Corporate and Compliance Counsel

About the Opportunity

Cleerly is recruiting a Corporate and Commercial Compliance Counsel to support our expanding commercial operations and comprehensive healthcare compliance framework. This role serves as a key legal partner across commercial sales, marketing, regulatory, market access, scientific affairs, and executive leadership responsible for structuring commercial relationships, managing healthcare regulatory risk, and building scalable legal processes. The candidate will oversee commercial contracting, ensure strict adherence to federal and state healthcare laws and regulations, manage privacy and data protection standards, and advise on strategic healthcare partnerships. This role combines hands-on contracting with healthcare compliance counseling. The ideal candidate translates complex requirements into clear advice that supports responsible growth.  The ideal candidate will have at least 8 years of relevant legal and compliance experience in a major law firm or in-house within the healthcare, life sciences, or medical device industry. This position is fully remote with occasional travel required.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate agreements with health systems, physician practices, imaging providers, payors, channel partners, and vendors, including master service agreements, business associate agreements, data-use agreements, and strategic partnerships.
• Draft, review and negotiate research agreements with external sponsors, including clinical trial agreements, research grant agreements, investigator-initiated agreements, core lab services, and data licensing agreements. 
• Provide advice and counsel to commercial, scientific affairs, regulatory and other relevant functions on strategies, policies, and practices with respect to compliance with relevant healthcare laws, guidance documents or opinions, and industry codes (including FDCA, fraud and abuse laws, Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, Sunshine Act, HIPAA, FDA guidance documents, and OIG advisory opinions, etc.)
• Assess commercial arrangements involving healthcare professionals, including consulting, advisory, educational, and research relationships.
• Counsel internal clients on a wide range of privacy matters, including permissible data uses for strategic initiatives and the application of privacy laws (including HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA and other state data privacy laws) to current business processes, new product development, research collaborations and commercial relationships.
• Develop and oversee implementation of policies with respect to healthcare and privacy law compliance, privacy management, and data governance. 
• Lead collaboration with information security on various data security initiatives, risk management, third party audits/certifications, and vendor assessments.
• Prepare the Company for potential cybersecurity or privacy incidents.
• Provide ad hoc legal support on other projects within the legal department as needed (e.g., employment law; litigation).

Skills and Abilities: 

• Organization: Strong organizational skills to prioritize and maintain flexibility in a fast-paced environment.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to identify issues and develop proactive, professional solutions.
• Communication: Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Liaison: Proven ability to liaise effectively with outside counsel, opposing counsel and regulatory authorities.

Requirements

• JD degree from an ABA-accredited law school and active state bar admission.
• 8+ years of relevant legal and compliance experience at a law firm or in-house.
• Healthcare industry experience required (medical device, pharma, or life sciences).
• Combination of major law firm and in-house experience, including substantial healthcare regulatory counseling and commercial contracting.
• In-house experience at a healthcare technology, medical device, diagnostic, digital health, or other regulated healthcare company strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare compliance, including healthcare fraud and abuse laws, FDA promotional requirements, Advamed principles, HCP/HCO interactions, HIPAA, transparency and privacy requirements.
• Experience developing compliance processes and scalable contracting tools in a growth-stage business.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently within a lean legal team.
• Strong legal analysis, business judgment, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to translate complex legal requirements into clear, practical recommendations and to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

The base salary range for this role varies by location and is aligned to market benchmarks.

• Candidates located in higher-cost labor markets, including California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC represent the middle to high end of the range, while candidates located in all other U.S. locations represent the low to middle end of the range.
• Final compensation is determined based on location, experience, skills, and internal equity.

This role is eligible for a 15% target annual bonus, resulting in the following base salary and Total Target Compensation (TTC) ranges:

• Base Salary: $225,000-$265,000

*Total Target Compensation (TTC): Total Cash Compensation (including base pay, variable pay, commission, bonuses, etc.) Additionally, stock options, paid benefits, and employee perks are part of your total rewards.