Head of Legal

Develop Health is on a mission to use AI to radically accelerate access to life-saving medications. By automating complex, manual healthcare processes—like benefit verification and prior authorization— we've been growing rapidly and over the past couple of years have helped over 2.5 million patients!

We’re partnering with some of the largest pharmacy benefit managers and payers in the nation, revolutionizing how healthcare interactions occur by eliminating human delays and inefficiencies. Our small, elite team of founders and engineers have previously launched and exited successful healthcare startups including Rupa Health and Canvas Medical. We are now scaling rapidly following a major funding round.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Location: Menlo Park or San Francisco, on site 3 days a week. Reports to: CEO.

We're hiring our first in-house lawyer. Develop Health sits in the middle of PBMs, providers, pharma manufacturers, payers and the patients they all serve, and each of them relies on us to treat them fairly. Your job is to keep it that way: every contract we sign, every feature we ship and every service we offer pharma has to keep us a neutral party all sides can trust.

You'll report to our CEO and own legal end to end as a hands-on practitioner. For at least the first year you're the only lawyer, working with outside counsel on specialist matters.

Three things define success in this role:

The contracts fit together. You know our stakeholder agreements side by side, and nothing we agree with one party creates exposure with another.

Product ships fast and stays compliant. You work alongside product and engineering, find the version of an idea that works, and explain the one constraint that actually matters.

Legal scales without you in every deal. Templates, fallback positions and playbooks let sales and partnerships close standard deals on their own, and they know exactly when to bring you in.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Review our stakeholder agreements side by side, the...