Fractional Healthcare Counsel

The Role

We are hiring a Healthcare & Commercial Counsel to support the rapid growth of our B2B line of business. This role is designed for an experienced healthcare attorney who wants meaningful, substantive work without a full-time commitment. You will be the embedded legal partner for our B2B commercial team — advising on all matters related to the B2B function, from commercial matters to healthcare regulatory matters — while reporting into and collaborating closely with the General Counsel. This is a non-litigation role focused on advisory, transactional, commercial, and compliance work.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the day-to-day healthcare advisor to the B2B team on deals, product launches, and operational questions, including those involving healthcare counterparties (payors, providers, MA plans, MCOs, digital health, employer health programs, and similar).
• Draft, review, and negotiate B2B contracts — master services agreements, statements of work, BAAs, data use agreements, and program-specific addenda — against CookUnity's playbook.
• Lead HIPAA compliance for the B2B line: structure Business Associate Agreements, advise on permitted uses and disclosures of PHI, evaluate data flows, and partner with security, product, and engineering on safeguards and minimum-necessary analysis.
• Advise on Food is Medicine, Medically Tailored Meals, supplemental benefits (including Medicare Advantage SSBCI and SNP frameworks), Medicaid 1115 waivers, and similar healthcare-funded meal programs.
• Spot-check exposure under fraud and abuse laws (Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark, beneficiary inducement, state analogs) and elevate complex issues to the GC and outside counsel as appropriate.
• Support state licensure, telehealth-adjacent, and food-as-medicine regulatory questions as they arise.
• Help build durable infrastructure: templates, playbooks, training, and internal guidance that scale with the B2B team.
• Partner with the GC on escalations, novel issues, and risk framing for the executive team.

What You'll Bring

• J.D. and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction; in good standing.
• Minimum 5 years of post-J.D. experience with a substantive focus on healthcare regulatory, healthcare transactional and general commercial matters.
• Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills in a commercial context.
• Demonstrated expertise in HIPAA / HITECH (Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules) — including drafting and negotiating BAAs, advising on PHI use cases, and counseling on incident response.
• Working familiarity with one or more of: Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits (SSBCI / SNP), Medicaid managed care, 1115 waivers, Food is Medicine / Medically Tailored Meals frameworks, state insurance and licensure regimes.
• Comfortable operating as a fractional, embedded legal partner — highly responsive, organized, and able to triage independently.
• Excellent judgment on when to decide, when to escalate, and when to bring in outside specialists.

Nice to Have

• Combination of reputable law firm training (with a preference for healthcare regulatory or healthcare transactions practice) and prior in-house experience (again, with a preference for experience at a healthcare company — payor, provider, digital health, PBM, MA plan, or similarly regulated organization).
• Experience supporting a B2B sales motion.
• Familiarity with state privacy laws (CCPA/CPRA, Washington My Health My Data Act, and similar) as they intersect with health data.
• Prior experience advising a food, nutrition, or consumer health company.

Compensation

• All final pay rates will be determined by the candidate's experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
• Pay Range for this position: $150,000 - $200,000 base.

Benefits

• Health Insurance coverage
• Eligible for a bi-annual performance bonus
• 401k Plan
• Unlimited PTO
• 5-year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical
• Paid Family leave
• Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
• A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly
• AI-forward workplace: enterprise access to ChatGPT and Claude to help you work smarter and grow faster
• Wellness perks: access to fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
• Personalized Spanish coach

Work Arrangement

United States (Remote)