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Function Health is an AI-powered health operating system that empowers individuals to understand, measure, and improve their health through comprehensive lab testing, imaging, longitudinal data, and AI-guided insights. Recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2024 and backed by Redpoint and other leading venture firms, Function has over half a million members and recently announced a $298M Series B.
The Corporate Counsel, Commercial & Employment role is a key legal position supporting Function's scaling operations. This attorney will serve as a trusted partner across the business, with primary responsibility for drafting, negotiating, and advising on a broad range of commercial agreements while also supporting employment-related legal matters.
Key responsibilities include:
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements including customer, vendor, partnership, services, SaaS, technology, licensing, and confidentiality agreements
- Provide practical, commercially minded legal counsel that balances business objectives with appropriate risk management
- Partner with stakeholders across Sales, Partnerships, Marketing, Product, People, Finance, and Operations to structure and negotiate complex commercial relationships
- Develop deep understanding of Function's products, business model, and strategic priorities to provide proactive legal guidance
- Support the People team on employment-related legal matters including employee relations, policies, performance and separation matters
- Identify emerging legal risks and translate complex legal issues into clear, actionable guidance for business stakeholders
- Develop and improve contract templates, playbooks, policies, and legal operations to enable team scaling
- Manage outside counsel strategically when specialized expertise is required
- Identify opportunities to improve processes and leverage AI-enabled tools for efficiency
The ideal candidate combines strong legal judgment with a practical, business-oriented approach and thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar
- Approximately 5+ years of relevant legal experience, ideally combining experience at a leading law firm and/or an in-house legal team at a high-growth technology company
- Significant experience drafting and negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements
- Strong understanding of commercial contracting principles and ability to independently manage agreements from initial review through execution
- Experience advising on employment matters strongly preferred
- Excellent legal judgment with ability to assess risk in context of broader business objectives
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly to non-legal stakeholders
- Comfortable operating autonomously in fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities evolve quickly
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills and solutions-oriented approach
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve processes and use technology, including AI-enabled tools, for efficiency
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience supporting healthcare, health-tech, technology, SaaS, or consumer business
- Experience negotiating agreements involving enterprise customers, strategic partnerships, technology, data, or other complex commercial relationships
- Exposure to privacy, product counseling, healthcare regulatory matters, or issues relevant to technology-enabled healthcare business
- Experience building contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval frameworks, or other scalable legal processes
- Day-to-day usage of CLM to manage contract workflows, document management, and recordkeeping
- Experience working closely with People teams on employment-related matters
