Assistant General Counsel, Abridge
Corporate
$220-255k
Offers Equity
Tues, Wed, Thurs in-office
3 days a week in office
Powering deeper understanding in healthcare through purpose-built AI
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Powering deeper understanding in healthcare through purpose-built AI
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-255k
Offers Equity
Tues, Wed, Thurs in-office
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To power a deeper understanding in healthcare.
Role
Who you are
- Passion for Abridge’s mission and the energy and drive to support a fast-moving product and operational teams
- 10+ years of legal experience, including 5+ years in a broad spectrum of corporate work for fast-growing startups including M&A, capital markets, IP portfolio, corporate governance, and employment
- Proven ability to communicate and translate complex regulatory and legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-legal counterparts and colleagues
- Comfort and confidence with juggling a high volume of projects, tight timelines, and competing priorities
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and exercise business judgement; interest in joining a small team that prioritizes autonomy and trust
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally, particularly with executive teams, corporate boards, technical teams, and commercial teams, building relationships and earning their confidence
- Creativity in solving and navigating novel legal matters; experience in crafting new approaches to meet the needs of a rapidly-moving enterprise in a novel industry
Desirable
- Strong preference for prior in-house, government, or law firm experience focused on healthcare or healthcare technology
- Familiarity with recent trends in artificial intelligence, particularly with large language models
What the job involves
- As Assistant General Counsel, you will be the first hire helping to lead and build a new department within Abridge Legal responsible for handling the company’s corporate matters
- This includes a wide spectrum of work embracing financings, major transactions, corporate governance, intellectual property, and employment, among the other needs of a fast-growing technology startup
- You will report to the General Counsel. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of AI in healthcare
- Work closely with our CFO and CEO to navigate corporate governance matters, financings and investor relations
- Support the General Counsel and executive team on any corporate development activity
- Help to develop Abridge’s IP strategy and manage its intellectual property portfolio
- Serve as the main legal point person on human resource and employment matters
- Work cross-functionally within the Legal team, coordinating with our Commercial, Product, and Public Policy functions to achieve the best results
- Coordinate and manage outside counsel in tackling these projects, presenting to the Board of Directors as needed on the same
Our take
Summarising key elements of healthcare conversations is crucial for both physicians and patients. Medical scribes, though effective, are costly, and the healthcare system faces funding and staffing crises. This has created a demand for more efficient notetaking solutions.
This is where Abridge comes in; it has developed a HIPAA-compliant AI platform that transcribes, structures, summarises, and provides insights from audio or transcripts of medical conversations. It claims to work across all specialities and offers patient-friendly summaries in easy-to-understand language.
Abridge aims to alleviate pressure on the healthcare system from the patient's perspective, a unique approach among healthtech startups. While companies like Inovia, DOUB, and DeepScribe focus on assisting physicians with medical transcription AI, they lack Abridge's patient-centric features, which are valuable in enhancing the patient experience. Its unique focus, then, is part of the reason why it enjoyed two impressive rounds of funding in 2025 alone.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2025
$300m
SERIES E
Feb 2025
$250m
SERIES D
Total funding: $757.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO, plus 12 national holidays
- 16 weeks paid parental leave, for all employees
- Flexible working hours — we care more about what you accomplish than what specific hours you’re working
- Remote work environment
- Equity for all new employees
- Generous equipment budget for your home office setup ($1600)
- Opportunity to work and grow with talented individuals, and have ownership and impact at a high growth startup
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Shivdev Rao
(CEO)Alongside their work as a practising Cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, they also served as Physician Advisor in Residence and ultimately EVP at UPMC Enterprises; co-founded DocDok; and worked as a co-architect on a healthcare project at the Kauffman Foundation.
Sandeep Konam
(CTO)Completed an MS in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon, then served as Senior Product Manager at UPMC Enterprises. Has delivered guest lectures at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and the University of Pittsburgh.
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