Associate General Counsel, Cedar
Product and Regulatory
$255-300k
+ Equity
Financial engagement & billing technology for healthcare providers
Open for applications
Financial engagement & billing technology for healthcare providers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$255-300k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make healthcare more affordable and accessible through its consumer-friendly platform.
Role
Who you are
- This role is well suited for a proactive, hands-on, and experienced product and regulatory attorney who is excited to build legal support structure and compliant-by-design product and servicing offerings, and enjoys managing and building a team focused on the same goals
- JD Degree from an accredited law school and license in good standing to practice law in at least one state bar
- 10+ years relevant legal experience at a top law firm, government and/or in-house (a combination is a plus), with experience managing other people
- Previous experience in tech/start-up/emerging growth companies preferred
- Experience in healthcare/healthtech and consumer products preferred
- Familiarity with federal and state that can apply to healthcare and payments businesses, such as anti-kickback laws, HIPAA, TCPA, CAN-SPAM, FDCPA, UDAAP, PCI DSS, CCPA, CPRA, GDPR, and GLBA, and where applicable related state law requirements. You do not necessarily need to be a subject matter expert on all of these but must have a strong regulatory foundation and be comfortable with a high-regulated operating environment where multiple regulatory regimes apply
- Strong communication (oral and written) skills, with the ability to influence and persuade, effectively interfacing at all levels of an organization
- 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
- Substantial experience working collaboratively and effectively with cross-functional teams
- Candidates must be located in the U.S
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Associate General Counsel to join our Legal & Compliance team as our lead product and regulatory attorney, as we navigate evolving laws and regulations in healthcare, payments, consumer marketing/advertising, consumer and data privacy, and AI
- This will report into the General Counsel
- Develop and communicate a vision and roadmap for legal product and regulatory support at Cedar, and develop proactive strategies for regulatory compliance and risk management
- Deeply embed with cross-functional teams, including product, implementations, engineering, compliance and marketing, to build and maintain compliant-by-design products and services by advising on regulatory requirements in a customer-oriented manner
- Anticipate regulatory obstacles and emerging issues throughout the product lifecycle and develop solutions with other members of the Legal & Compliance team and other business units
- Serve as a trusted advisor and partner to business teams, including advising and partnering on the end-to-end lifecycle of products and services
- Train teams on laws and regulations applicable to our business and best practices
- Partner with Compliance to ensure comprehensive risk support, including assisting in incident investigation and response, and the managing litigation, disputes and regulatory inquiries
- Engage and manage external counsel on a range of issues, pressure testing legal analyses and translating advice into clear and actionable guidance for our business teams
- Provide advice to the senior management on the risk and benefits of corporate and product strategies; and assist in briefing and communicating complex and sensitive regulatory matters to management and the Board
- Manage, guide, mentor, and develop a team of legal professionals
- Work collaboratively across teams, fostering a positive and inclusive environment
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 this long-time problem set with a selection of consumer-facing services which streamline billing, insurance, and healthcare processes.
Companies like Cedar are in high demand, and serve a promisingly large and hungry market. Future healthcare billing concerns a huge percentage of US adults, and optimizing patient satisfaction is of increasing concern in a competitive sector for healthcare providers. Like other companies with a tech-forward focus, Cedar has been able to capitalize on an industry increasingly expanding towards digital healthcare solutions.
After acquiring competing patient finance streamlining service OODA Health in 2021, Cedar has gone on to capture even more success. The company has netted substantial funds on top of the launch of its Payer Intelligence Layer, which allows it to integrate data from insurers and providers to create a single source of information. It was also endorsed by the Montana Hospital Association's shared services division MHA Ventures (MHAV), to be listed as its only preferred patient financial engagement technology, all boding well for its performance into the future.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
41% female employees
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2022
$68.4m
SERIES D
Mar 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $394.4m
Company benefits
- A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
- Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- Health insurance
- Offices in Manhattan, San Francisco and Salt Lake City
- Free lunch, healthy snacks, cold brew and kombucha on tap (Yup!)
- Guided-meditation and game nights (Weekly!)
- Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
- 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)
- Competitive pay, 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
Company values
- Focus on the vision: We enable an exceptional healthcare consumer financial experience through relentless focus, only prioritizing actions that advance us towards this goal.
- Reject mediocrity: We solicit diverse perspectives, set high standards and constantly challenge ourselves to raise the bar on our thinking, people and performance.
- Apply a growth mindset: We maintain an optimistic, constructive and resilient attitude, passionately pursuing our mission, embracing difficult problems and learning from setbacks.
- Use good judgment: We require accountability, bold thinking and a reliance on common sense to prioritize and make informed decisions that reflect our convictions, integrity and core values.
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Arel Lidow
(Co-Founder)Prior to founding Cedar in 2016, Arel was VP of product at AppNexus where they supervised the development and launch of the company’s flagship products. Arel began their career as a technology associate at Bridgewater Associates, working on trading systems for the world’s largest hedge fund. Graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in electrical engineering and a certificate in finance.
Dr. Florian Otto
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Cedar, Florian was an executive at Zocdoc where they drove the commercial adoption of the platform. Florian also founded a daily deal company in Brazil (ClubeUrbano) that was eventually acquired by Groupon. After the acquisition, he became Chief Executive Officer of Groupon Brazil. Florian began their business career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company within their healthcare practice. Florian holds a M.D., D.D.S. and PhD from the University of Freiburg, Germany.
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