Responsibilities
- Run the legal and compliance function end to end as the senior lawyer for the company, setting strategy, priorities, and standards for the team across commercial contracting, regulatory, compliance, corporate, employment, IP, privacy, and disputes.
- Deliver the function on budget and against defined SLAs for contract turnaround and stakeholder responsiveness.
- Serve as the senior legal voice to the CEO, COO, co-founders, executive team, and Board on consequential decisions, including strategic partnerships, new market entry, financing events, and material risk matters.
- Supervise and develop a team of four, including a Deputy General Counsel, Associate Counsel, Senior Director of Compliance, and Legal Operations Coordinator.
- Set clear expectations, manage performance, hire, and build a culture of independent judgment and ownership.
- Lead corporate governance for the company, including Board and committee support, UWCs, officer designations, equity administration coordination, DBA and annual state filings, and the Risk and Compliance Committee.
- Serve in officer roles designated by the Board, including the company’s Anti-Money Laundering Officer, Privacy Officer, and Bank Secrecy Act Officer.
- Lead the commercial legal function and personally draft, redline, and negotiate the company’s most consequential agreements, including customer contracts with health plans, vendor and partnership contracts, merchant and payment processor agreements, tri-party program agreements, CPG agreements, and channel partner contracts.
- Carry your own portfolio of work alongside the team.
- Own the regulatory and compliance posture of the business across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, EBT, card programs, banking partnerships, HIPAA, and state-level fintech and privacy obligations.
- Provide direct legal advice on regulatory questions and engage with regulators when needed.
- Supervise internal and external audits, including customer audits, third-party fintech and banking audits, investor audits, and regulatory examinations.
- Partner with Compliance on investigations, policy development, and audit remediation.
- Lead the legal workstream for evermore’s expansion into EBT and public sector programs, including state-level contracting, FNS engagement, government procurement responses, and the compliance framework that supports operating in a new regulatory environment.
- Own the company’s IP portfolio, working with outside counsel on trademark prosecution, brand and product mark protection, and IP strategy across the business.
- Partner with People Operations on employment law matters, including hiring practices, separations, performance management, leaves, accommodations, immigration support, and employment policy.
- Advise on workplace investigations and disputes.
- Manage the company’s relationships with AmLaw 100 outside counsel firms, including selection, engagement, scope, and budget.
- Reduce reliance on outside counsel by building in-house capability, control external spend against budget, and hold firms accountable to quality and efficiency when their input is genuinely required.
- Manage, in coordination with outside counsel, litigation and pre-litigation matters end to end, including in-house workup, drafting demand and response letters, directing outside counsel, settlement strategy, and exposure analysis.
- Handle subpoenas and disputes as the company’s representative.
- Own enterprise risk management for legal exposure, including identification and remediation of legacy contractual liabilities, indemnification scope, insurance coordination, and risk allocation in new agreements.
- Partner with Finance on legal budget, forecasting, deal structuring, pricing, business insurance, and risk allocation.
- Drive legal operations maturity, including contract templates, playbooks, Ironclad workflows, reporting, and the systems that allow the team to scale without scaling headcount.
- Support M&A and capital markets readiness as the business approaches those milestones.
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Team
Team size: 4. Structure: Leads a team consisting of a Deputy General Counsel, an Associate Counsel supporting commercial transactions, a Senior Director of Compliance, and a Legal Operations Coordinator.
Additional Information
- Travel may be required from time to time as part of the role, for company events and business needs
- evermore is a remote-first, distributed workforce. Candidates should be comfortable with, and equipped to work within, a distributed remote team, including having reliable internet access and basic home office equipment.
- evermore will provide a work laptop, and mouse/keyboard upon request
- Legal authorization to work in the US is required.
- At this time, evermore will not consider candidates who need sponsorship, now or in the future
- All offers for employment are contingent upon successful completion of a background check
- evermore is not currently offering visa sponsorship for this position.
- evermore is an equal opportunity employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/LGBTQIA+ – proudly embracing diversity in all its manifestations.
- Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the People Operations Team via careers@evermoreoutcomes.com.
- evermore participates in E-Verify, the federal program for electronic verification of employment eligibility.
- To all recruitment agencies: evermore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward them to any evermore employees.
