Senior Counsel, Commercial

About the Role

We are seeking a deeply thoughtful, hardworking, emotionally intelligent, organized, and pragmatic attorney who is excited to serve as Cityblock's corporate counsel partnering with the Commercial team on all health plan partner related work.

This role will play an integral role in helping to drive Cityblock's performance by building, optimizing, and transforming our market growth through contracts and will report into the General Counsel.

This role will: Support Cityblock's Commercial teams in a wide variety of strategic, risk-based alliances and business development activities across all Cityblock markets Proactively identify problems within the assignment and adjacent functions and drive to positive and impactful solutions. Manage large-scale deliverables with little or no oversight.

Manage multiple functional areas, each as more fully outlined below: For Growth: Lead drafting, editing, and negotiating all revenue generating (and related) agreements with payor partners (including but not limited to LOIs; Definitive Agreements; BAAs; etc) Assist the Commercial teams to advance short-term and long-term best practices for value-based and fee-for-service contracting, including governing terms, reimbursement rates and structures, reporting, and contract template structure.

Provide assistance in navigating structural and regulatory considerations, such as: multi-state organizational licensure (such as IPAs and ACOs); multistate utilization review licensure and certification needs; compliance implications of increased clinical and financial integration models, privacy and security, and data sharing and reporting; and the applicability of the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute, civil monetary penalty laws, and corporate practice of medicine doctrines.

Serve as a critical and a collaborative thought partner with the Commercial team and the broader leadership team by translating complex legal topics into relevant, insightful explanations that inform strategic and operational decisions. Represent Cityblock externally during negotiations with health plan partners. Take learnings from past negotiations to continually improve our contracts and negotiating strategy.

For Partnerships: Work collaboratively with the commercial to advise on strategic partnership issues and answer legal questions that arise during the course of our relationships. Design contract extractions for partnership and business teams so folks across the organization can easily operationalize the contracts. For Network: Partner with Network team to draft and negotiate contracts that support our Network strategy.

Design contract extractions for network and business teams so folks across the organization can easily operationalize the contracts. Continually hone our processes to maximize efficiency and capture learnings to speed up deal cycles and promote high customer satisfaction and appropriate oversight of network partnerships.

Establish excellent rapport and working relationships with colleagues in order to encourage and continue the proactive use of in-house legal counsel.

Pay and benefits

JD degree 7+ years of corporate work experience Transactional healthcare background with an in-house legal department for a healthcare company or law firm in a healthcare practice area Excellent multitasking and prioritization skills with a proven ability to manage multiple contract negotiations and provider agreements in parallel Prior experience in an externally facing capacity Radical candor and comfortability working within an often ambiguous, high growth environment Exceptional management, mentorship, and communication skills that are conducive to an environment where issues are identified and resolved Mission driven to serve in an organization dedicated to bringing novel care delivery models to underserved populations We take into account an individual's qualifications, skillset, and experience in determining final salary.

This role is eligible for health insurance, life insurance, retirement benefits, participation in the company's equity program, paid time off, including vacation and sick leave. The actual offer will be at the company's sole discretion and determined by relevant business considerations, including the final candidate's qualifications, years of experience, skillset, and geographic location.

The expected salary range for this position is: $153,000.00 - $210,000.00 Annual Cityblock values diversity as a core tenet of the work we do and the populations we serve. We do not accept unsolicited resumes from outside recruiters/placement agencies. Cityblock will not pay fees associated with resumes presented through unsolicited means.