Vice President of Deputy General Counsel, Cedar
$272-340k
+ Equity
AI-powered platform that helps patients afford and navigate healthcare payments
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AI-powered platform that helps patients afford and navigate healthcare payments
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$272-340k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower us all to easily and affordably pursue the care we need.
Role
Who you are
- JD Degree from an accredited law school and license in good standing to practice law in at least one state bar
- 15+ years relevant legal experience at a top law firm and/or in-house (a combination is a plus), with experience managing other people and a minimum of 5 years focused experience in healthcare technology transactions and/or enterprise SaaS. Experience with AI contracting, employment law and/or insurance experience is a strong plus
- Previous experience in tech/start-up/emerging growth companies preferred
- A caring and motivational manager, capable of attracting, developing and advancing great talent and leading a distributed team, drawing on strengths to achieve common goals
- Excellent commercial negotiation and drafting skills, including prior experience building and maintaining contract templates
- You get excited about plain English legal drafting and process building, the use of technology to improve legal services, and how to make contracting more straightforward and streamlined
- Keen business and legal judgment. You know when to say yes or no, but you also know when to escalate concerns, consult a colleague or talk someone through a complex issue
- You value commercial relationships, and have experience in managing and negotiating directly with other large organizations and their in-house legal departments
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Vice President, Deputy General Counsel to join our Legal & Compliance Team
- This role will lead our legal team supporting corporate, commercial, employment and insurance
- Ideal for a hand-ons, and experienced enterprise commercial counsel who also enjoys a broad mix of day to day work and managing and building a small team focused on the same goals
- The role will be responsible for supporting Cedar’s commercial sales and strategic partnerships, vendor contracting, and corporate legal support for the company, including strategic transactions, cap table and equity administration, board & corporate governance, and day-to-day corporate matters as they arise, as well as overseeing and supporting employment law issues
- This role reports into the General Counsel
- At Cedar, we offer customizable, enterprise solutions aimed at improving the healthcare experience for Americans, so our commercial agreements are large, complex and highly negotiated
- This is a unique opportunity to lead these efforts on behalf of the Legal & Compliance Team, and so we need a strong corporate counsel with strong drafting and negotiation skills, who enjoys and excels at their craft and is a solid strategic partner to the business, and also overseeing and teaching this craft
- Support business teams in structuring, drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements, particularly Cedar’s commercial sales, vendor partnerships and strategic transactions
- Provide assistance with corporate legal matters, such as cap table and equity administration, board meeting preparation, corporate approvals, partnership and advisor agreements, fundraising, M&A, and insurance
- Oversee and support employment law matters, including managing part time employment support and outside counsel
- Develop, refine and keep up to date standard templates for Cedar’s business, including standard commercial contracts (MSA, SOWs, order forms), NDAs, license agreements, advisor and consulting agreements, etc
- Partner with our operations and other teams to improve and evolve our CLM tools and legal processes to leverage technology and derive business intelligence from commercial contracts
- Support business teams in a wide range of contracts, including customer agreements, vendor agreements, service level/support agreements, software license agreements, consultant agreements, marketing agreements, and non-disclosure agreements
- Manage, guide, mentor, and develop a team of legal professionals
- Oversee and engage outside supplemental legal resources (like Axiom) and outside counsel
- Contribute as a team player to help further the status of the Legal & Compliance department as an effective, respected, and valued resource within the company
- Periodic travel to New York and other locations for company and team meetings (typically ~1x per quarter)
Our take
Over $1 billion is said to be lost annually by physicians as a result of inefficient and disjointed healthcare billing practices. The subsequently low patient satisfaction rates lead to poorer care, and real losses for providers who see patients switching away from their plans.
Cedar looks to remedy these issues with a selection of consumer-facing services which streamline billing, insurance and healthcare processes. Healthcare billing concerns a huge percentage of US adults, so optimizing patient satisfaction is of increasing concern - a great opportunity for the company.
After acquiring competing patient finance streamlining service OODA Health in 2021, Cedar netted substantial funds and launched its Payer Intelligence Layer. This allows it to integrate data from insurers and providers to create a single source of information. The company was also endorsed by the Montana Hospital Association's shared services division, to be listed as its only preferred patient financial engagement technology.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2022
$68.4m
SERIES D
Mar 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $394.4m
Company benefits
- Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- Multiple health / dental / vision insurance options
- Office in Manhattan
- Free lunch, healthy snacks, cold brew and kombucha on tap (Yup!)
- Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year
- 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)
- Equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on your first day
- 401k plan with 3% employer non-election contribution
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a stipend for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
- Up to $10,000 in reimbursement through Carrot Fertility to support comprehensive, inclusive care for family-forming and reproductive health journeys
- Constant learning and development opportunities
- Resources for mental and physical wellbeing
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Leadership
Arel Lidow
(Co-Founder)Previously VP of product at AppNexus where they supervised the development and launch of the company’s flagship products. Began their career as a technology associate at Bridgewater Associates, working on trading systems for the world’s largest hedge fund.
Dr. Florian Otto
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an executive at Zocdoc where they drove the commercial adoption of the platform. Also founded a daily deal company in Brazil (ClubeUrbano) that was eventually acquired by Groupon. Began their business career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company.
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