Associate General Counsel, Product

Associate General Counsel, Product

Location:

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

Hinge Health is seeking an Associate General Counsel, Product to serve as a strategic, practical, and business-enabling legal partner to our Product, Engineering, Clinical, Commercial, Privacy, Compliance, and other cross‑functional teams.

You will help Hinge Health bring innovative digital health products and services to market responsibly, advising from early product concepts through launch, commercialization, and scaling. This role will counsel on the legal and regulatory issues that arise in a healthcare technology business serving employers, health plans, and their members—including healthcare privacy and HIPAA, corporate practice of medicine, and the operational and legal considerations of a “friendly PC” operating model.

This is a high‑impact role for an experienced attorney with management experience who can navigate ambiguity, build trust with a wide range of stakeholders, and translate complex legal requirements into clear, actionable guidance. You will help the business move quickly without losing sight of patient care, member trust, clinical independence, and responsible risk management.

• In your first 3 months:
  Build strong working relationships with Product, Engineering, Clinical, Privacy, Compliance, Commercial, and executive stakeholders; develop a deep understanding of Hinge Health’s products, care model, employer and health‑plan partnerships, and medical‑entity structure; provide a fresh perspective on key product, privacy, healthcare regulatory, CPOM, FWA, and friendly‑PC legal considerations and identify opportunities to improve playbooks, templates, training, and decision frameworks.

• In your first 6 months:
  Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and become a go‑to advisor who can clearly articulate risk, options, and recommendations – even when the right path is not obvious or stakeholders have competing priorities; serve as a primary legal partner on high‑priority product initiatives, advising teams through discovery, design, testing, launch, marketing, and ongoing iteration; provide practical advice on HIPAA and other healthcare privacy requirements, data use and sharing, member‑facing experiences, clinical workflows, and the legal implications of new technologies and care delivery models;
  
  mentor and develop members of the Legal team, and contribute to a high‑performing, collaborative legal function through thoughtful delegation, feedback, knowledge sharing, and team leadership.

• In your first year:
  Shape a scalable product legal strategy and operating model that anticipates regulatory change, reduces friction for product teams, and enables responsible growth across employer and health‑plan channels.

• You must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Serve as a primary legal advisor for product, engineering, clinical, privacy, compliance, commercial, and executive teams.

• Advise throughout the product lifecycle, including strategy, design, testing, launch, commercialization, marketing, and post‑launch changes.

• Provide practical guidance on healthcare regulation, HIPAA, data use, privacy, clinical workflows, and emerging technologies.

• Identify, prioritize, and clearly communicate material legal risks, options, and recommendations.

• Support medical‑entity governance, friendly‑PC structures, and related intercompany arrangements.

• Develop scalable legal processes, playbooks, templates, training, and decision frameworks.

• Lead concurrent legal work streams while responding effectively to changing priorities and incomplete information.

• Build trusted cross‑functional relationships and influence decisions…