VP of Legal, General Counsel and Head of Compliance – San Francisco, CA (929-SLS)

Hybrid (In-office minimum 3 days per week : Tuesday Wednesday Thursday)

Our client a publicly traded HealthTech company has exclusively retained Solutus Legal Search to assist the executives with their search for a General Counsel and Head of Compliance Officer to lead its high-performing legal function. This legal executive will report directly to the Founder & CEO and will manage a team of 12 legal professionals.

As the companys senior legal and compliance leader and principal advisor to the executive team and board you will lead with business acumen safeguarding the company from risk while enabling innovation and growth. You will own public company legal and compliance operations including corporate securities / governance IP protection and employment law product and commercial counseling and regulatory and privacy programs for a tech-first digital health business. Youll mature legal operations shepherd strategic M&A transactions strengthen IP and data-rights position and partner cross-functionally to enable developer velocity and scalable go-to-market execution.

The Ideal Candidate :

• 15 years of experience spanning top-tier law firms and in-house roles across venture-backed startups / high-growth companies and public companies in technology (digital health strongly preferred).
• Proven success scaling legal teams in tech companies : building org structures processes and legal operations to support rapid growth.
• Lead teams of 10 professionals across legal compliance privacy and legal ops in remote / hybrid environments.
• Healthcare AI and privacy expertise with a strong understanding of the digital health regulatory landscape and emerging AI governance.
• Strong corporate law experience including entity formation and governance board / committee support capitalization and equity programs venture / private financings corporate policies / secretarial practices; capital markets familiarity a plus.
• Led or co-led M&A transactions and strategic investments including diligence negotiation and drafting (LOIs merger / asset purchase agreements disclosure schedules) regulatory approvals closing mechanics and post-close integration.
• Designed and operated risk-based compliance programs; experience with monitoring / auditing internal investigations and regulator interactions (e.g. OCR FTC state AGs).
• Experience partnering with founder-led organizations.
• Strong interpersonal skills responsiveness working with a sense of urgency
• Business partner who views value in facilitating the business.
• JD with strong academic credentials and active bar membership in good standing.

Core Competencies

Core Responsibilities

What Youll Accomplish

Solutus Legal Search is proud to have been exclusively retained to assist our client with this special engagement. Resumes submitted directly to our client will be forwarded to Solutus Legal for evaluation.

Given the heavy volume of applicants we will only respond directly to applicants if their background is aligned with our clients hiring criteria. We appreciate your understanding

Ref. #929-SLS

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience :

Exec

Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1