Senior Legal Counsel

Join Rula, a growing mental healthcare company, as a Senior Legal Counsel. In this role, you will provide practical guidance on employment, privacy, and security legal matters, ensuring compliance while supporting our mission. You will work closely with various internal stakeholders and be an integral part of building foundational processes in a fast-paced environment. Enjoy remote work, generous benefits, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in mental healthcare.

• Assurer la conformité des opérations de l'entreprise en fournissant des conseils juridiques pratiques sur les questions d'emploi, de confidentialité et de sécurité.
• Diriger les affaires juridiques liées à l'emploi, à la confidentialité et à la sécurité, en transformant les réglementations complexes en conseils pratiques et actionnables.
• Participer activement à la construction de processus fondamentaux dans un environnement dynamique pour soutenir directement l'atteinte de la mission de l'entreprise.
• 5+ years of employment law experience either in a law firm or in-house providing strategic guidance and legal support on variety of employment law matters including, but not limited to, worker classification; workplace policies and training; employee performance management; fair labor standards act requirements; equal employment opportunity commission matters; wage and hour issues; discrimination and sexual harassment; leave issues (e.g., Family Medical Leave Act); accommodations (e.g., American with Disabilities Act); retaliation and wrongful discharge
• Strong writing, analytic, communication, and interpersonal skills to provide efficient, succinct, and practical guidance and support in a fast-paced working environment.
• 5+ years of healthcare privacy and security law experience including related to HIPAA, and state consumer privacy laws to support and provide guidance on privacy and security compliance; data breach and cyber incident response and management; contractual reviews of business associate agreements, data use agreements, security agreements, and other related agreements
• Experience with state AI laws including in the employment and privacy context (e.g., workplace monitoring; automated decision making)
• 7+ years of progressive, relevant legal experience as a practicing attorney
• Demonstrated success serving as in-house counsel within a high-growth technology, digital health, or healthcare startup environment
• Comprehensive understanding of multi-state employment laws, operational compliance, and data privacy regulations necessary to support and manage the complexities of a fully distributed, 100% remote, nationwide workforce
• Expertise in the legal nuances of marketplace, gig-economy, or platform-based business models, specifically including advanced experience navigating complex worker classification issues (contractor vs. employee) and proactively developing risk-mitigation strategies at scale
• Contract lifecycle management including drafting and negotiating contracts
• Healthcare regulatory experience
• We encourage all interested applicants to apply, even those who may not meet every preferred requirement