Assistant General Counsel, Commercial Contracts (AI, Data & IP)

The posting, as Machinify wrote it

Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country. Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives, Machinify brings together a fully configurable and content-rich, AI-powered platform along with best-in-class expertise. We’re constantly reimagining what’s possible in our industry, creating disruptively simple, powerfully clear ways to maximize financial outcomes and drive down healthcare costs.

The Role

We are hiring an Assistant General Counsel to own how AI, data, and related IP terms are drafted and negotiated across our commercial agreements. You will report to the Deputy General Counsel and partner with them on the full commercial portfolio, but the center of gravity of this role is the set of issues that decide whether a Machinify deal works: what our customers' data can be used for, how model training and outputs are governed, how PHI moves and is protected, and how our intellectual property is defined and preserved.

Machinify has a Chief Privacy Officer and a compliance function that set our privacy, security, and regulatory positions. This role does not own those programs. It is the person who turns their guidance into contract language that holds up at the negotiating table — and who brings real deal friction back to them so the standard can be adjusted with full information.

This is a hands-on drafting and negotiating job. You will sit across the table from health plan counsel and procurement teams, work alongside Sales and Client Success on live deals, and sit with product and engineering to make sure the contract terms and the product match.

What You'll Do

AI and data rights

• Own the AI provisions in customer, partner, and vendor agreements — training and improvement rights, de-identification and aggregation, model and output ownership, human oversight, performance and accuracy commitments, transparency and explainability obligations, and allocation of AI-specific risk.
• Draft and maintain the company's standard AI contract language and the fallback positions behind it, so deal teams know what is standard, what is negotiable, and what requires escalation.
• Negotiate data use and data rights terms with sophisticated health plan customers, including secondary use, derived data, retention and deletion, and downstream restrictions.
• Advise product and engineering on new AI features before launch — what the contracts permit, what the contracts would need to say, and where a design choice creates a legal constraint.
• Track AI regulation and health-sector AI guidance to enable translating it into contract language and product guidance, not just memos.

Translating privacy, security, and compliance requirements into contract terms

• Take the positions set by the Chief Privacy Officer, Compliance, and Information

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• Familiarity with emerging AI governance frameworks and how they land in a regulated industry.

How We Work

• Small legal team, direct access to the business, and no layers between you and the decision.
• Clear, fast answers are valued over exhaustive ones. We flag what matters and move.
• You will be asked for a recommendation, not a list of considerations.
• Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and Information Security operate as one group. Each function owns its standard; everyone is expected to make the others' standards work in practice.

What We Offer

• Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.

Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings

FSA/HSA

Tuition reimbursement

Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match

Additional health and wellness benefits and perks

• Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work

The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc. We are hiring for different levels, and our Recruiting team will let you know if you qualify for a different role/range.

Pay range: $225,000 - $250,000 + Annual Bonus

Equal Employment Opportunity at Machinify

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Machinify is an employment at will employer. We participate in E-Verify as required by applicable law. In accordance with applicable state laws, we do not inquire about salary history during the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruitment process, please let our recruiters know. See our Candidate Privacy Notice at: https://www.machinify.com/candidate-privacy-notice/