Senior Product & Commercial Counsel, AKASA
$165-225k
+ Equity
AI-powered automation for the healthcare revenue cycle
Be an early applicant
AI-powered automation for the healthcare revenue cycle
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$165-225k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable human health by building the future of healthcare with AI.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of legal experience in a relevant setting, including in-house and start-up experience. Previous healthcare and/or healthtech experience is required
- Experience counseling product development and working closely with designers, engineers, and product management
- Significant demonstrable experience negotiating, drafting, and reviewing commercial contracts and technology agreements, and counseling go-to-market strategies
- Experience with and passion for commercial technology licensing, intellectual property, SaaS offerings, and transactions. Experience with AI/ML products is a plus
- Experience with data privacy, HIPAA, security, intellectual property law, marketing and advertising law, and information policy
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Great interpersonal skills with sound business judgment
- Passion for navigating complex problems, coming up with simple and practical solutions, and identifying ways to move the business forward
- Energized by a fast-paced team environment
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school and must be licensed to practice law
What the job involves
- As Sr Product & Commercial Counsel, you'll have a broad range of responsibilities across legal, contractual, and regulatory obligations
- In this highly cross-functional role, you’ll be deeply involved in our product development and launch cycles, commercial processes, and business operations
- You will create and negotiate a wide range of inbound and outbound agreements and structure commercial partnerships
- Entrepreneurial by nature, you’ll have immediate impact through analytic rigor, uncanny judgment, and effective counseling
- Advise technical and business development teams on legal, regulatory, and privacy risk through all stages of product development
- Draft, negotiate, and analyze a broad range of agreements - including inbound, outbound, infrastructure, partnership and business associate agreements
- Support continuous improvements of forms, policies, and processes to streamline and simplify deals and product/service terms
- Partner closely with our Go-to-Market teams on product positioning and support regulatory or compliance reviews by customers
- Work cross-functionally across the company to analyze legal risks, devise creative solutions, and develop strong, trusted advisor relationships
- Analyze our legal processes and consistently iterate to help the organization become more efficient and scale effectively
- Manage internal projects, processes, trainings, and drive cross-functional efforts to successful completion
Our take
The US healthcare system is both financially and operationally complex. It is estimated to cost patients and providers $500 billion annually in medical billing and insurance administrative expenses. AKASA, formerly Alpha Health, addresses this issue with its Unified Automation technology
The technology is designed to streamline revenue cycle operations by combining human expertise with AI-driven automation. It deploys machine-learning tools supported by revenue cycle specialists who can handle more complex cases and refine the algorithms.
This blend of human and machine intelligence is a stand-out approach, which could well serve as a blueprint for other sectors. Meanwhile, AKASA will continue to help reshape the healthcare industry by solving its complex operational challenges.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$120m
SERIES C
Mar 2021
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $205m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Generous parent leave policy
- Full employee coverage for life insurance
- Company-paid holidays
- 401(K) plan
Company values
- Lead with empathy: We embrace a spirit of generosity, kindness, and inclusivity
- Commit to excellence: We hold ourselves, our work, and our culture to high standard
- Empower yourself & others: We act with autonomy and authenticity, while allowing others to do the same
- Be brave: We shoot for the moon with our ideas and challenge the status quo
- Build trust: We deliver on our promises to each other and our clients
- Play the team: We know that we're better when we work together as one team and support each other
Company HQ
The East Side, South San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Malinka Walaliyadde
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Counsyl and Corning Life Sciences. They have an Engineering degree from Cornell University.
Varun Ganapathi
(Co-Founder & CTO)They have successfully started two AI companies prior to AKASA. One was acquired by Google and the other by Udacity.
Andy Atwal
(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)Prior to AKASA, they were the founding Software Engineer at Counsyl, a health technology company offering DNA screenings for various diseases.
Ben Beadle-Ryby
(Co-Founder)Previously, they were a Partner at the Advisory Board Company, where they oversaw revenue cycle consulting and technology.
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