Vice President, Legal

Role Overview

• Run the legal and compliance function end to end as the senior lawyer for the company, setting strategy, priorities, and standards for the team across commercial contracting, regulatory, compliance, corporate, employment, IP, privacy, and disputes. Deliver the function on budget and against defined SLAs for contract turnaround and stakeholder responsiveness.
• Serve as the senior legal voice to the CEO, COO, co-founders, executive team, and Board on consequential decisions, including strategic partnerships, new market entry, financing events, and material risk matters.
• Supervise and develop a team of four, including a Deputy General Counsel, Associate Counsel, Senior Director of Compliance, and Legal Operations Coordinator. Set clear expectations, manage performance, hire, and build a culture of independent judgment and ownership.
• Lead corporate governance for the company, including Board and committee support, UWCs, officer designations, equity administration coordination, DBA and annual state filings, and the Risk and Compliance Committee.
• Serve in officer roles designated by the Board, including the company’s Anti-Money Laundering Officer, Privacy Officer, and Bank Secrecy Act Officer.
• Lead the commercial legal function and personally draft, redline, and negotiate the company’s most consequential agreements, including customer contracts with health plans, vendor and partnership contracts, merchant and payment processor agreements, tri-party program agreements, CPG agreements, and channel partner contracts. Carry your own portfolio of work alongside the team.
• Own the regulatory and compliance posture of the business across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, EBT, card programs, banking partnerships, HIPAA, and state-level fintech and privacy obligations. Provide direct legal advice on regulatory questions and engage with regulators when needed.
• Supervise internal and external audits, including customer audits, third-party fintech and banking audits, investor audits, and regulatory examinations. Partner with Compliance on investigations, policy development, and audit remediation.
• Lead the legal workstream for evermore’s expansion into EBT and public sector programs, including state-level contracting, FNS engagement, government procurement responses, and the compliance framework that supports operating in a new regulatory environment.
• Own the company’s IP portfolio, working with outside counsel on trademark prosecution, brand and product mark protection, and IP strategy across the business.
• Partner with People Operations on employment law matters, including hiring practices, separations, performance management, leaves, accommodations, immigration support, and employment policy. Advise on workplace investigations and disputes.
• Manage the company’s relationships with AmLaw 100 outside counsel firms, including selection, engagement, scope, and budget. Reduce reliance on outside counsel by building in-house capability, control external spend against budget, and hold firms accountable to quality and efficiency when their input is genuinely required.
• Manage, in coordination with outside counsel, litigation and pre-litigation matters end to end, including in-house workup, drafting demand and response letters, directing outside counsel, settlement strategy, and exposure analysis. Handle subpoenas and disputes as the company’s representative.
• Own enterprise risk management for legal exposure, including identification and remediation of legacy contractual liabilities, indemnification scope, insurance coordination, and risk allocation in new agreements.
• Partner with Finance on legal budget, forecasting, deal structuring, pricing, business insurance, and risk allocation.
• Drive legal operations maturity, including contract templates, playbooks, Ironclad workflows, reporting, and the systems that allow the team to scale without scaling headcount.
• Support M&A and capital markets readiness as the business approaches those milestones.

Requirements

• A JD and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, with 11 to 20 years of post-qualification experience, including meaningful in-house time at a high-growth company.
• A builder’s mindset paired with operator instincts. You have stood up legal programs, designed processes, and built systems from scratch, and you are equally willing to do the substantive legal work yourself. You think in terms of repeatability and leverage, you draft and negotiate at a high level, and you have concrete examples of teams or functions you made measurably better by the way you structured them.
• Experience leading a legal function, or running a substantial part of one, with direct responsibility for team management, hiring and developing talent, outside counsel oversight, and budget ownership.
• Deep commercial contracting background, including SaaS, healthcare MSAs, tri-party program agreements, banking and payments agreements, vendor and partnership contracts, and strategic partnerships.
• Working knowledge of healthcare regulation (Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, HIPAA) and financial services regulation (card programs, banking partnerships, payments). Direct experience in either is required. Experience in both is a significant plus.
• A track record of advising executives and Boards on complex risk tradeoffs with clear, business-minded counsel that takes a position rather than surfaces options.
• Demonstrated comfort operating independently in ambiguity, with strong judgment on when to build process, when to move, and when to escalate.
• A management style that develops independent judgment in the team, controls outside counsel spend, and builds systems designed to endure and mature through every phase of the company’s growth.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across legal, business, and executive audiences.
• Genuine alignment with evermore’s mission and a desire to make benefits access more dignified and effective.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance with 90% paid employer premium contributions for all tiers
• 100% Employer Paid Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• 100% Employer Paid Basic Life Insurance Policy
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) Program
• Discretionary PTO
• Paid holidays
• Parental Leave
• Flexible work schedule within core hours
• Work anywhere in the USA as we are a fully distributed team from coast to coast