance.
• Risk management: Conduct regular risk assessments to identify potential legal and compliance issues, developing strategies to mitigate risks.
• Board documentation: Prepare and oversee Board of Directors correspondence and documentation.
• Hands-on engagement: Work closely with various teams to understand and support the dynamic operations and roadmap of our business, providing legal guidance that is practical and aligned with our goals.

• Law degree from a recognized university.
• Member in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario.
• 5+ years of experience in a law firm or an in-house legal department, with a focus on commercial and/or corporate law.
• Nice-to-haves: Understanding of North American privacy laws, including PHIPA, PIPEDA, and HIPAA, as well as industry standards like SOC 2.
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• A proactive, hands-on approach, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.

Note that this is a hybrid role, involving typically two-to-three days of in-person collaboration (at our office in downtown Toronto) per week.

You can do amazing things at PocketHealth. You can positively impact the healthcare journey for millions of people, while building your career and developing your skills. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. It has been a part of our mission since our founding to empower patients & make healthcare accessible to all, and we know this can only be achieved with a team of diverse perspectives that is representative of the Patient & Provider communities we serve. 

PocketPHolk love working here for these reasons and more; working remotely, our competitive salaries and benefits (stock options too!), four weeks of paid time off, unlimited wellness days, extended mental health coverage and beyond - it’s important to us that our PocketPHolk are taken care of in the same way we take care of our Patients & Providers.

If there are ways we can support you through the recruitment process with an accommodation, please let us know by reaching out to DEI@pocket.health. Applications are accepted via posting only.