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Salary: USD 220,000 - 245,000 / annual
Cadence is a clinical AI company automating chronic disease treatment. The company's Clinical Intelligence platform handles routine, high-volume chronic care work—monitoring patients, surfacing risks, and coordinating action—so clinicians can focus on decisions requiring human judgment. Grounded in partnerships with 20+ leading health systems, deep EMR integrations, and experience serving 100,000+ patients, the platform learns from real-world care delivery and improves as it scales. Cadence has been recognized by TIME as a Top 100 HealthTech Company and by LinkedIn as a Top Startup (#4, 2025).
You will own and scale Cadence's contracting function across health system partnerships and vendor relationships, ensuring agreements support rapid growth while maintaining compliance with healthcare regulatory requirements. This is a mission-critical role at the intersection of legal strategy and healthcare operations.
Key responsibilities:
- Own the full lifecycle of commercial contracts with health systems and partners: drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and closing. Serve as final legal reviewer on non-standard and high-risk terms within your approval authority.
- Own all vendor contracts and third-party relationships, including SaaS agreements, service contracts, licensing agreements, data processing agreements, and procurement-related contracts.
- Define the vendor review process with finance, security, and compliance teams. Set operational, regulatory, and information security standards third parties must meet.
- Build and own contracting playbooks, templates, clause libraries, and standard negotiation positions that enable sales and procurement teams to move quickly while protecting Cadence's interests.
- Manage the existing contract portfolio, including amendments, renewals, and partner/vendor inquiries. Build obligation-tracking processes to keep commitments visible and met.
- Advise senior business leaders on healthcare regulatory risk in deal structures, including Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, Civil Monetary Penalties, and state licensure requirements. Recommend how Cadence structures new deal types as service lines and Medicare reimbursement frameworks evolve.
- Mentor sales, partnerships, and procurement teams on contract risk and playbook use. Set escalation paths determining when deals need legal review.
You will collaborate across sales, partnerships, clinical, finance, security, compliance, and operations teams to deliver work that directly enables Cadence to expand access to proactive, tech-enabled care for patients with chronic conditions.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of experience handling commercial contracts in-house and/or at a law firm, with strong preference for healthcare or life sciences experience. Experience on both sell-side (customer/partner agreements) and buy-side (vendor/procurement contracts) preferred.
- Working knowledge of federal and state healthcare regulations, including Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, and clinical licensure and scope-of-practice requirements. HIPAA and privacy law experience a plus. Experience contracting with payers a plus.
- Experience building or improving contracting processes, including playbooks, clause libraries, or template suites that support a scaling organization.
- JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- Commercial attorney with healthcare experience who thrives in high-velocity, mission-driven environments and is comfortable owning the contracting function with minimal oversight.
- Fluency with AI research and productivity tools and ability to evaluate AI-driven insights critically, distinguishing signal from noise in a fast-moving information environment.
