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Hazel Health is seeking a Head of Legal and Compliance to serve as the company's senior in-house lawyer and compliance leader. This is a hands-on leadership role reporting to the VP of People & Operations with direct access to the CEO, senior leadership team, and Board.
You will provide practical legal advice across healthcare regulatory matters, corporate governance, employment, commercial contracts, privacy, enterprise compliance and risk management. A central first-year mandate is to reduce reliance on outside counsel without sacrificing rigor by bringing high-volume repeatable work in-house, establishing templates and playbooks, improving matter intake and budgeting, and building a disciplined legal operating model.
Key responsibilities include:
**Legal Operating Model & Outside Counsel Spend**: Lead structured review of legal matters and spend; determine what moves in-house versus remains with specialized firms. Establish matter intake, budgets, billing guidelines, preferred-counsel relationships and alternative fee arrangements to deliver measurable reductions in outside legal spend.
**Commercial Contracts**: Own legal strategy and negotiation for district and health-plan customer agreements, payer contracts, partnership agreements and material vendor MSAs. Build practical templates, fallback positions and escalation thresholds so routine work moves quickly.
**Healthcare Regulatory & Telehealth**: Advise on legal and regulatory requirements affecting mental and physical health services, including telehealth, provider licensure, scope of practice, prescribing, corporate-practice-of-medicine considerations and boundaries between administrative and clinical decision-making.
**Entity Structure & Corporate Governance**: Maintain Hazel's multi-entity legal architecture, including MSO/PC structure, PC owner arrangements, intercompany services, lease agreements, foreign qualifications and governance records.
**Compliance Program & Governance**: Lead enterprise compliance program and maturity roadmap, including policies, training, monitoring, reporting, investigations and corrective actions. Steward Compliance Committee and regular Board reporting.
**Privacy, Security & Data Governance**: Serve as or oversee Privacy Officer role; advise on HIPAA, FERPA, state student-data privacy, data use, vendor obligations and responsible AI governance.
**Employment & Workforce Matters**: Partner with People leadership on reductions in force, WARN analysis, separations, releases, investigations, leave and accommodations.
Hazel Health is the largest front door to pediatric care, partnering with K-12 schools and health plans to provide whole-child mental and physical health services. The company is entering a new chapter as a leaner, AI-forward organization focused on high-impact work supported by modern systems and tech-enabled processes.
