Senior Paralegal

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Chapel Hill, NC
5-7 Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech
The Role
The Senior Paralegal will support the Legal & Compliance Department by assisting with contract management, compliance initiatives, and legal research. The role includes drafting and reviewing documents, managing vendor oversight, and supporting policy compliance efforts in a fast-paced environment, particularly in the healthcare sector.
Summary Generated by Built In

Company: The mission of Well (https://www.well.co/) is to transform healthcare through our unique impact to our members' health and happiness. We do this through our differentiated consumer experience and world-class data and analytics engine that drive engagement and behavior change. Our product -- a consumer health engagement platform -- integrates concierge services, behavioral health, telemedicine, care management and wellness services to drive sustained engagement, lower costs and improve the health of members. In addition to our product, we know our team makes us unique. We’re a highly diverse and engaged organization whose employees are passionate about the mission of the company and whose management is passionate about the employees.  We promote an employee- and member-centric culture with generous benefits, which you can learn more about here: https://www.well.co/careers.

Position Title: Senior Paralegal

Reporting To: General Counsel

Location: Chapel Hill, NC; Newton, MA 

Compensation: $85,000-$100,000, depending on qualifications, plus bonus potential and benefits

Position Summary: We are seeking an experienced corporate paralegal who will work directly with Well’s General Counsel/Compliance Officer to support a range of activities and projects.  To be successful in this role, you should have excellent communication, organization and negotiation skills, along with a proven track record of successful experience managing competing priorities in a fast-paced, high growth environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the Legal & Compliance Department (and other Corporate functions, as appropriate) through research, the preparation of summaries and documentation, and in identifying and responding to business needs and questions;
  • Aide in the general management of contracting, including updates to playbook, contracting templates, and organization of all contracting documents. Assist in management of contract database, including loading of contracts, searching/reviewing terms and conditions, creation and management of company reports, providing notifications to stakeholders. Assist in initial drafting and/or review of contracting documents at the direction of the General Counsel.
  • Assist in implementation and management of policies and procedures repository; aide in oversight of policy compliance initiatives including support of review and approval cycles.
  • Support ongoing monitoring efforts, including tracking and monitoring of issues, documenting remediation efforts, reporting the same and liaising with external parties as necessary.
  • Manage administration of vendor oversight including supporting internal stakeholders with vendor sourcing and contracting, educating stakeholders regarding effective use of tooling, oversight of risk assessment, assembly of data/reports for relevant leadership.
  • Support administration and management of Legal/Compliance committees
  • Aide in general process management efforts for the Legal Department

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of relevant experience in a fast-paced software company supporting commercial transactions, ideally in the healthcare or benefits industries  
  • Paralegal certificate preferred but not required
  • Knowledge of healthcare, public health, wellness, insurance regulations/industry preferred, including but not limited to: HIPAA (Wellness & Privacy/Security), ERISA, EEOC, ACA, ADA, GINA
  • Experience supporting both commercial transactions and compliance functions
  • Prior experience in internal controls oversight & monitoring through knowledge of auditing, compliance and risk management best practices
  • Knowledge of third party oversight and vendor management governance and tooling
  • Experience supporting multi-state, federal and global privacy practices
  • Proficiency with contract management, vendor management and policy management tooling
  • Experience supporting board governance matters

Additional Job Information

Well is on a mission to redefine the healthcare experience. This is an opportunity to re-shape healthcare for America. We are developing solutions to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare.  We welcome team members who are passionate about that mission. We embrace diversity and are committed to building an inclusive team.

Well is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.  We seek diversity and encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply.

The Company
Chapel Hill, NC
90 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Well serves as a trusted, personalized health guide, adding a layer of ease and empowerment to help our members reach their health goals -- and our consumer health platform is the first to proactively deliver personalized health advancement at scale. Through concierge and engagement-based health guidance, powered by a proprietary, AI-driven “health engine,” we are changing both the way individuals navigate health and employers realize cost savings through improved employee health and engagement.

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