Product Counsel

The Product Counsel will play a crucial role in navigating the complex legal landscape of health technology. Your expertise in intellectual property (IP), data privacy, artificial intelligence (AI), marketing, and compliance, will be instrumental in guiding our product development and market strategies. You will work closely with large, multi-stakeholder teams including our product, engineering, and business teams to ensure our products comply with applicable laws and regulations while also supporting business objectives and innovation.

What you’ll be doing: 

• Advise multi-stakeholders on legal considerations during the product development lifecycle process to ensure compliance with existing laws and regulations, including data privacy laws, intellectual property rights, laws related to AI development and deployment, consumer protection laws, and international legal requirements.
• Identify and manage the IP aspects of products, including patents, trade secrets, copyrights, and trademarks.
• Work with the data privacy and security teams to flag and advise on issues related to data privacy and security, ensuring the product complies with applicable data privacy laws including HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA.  
• Ensure the product and its marketing comply with consumer protection laws, avoiding deceptive trade practices, and ensuring fair competition.
• Collaborate with the compliance, regulatory, and risk management teams to identify any additional potential compliance and regulatory risks associated with the product and work with the necessary teams to mitigate these risks. 
• Maintain understanding of new and evolving laws impacting the business.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What success looks like in this role:

• Manage Product by Design within the product life cycle
• Conduct legal training sessions for product teams and measure feedback
• Manage the IP portfolio and track timelines
• Draft Product Counsel Templates and document product meetings, legal advice given, and ultimate decisions made

What we expect from you: 

• Juris Doctorate (JD) degree from an accredited law school and an active member of at least one state bar
• 5+ years experience in a product counsel role with a tech company or technology driven environment
• Familiarity and experience with data privacy laws and frameworks related to health data or other sensitive data (e.g., HIPAA, CCPA, GDPR,  etc.)
• Experience advising on AI and Machine Learning
• Proven experience working cross-functionally with various teams and stakeholders
• Excellent problem-solving skills, legal drafting, and negotiation skills
• Ability to work comfortably in a fast-paced, high-volume work environment
• Ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously under deadline pressure
• Strong team player who can collaborate effectively with both legal and non-legal colleagues

The target base salary range for this position is $184,000 - $230,000, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including stock options and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Spring Health we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

Ready to do the most impactful work of your life? Learn more about our values, how we work, and how hypergrowth meets impact at Spring Health: Our Values

Hypergrowth meets impact

What to expect working here:

• You will be held accountable to an exceptionally high bar and impact
• This may be the fastest work environment you will ever experience in terms of growth, decision-making, and time to impact
• You will be empowered to set your own boundaries and asked to adapt them in critical moments when the company needs you
• You will create processes & products that have never existed before
• You will have very direct conversations and receive continuous feedback to push you to become the most thriving team member and performer you can be
• Change is a constant here: your role, team, responsibilities, and success metrics will shift as the company grows

And…

• You get to be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the field  
• You get to learn and grow at an extremely accelerated pace
• You will experience transparency, integrity, &  humility from leadership 
• You will be empowered to constantly challenge the status quo
• You get the space to experiment & innovate
• You get to make a transformational impact for the company, mental health, and for real human lives — and you will see that impact quickly
• You will become more resourceful and resilient
• You get to be part of a winning team that opens doors in the future

Benefits provided by Spring Health:

Your Total Health:

• Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring Health. You and your dependents also receive an individual One Medical account which is valued at $199/year per user. HSA and FSA plans available
• A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents
• 10 allocated sick days per year
• Flexible paid time off in addition to 12 paid holidays throughout the year
• Access to Gympass, an on-demand virtual benefit that provides wellbeing coaching, and budget management.
• Spring Renewal: When you hit your four-year Springaversary, you’ll be awarded a four week, fully paid, sabbatical leave to renew and recharge. 

You And Your family:

• 4-4.5 months of fully paid parental leave
• Spring Health provides team members and their families with sponsored access to Bright Horizons® child care, back-up care, and elder care.
• Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses

Supporting you financially through:

• Our People team benchmarks all salaries using the Radford Global Compensation Database for technology and life sciences industries. Radford benchmarks salaries with 3,589 global firms, 6.5 million employees, and 98 countries across the globe. We do this to ensure all of our team members are paid equally and competitively.
• On top of competitive and benchmarked salary, Spring Health offers incentive pay (based on role), and equity that begins vesting as we celebrate your first year with the company!
• Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% after 90 days of employment

Creating a culture you can thrive in:

• Flexible work arrangements: 66% of Spring Health team members work fully remote while 33% work in a hybrid model from our New York City offices
• Focus Fridays: no meetings, no distractions, just time for you to get work done.
• Focus Weeks: In Spring 2023, we held our first ever Focus Week, we canceled all non-essential meetings, minimized distractions, and you, our team members, to dive into the key work that gets chopped up or deprioritized during the regular day-to-day. We saw a 36% jump in the average energized score after those five days of flow state work and are finalizing a plan for quarterly Focus Weeks for team members.
• Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement per calendar year.
• $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes

Our privacy policy: https://springhealth.com/privacy-policy/

Spring Health is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable legal requirements. Spring Health is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.