Senior Corporate Counsel, Abridge
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$182.8-255k
+ Equity. Salary dependent on location
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Powering deeper understanding in healthcare through purpose-built AI
Open for applications
Powering deeper understanding in healthcare through purpose-built AI
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$182.8-255k
+ Equity. Salary dependent on location
More information about location
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
- 8+ years of legal experience, including 4+ years in product counseling. Prior in-house, government, or law firm experience focused on healthcare is a requirement
- Strong understanding of and experience with federal and state healthcare laws, including HIPAA and data privacy regulations
- Experience with FDA, FTC, FCA and fraud, waste, and abuse laws
- 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 technical teams, designers, and commercial teams, building relationships and earning their confidence
- Creativity in solving and navigating novel legal matters; experience in crafting new processes and language to meet the needs of a rapidly-moving enterprise in a novel industry
Desirable
- Expertise in intellectual property, AI, interoperability, or technology law
- Familiarity with recent trends in artificial intelligence, particularly with large language models and responsible AI principles
- Prior in-house experience (bonus points if at a growth-stage or healthcare technology company)
What the job involves
- As Senior Corporate Counsel, you will serve as a trusted advisor to product, engineering, and security teams, embedding legal and compliance frameworks into our product lifecycle
- You will deliver practical, business-oriented guidance that supports innovation while ensuring compliance with healthcare, privacy, and other regulatory requirements. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of AI in healthcare
- Serve as product counsel, partnering across the engineering, product, and security teams to support product design, development, and deployment
- Provide actionable legal guidance on regulatory, privacy, and compliance matters, including HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA, and the evolving AI/ML landscape
- Advise on healthcare regulatory compliance, including FDA, FTC, fraud and abuse (FCA, AKS), and related state laws
- Partner with other cross-functional teams including policy, partner experience, marketing, IT, finance, corporate development, and commercial to ensure alignment and mitigate risk
- Support privacy impact assessments, compliance risk assessments, and data governance efforts and frameworks
- Coordinate with external counsel to resolve specialist issues and ensure fast delivery of actionable legal guidance and risk analysis
- Monitor emerging regulations around AI, data use, and healthcare technology and advise internal stakeholders on their implications
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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