Director of Compliance and Legal, Life Science

Director of Compliance and Legal, Life Science ABOUT US Hippocratic AI is the leading generative AI company in healthcare. We have the only system that can have safe, autonomous, clinical conversations with patients. We have trained our own LLMs as part of our Polaris constellation, resulting in a system with over 99.9% accuracy. Hippocratic AI is rapidly expanding across the pharma and medtech industries. We are building a new class of agentic AI that supports patients and healthcare stakeholders across the entire life sciences value chain including patient services, clinical trials, access, adherence, and HCP-facing workflows. We are contracted with 5 of the top 20 pharma globally and are in a hyper growth phase for our Life Sciences vertical. WHY JOIN OUR TEAM Reinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first. We’re building the world’s first healthcare‑only, safety‑focused LLM — a breakthrough platform designed to transform patient outcomes at a global scale. This is category creation. Work with the people shaping the future. Hippocratic AI was co‑founded by CEO Munjal Shah and a team of physicians, hospital leaders, AI pioneers, and researchers from institutions like El Camino Health, Johns Hopkins, Washington University in St. Louis, Stanford, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. Backed by the world’s leading healthcare and AI investors. We recently raised a $126M Series C at a $3.5B valuation, led by Avenir Growth, bringing total funding to $404M with participation from CapitalG, General Catalyst, a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Premji Invest, UHS, Cincinnati Children’s, WellSpan Health, John Doerr, Rick Klausner, and others. Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI. Join experts who’ve spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world‑changing technologies — ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative. Location Requirement We believe the best ideas happen together. To support fast collaboration and a strong team culture, this role is expected to be in our Palo Alto office five days a week, unless otherwise specified. We are seeking a Director of Compliance and Legal to build and lead the compliance and legal infrastructure that enables Hippocratic AI to sell into, deploy within, and scale across pharma, medtech, diagnostics, and global regulated environments. This leader will own the policies, contract frameworks, and compliance programs that give our pharma partners and enterprise customers confidence to move forward — and that keep the company protected as we grow. This is a commercially oriented compliance and legal role. You will be in the room with pharma partners, on calls with procurement and legal teams, and at the table during enterprise deal negotiations. You will build the compliance posture and legal operations that accelerate sales cycles, reduce customer friction, and demonstrate that Hippocratic AI meets the rigorous standards that regulated healthcare organizations require. The ideal candidate has deep experience navigating the legal and compliance landscape of pharma and life sciences, understands how enterprise procurement and governance processes work from the customer's side, and knows how to build scalable legal and compliance operations in high-growth environments. Join experts who've spent their careers improving care, advancing science, and building world-changing technologies — ensuring our platform is powerful, trusted, and truly transformative. ABOUT THE ROLE The Director of Compliance and Legal is responsible for building and managing the compliance programs, legal frameworks, and risk management practices that support Hippocratic AI's commercial growth and customer relationships across regulated healthcare and life sciences environments. You will serve as the company's lead on regulatory compliance, contractual negotiations, data privacy, and commercial legal operations — with a particular focus on enabling and supporting enterpr ... (truncated, view full listing at source)