Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HealthEquity is a healthcare and financial services company focused on empowering healthcare consumers and expanding access to health savings accounts and consumer-directed benefits. The Associate General Counsel, Product & Growth will lead legal strategy for new products, services, strategic partnerships, and growth initiatives, providing regulatory, intellectual property, risk management, and practical business guidance to internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Manages and carries out the personnel actions for direct reports, including but not limited to hiring and scheduling; training and evaluating; coaching and managing performance; making salary, merit, or other compensation recommendations for team of direct reports; and making recommendations and/or taking corrective or disciplinary action as appropriate
- Advise on complex legal and regulatory issues relating to consumer facing products and services
- Review, draft and negotiate agreements and provisions relating to strategic commercial partnerships, and new products and services
- Assess legal risk associated with new products and services, align with internal stakeholders quickly, recommend safeguards, and guide business teams toward compliance and practical solutions
- Embed Legal team partnership through the new product development lifecycle
- Partner and collaborate with other internal and external counsel and various teams to understand regulatory, product, engineering, design and operational implications of new products and services
- Mature and maintain an intellectual property management program and partner with the People and Product teams in developing innovative frameworks for IP development
- Translate new and emerging laws into actionable, effective legal guidance
- Identify and support process improvements to promote agility in legal and related business operations
Skills
- J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school with an active license to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- 10+ years of experience advising on product development in regulated industries at a top law firm or with a combination of applicable in-house legal work
- Experience advising all levels of management, including C-suite executives, and board members on new product development and strategic partnerships with clear presentation of risks, potential impacts, solutions and risk management strategies
- Experience advising on new products and services within the banking/finance and healthcare industries
- Experience in regulated industries and data privacy regulatory compliance
- Experience in marketplaces
- Ability to synthesize complex legal issues, issue spot, engage appropriate subject matter expertise and provide practical risk management advice
- Ability to learn new regulatory regimes quickly and apply practical guidance for the team
- Ability to identify solutions and drive the business forward
- Ideal candidate will have expertise in UDAP, financial regulations, ERISA welfare benefit plans, HSAs and other consumer directed benefits, GLBA and HIPAA
- Familiarity with evolving federal and state regulations related to HSAs and consumer-directed benefits
- Team attitude that no job is too big or too small
- Thrives in a 'roll-up your sleeves and own the outcome' environment
- Ability to strike sensible and practical balance between legal risks and the need to do business
- Adept at working in a fast-paced, high activity environment with smart and creative people
- Strong ability to influence, provide point of view, and to listen
- Ability to deliver strategic insights to compliance teams and shape governance structures for new products
- Capacity to quickly understand complex business models and technology trends, aligning legal requirements and anticipated regulations with business strategy to 'Future proof' business operations
- Growth mindset with an openness to new ideas, diverse perspectives, and unconventional solutions
- Strong ability to influence, provide point of view, and to listen
- Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills and ability to work effectively work with various departments and levels within HealthEquity (including senior management)
- Excellent judgment, attention to detail, and ability to handle sensitive and confidential information
- Ability to handle ambiguity, juggle many matters at once, and quickly shift from one situation or task to another
- Solution oriented and talent for thinking outside of the box in confronting new issues and pursuing novel approaches to old problems
Benefits
- Performance-based incentives
- Restricted stock units
- Medical, dental, and vision
- HSA contribution and match
- Dependent care FSA match
- Uncapped paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- 401(k) match
- Personal and healthcare financial literacy programs
- Ongoing education & tuition assistance
- Gym and fitness reimbursement
- Wellness program incentives
- Remote role
- HealthEquity covers all required travel and accommodations for onsite Trailhead onboarding
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