Commercial Counsel

The posting, as Cedar wrote it

Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S.

Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience.

The Role

Cedar is seeking a Commercial Counsel to join our Legal & Compliance Team. This role is ideal for a technology transactions attorney with 4+ years of enterprise cloud and technology experience who is a skilled drafter and capable dealmaker and is excited to help build how a modern legal team works with AI. You will join a highly collaborative Cedar Legal & Compliance team and serve as a go-to legal partner to Cedar’s growth, client management, sales, strategic partnerships, and vendor contracting teams, owning a portfolio of complex deals from structuring to signature. You will also help shape the playbooks, templates, and AI-enabled workflows the rest of the team relies on. Growth opportunities in the role based on your skills, experience, and interests may include product counseling, privacy, compliance, marketing, and general corporate matters, with guidance from experienced colleagues.

At Cedar, we offer customizable, enterprise solutions to leading health systems aimed at improving the healthcare financial experience for Americans, so our commercial agreements are large, complex and highly negotiated. This is a unique opportunity for you to work on high-stakes deals while helping curate the tech- and AI-forward tools and practices that help our team scale. You will have real latitude to improve our contracting process, grow your skills, get regular coaching and feedback, put new tools into practice, and see the direct impact of your work on deal velocity and our business.

Responsibilities

• Commercial Transactions: Structure, draft, and negotiate complex sales, vendor, and strategic partnership agreements, including Master Services Agreements (MSAs), HIPAA Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), license agreements, and consulting agreements. Own a portfolio of assigned matters from intake through execution, manage competing deadlines, and partner with product, privacy, and compliance legal colleagues for specialist support.
• Business Counseling: Serve as a trusted and pragmatic legal advisor to sales, finance, procurement, and business development teams on deal structures and commercial terms, including AI, technology licensing, forward-deployed engineering engagements, data rights, go-to-market activities, and more.
• Technology, Ops, & AI Enablement: Partner with

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ending on what works best for you

• For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance, that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally

About us

Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. "Over the past several years, we've raised more than $350 million in funding & have the active support of Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

As of November 2024, Cedar is engaging with 26 million patients annually and is on target to process $3.5 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar partners with more than 55 leading healthcare providers and payers including Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, Novant Health, Allina Health and Providence.