Senior Corporate Counsel - Product

Senior Corporate Counsel - Product ABOUT ABRIDGE Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients. Our enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose-built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems. We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense. We have offices located in the Mission District in San Francisco, the SoHo neighborhood of New York, and East Liberty in Pittsburgh. THE ROLE As Senior Corporate Counsel, you will serve as a trusted advisor to product, engineering, and security teams, embedding legal and compliance frameworks into our product lifecycle. You will deliver practical, business-oriented guidance that supports innovation while ensuring compliance with healthcare, privacy, and other regulatory requirements. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of AI in healthcare. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Serve as product counsel, partnering across the engineering, product, and security teams to support product design, development, and deployment. - Provide actionable legal guidance on regulatory, privacy, and compliance matters, including HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA, and the evolving AI/ML landscape. - Advise on healthcare regulatory compliance, including FDA, FTC, fraud and abuse (FCA, AKS), and related state laws. - Partner with other cross-functional teams including policy, partner experience, marketing, IT, finance, corporate development, and commercial to ensure alignment and mitigate risk. - Support privacy impact assessments, compliance risk assessments, and data governance efforts and frameworks. - Coordinate with external counsel to resolve specialist issues and ensure fast delivery of actionable legal guidance and risk analysis. - Monitor emerging regulations around AI, data use, and healthcare technology and advise internal stakeholders on their implications. WHAT YOU’LL BRING - Passion for Abridge’s mission and the energy and drive to support a fast-moving product and operational teams - 8+ years of legal experience, including 4+ years in product counseling. Prior in-house, government, or law firm experience focused on healthcare is a requirement. - Strong understanding of and experience with federal and state healthcare laws, including HIPAA and data privacy regulations - Experience with FDA, FTC, FCA and fraud, waste, and abuse laws. - Proven ability to communicate and translate complex regulatory and legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-legal counterparts and colleagues. - Comfort and confidence with juggling a high volume of projects, tight timelines, and competing priorities. - Demonstrated ability to work independently and exercise business judgement; interest in joining a small team that prioritizes autonomy and trust. - Proven ability to work cross-functionally, particularly with technical teams, designers, and commercial teams, building relationships and earning their confidence. - Creativity in solving and navigating novel legal matters; experience in crafting new processes and language to meet the needs of a rapidly-moving enterprise in a novel industry. BONUS POINTS IF… - Expertise in intellectual property, AI, interoperability, or technology law - Familiarity with recent trends in artificial intelligence, particularly with large language models a ... (truncated, view full listing at source)