At Carrum, we live and breathe the mission of transforming the healthcare system to create an unmatched experience for patients. If you are passionate about changing healthcare and want to finally get rid of surprise bills, poor quality, and high prices, while thriving in an entrepreneurial, cutting-edge environment, we would love to connect with you.
In 2014 Carrum reinvented the Center of Excellence (CoE) category in digital health. We are the only company in this space with a digital platform and mobile app powering this novel marketplace. Today, most of the US population lives within a 3 hour driving distance of a Carrum CoE and our providers rank in the top 10% nationally. Our team’s execution has been recognized by the venture community and we’ve raised more than $50M in aggregate from investors like Tiger Global Management and Wildcat Ventures. Our impact has been externally proven in a 2021 RAND Corporation study and featured as a Harvard Business School (HBS) case study.
We are looking for a General Counsel who will own the legal and compliance functions at Carrum and be crucial in providing legal advice, ensuring compliance in a highly regulated industry, and helping us ensure that we balance risk and business goals effectively. Reporting to the CFO, you will be responsible for all aspects of the legal function, including contracting, legal strategy, compliance, corporate governance, and executive leadership. The GC will play a critical role in our success.
Reporting to the CFO you will own the legal and compliance functions at Carrum and be crucial in providing legal advice, ensuring compliance in a highly regulated industry, and helping us ensure that we balance risk and business goals effectively. You’ll be responsible for all aspects of the legal function, including contracting, legal strategy, compliance, corporate governance, and executive leadership.
The salary range for this role is $270,000 - $300,000 depending on geography and level of experience, plus equity and an annual bonus.
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will...
- Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement the company’s legal strategy in alignment with business objectives. Advise the executive team and board on key legal and regulatory issues impacting the company. Represent the company in legal proceedings and negotiations.
- Risk Management: Responsible for comprehensive legal risk management, focusing on mitigating regulatory, operational, and technological risks across the organization. Develop and implement robust risk management frameworks, provide strategic legal guidance to the executive team, and ensure compliance with complex healthcare regulations while supporting the company's innovative growth objectives.
- Contract Management: Manage the review, drafting, and negotiation of complex contracts and agreements, including contracts with employers, partners, providers, and vendors. Provide legal guidance on contractual obligations and risk management. Ensure proper documentation and compliance with contractual terms.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards. Oversee internal policies and procedures to mitigate legal risks. Monitor changes in legislation and regulations that may affect the company’s operations. Partner with Human Resources as needed on internal investigations and other matters. Oversee company certification and audit programs, including HIPAA, HITRUST and SOC2, and manage internal team to ensure proper monitoring and audit processes are in place.
- Corporate Governance: Provide legal support to the Board of Directors and its committees. Oversee corporate governance practices and ensure adherence to best practices. Manage the company’s legal documentation, including corporate records and contracts.
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing legal and compliance team. Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment. Oversee departmental budget and resources. Manage outside counsel relationships and budget.
We’re excited about you because…
- Juris Doctorate with active bar membership in good standing
- 10-15+ years of business/healthcare law experience at an AmLaw 100 law firm and/or corporate legal department, including relevant previous experience in healthcare regulations and transactions, ERISA, privacy, data use, corporate compliance and general corporate governance .
- Prior experience as a general counsel or deputy general counsel desired
- Prior experience working in a venture capital or private equity backed organization is preferred
- Proven track record of project and process development, implementation, and project management.
- Proven ability to lead and function as a member of a small team
- Demonstrated experience providing legal advice in a highly regulated industry that includes identifying and resolving legal and regulatory issues quickly and effectively, with an ability to make real-time decisions.
- Demonstrated experience prioritizing conflicting demands from multiple internal business clients in an extremely fast-paced environment. Prior experience providing legal support to a sales team is highly preferred
- Experience in the healthcare industry.
- Demonstrated experience providing legal advice in a highly regulated environment.
- Excellent influencing skills combined with an ability to build strong working relationships within a matrix environment.
- Advanced communication skills - both written and verbal.
- Demonstrated ability to think and lead on a strategic level within a complex organization
- Ability to deal effectively with people and work in diverse teams virtually.
- Level-headed approach to risk and managing such risk against business objectives.
Why you’ll love working with us...
- We’re a hard-working, humble, and compassionate group motivated to solve the hard problems in healthcare today. You’ll work with talented, experienced co-workers from companies like Booz & Company, Livongo, 98point6, Google, and Optum. We believe in using data to inform decisions, technology to make our jobs easier, and creative thinking to pave the future.
- We are working with some of the most recognized and esteemed names in the country. Top hospitals like Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, Stanford Health Care, Scripps Health, and Rush Health have joined our platform. Employers who use our benefit include Walgreens, US Foods, United Airlines, and large public sector organizations like the self-insured schools of California, and the State of Maine.
- We empower team members to be autonomous and provide a collaborative environment where you get support and healthy feedback. You can bring your authentic self to work every day and are encouraged to help others do the same.
- We carve out time to let go of work to celebrate our successes and have fun. We’re all working remotely right now, but prior to the pandemic a few of the monthly activities we enjoyed included group dinners, bowling, and hiking. Now we bring the fun online with holiday costume contests, arts and crafts activities, musical events, weekly meditations, and gratitude sessions.
- You’ll feel proud that the work you do each day directly impacts people’s lives in big and meaningful ways.
Other benefits:
- Stock option plan
- Flexible schedules and remote work
- Chicago and San Francisco offices available
- Self-managed vacation days, within reason
- Paid parental leave
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- 401K retirement plan
About Carrum
We’re a health tech company that brings value-based care to the masses. We help employers deliver a memorable patient experience, immediately lower healthcare costs, and drive better outcomes and achieve this through the power of technology and human-centered design. Since launching in 2014, we’ve partnered with Fortune 500 employers and top hospitals across the nation. We’ve been recognized by Harvard Business School and featured in TechCrunch, The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Modern Healthcare. We believe we’re only scratching the surface of our opportunity and we’re looking for incredible people like you to help us realize our full impact.
Carrum Health is an equal opportunity employer and encourages all applicants from every background and life experience.
What We Do
Healthcare is unreasonably complex and costly. At Carrum Health, we’re applying a common sense approach to simplify the payment model and produce greater value for employers and their employees. We do so by directly connecting progressive self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through the industry’s first comprehensive bundled payment solution. Our innovative platform reimagines how care is paid for and delivered, improving the value of health benefits for employers and their members. Carrum’s solution is a “win” for all parties, a rarity in healthcare: - Employers achieve significant cost savings and predictability without risk or hassle. - Members receive top-quality care and a concierge experience for zero out-of-pocket costs so they can focus on recovery instead of medical bills. - Providers gain streamlined administration allowing them to do what they do best – deliver expert care. For more information about Carrum Health, please contact [email protected].
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