Senior Counsel, Privacy & Healthcare Regulatory

Our client, Smith Rx, is seeking a Senior Counsel, Privacy & Healthcare Regulatory.

About Smith Rx:

Smith Rx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company. Their mission is to disrupt the expensive and inefficient Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) sector by building a next-generation drug acquisition platform driven by cutting-edge technology, innovative cost-saving tools, and best-in-class customer service. With hundreds of thousands of members onboarded since 2016, Smith Rx has a solution that is resonating with clients all across the country.

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RX prides itself on its mission-driven and collaborative culture that inspires its employees to do their best work. They believe that the U.S healthcare system needs transformation, and they come to work each day dedicated to making that change a reality. At their core, they are guided by their company values of:

• Integrity: Our purpose guides our actions and gives us confidence in the path ahead. With unwavering honesty and dependability, we embrace the pressure of challenging the old and exemplify ethical leadership to create the new.
• Courage: We face continuous challenges with grit and resilience. We embrace the discomfort of the unknown by balancing autonomy with empathy, and ownership with vulnerability. We boldly challenge the status quo to keep moving forward—always.
• Together: The success of Smith Rx reflects the strength of our partnerships and the commitment of our team. Our shared values bind us together and make us one. When one falls, we all fall; when one rises, we all rise.

About this role:

Smith Rx is looking for a Senior Counsel, Privacy & Healthcare Regulatory, who will be responsible for privacy, healthcare regulatory, and compliance issues impacting Smith Rx. Reporting to the General Counsel, this candidate will be responsible for all strategic and day-to-day privacy matters for the company. You will help ensure Smith Rx maintains strong privacy and data protection practices, including the responsible handling of sensitive health information in alignment with applicable privacy laws and internal policies.

You will also review and analyze applicable federal and state laws and regulations in order to provide corporate compliance and risk mitigation guidance to various functions in the company, including the Product and Engineering team, Clinical Strategy team, and Customer Success team. You will oversee Smith Rx’s relationships with various administrative agencies and regulators, including responding to regulatory inquiries. You will also assess and provide guidance from a healthcare regulatory standpoint for new products, services, and strategies to ensure that Smith Rx’s innovative pathways to reduce drug costs are in compliance with applicable law and properly captured in commercial agreements.

You will have the opportunity to work on other legal matters as needed as part of a lean, efficient legal organization.

The successful candidate will have a passion for impacting the U.S. healthcare ecosystem and is excited for the challenge of helping build the legal function at a high-growth healthcare technology company.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with, and provide strategic and legal advice to, various cross-functional teams, including the Product and Engineering, Clinical Strategy, and Customer Success teams
• Provide tailored advice on privacy and data protection laws and emerging AI regulatory frameworks, bearing in mind privacy by design and privacy by default principles.
• Advise on all aspects of US healthcare privacy laws and regulations, including HIPAA and HITECH.
• Oversee Smith Rx’s regulatory compliance posture with various government regulatory agencies, including handling periodic required regulatory filings and responding to regulatory inquiries as necessary
• Review, analyze, and advise business leaders regarding new and existing federal and state laws and regulations applicable to Smith Rx’s products and services
• Work with the Product, Engineering, and Clinical Strategy teams to develop new products and services to deliver cost savings to Smith Rx’s clients
• Work with the Revenue team and Commercial Counsel to draft…