Associate Product Counsel, Google Health

Job Description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA .

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• JD or equivalent practical experience
• 3 years of experience at the attorney-level
• Experience in law with a healthcare practice or in-house legal department of a healthcare provider, or a healthcare company
• Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law in the state of hire

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in regulation of medical device and/or biopharmaceutical products, HIPAA and the HITECH Act, the laws and regulations that govern clinical research, healthcare fraud, and abuse laws, and/or government contracting
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Ability to be flexible in a fast-paced environment with limited direction, balance priorities, and manage several time-sensitive projects simultaneously
• Ability to learn new things, manage a high-volume of requests, and take on legal issues in healthcare
• Excellent organizational and verbal/written communication skills

About the job

Our Legal team needs more than attorneys to keep things moving. Our Legal Operations team is charged with improving and maintaining the Legal team's internal processes, systems and tools. Responsible for tracking objectives, coordinating financial planning and solving technology challenges, you are entrepreneurial, proactive and highly organized. You keep costs down, engage third-party vendors and make the Legal team's services better, faster and more efficient.

In this role, you will be part of the Google Health Legal team, bringing expertise in healthcare issues. You'll act as product counsel for a mixed portfolio of health-related projects, providing legal and regulatory guidance, and advising Product, Research, and Business Development teams dedicated to using machine learning to help advance human health. To advise these teams effectively, you will use excellent judgment on privacy, including HIPAA and international privacy laws, and healthcare regulatory matters, while also utilizing expertise in the healthcare field.

20th century laws don't always solve 21st century problems, and Google Legal crafts innovative approaches for working with some of the toughest legal challenges of the information age. Whether you're a patent attorney, an intellectual property expert or an engineer headed to law school, Google Legal lets you address unanswered legal quandaries and create new precedents. Our innovative services raise challenging questions that demand creative and practical answers. We provide those answers by working at the crossroads of the law and new technology, helping Google build innovative and important products for users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice, legal direction, and training on US and international laws and regulations related to the development and commercialization of medical devices and other health technologies, including data privacy, product liability, healthcare fraud and abuse, medical device regulation, and more.
• Provide solution-oriented legal advice to teams (e.g., Engineering, Research, Product Management, and Business Development) from the initial stages of product development through launch and commercialization.
• Develop and maintain legal resources that are needed for products, such as terms of service, privacy notices, and other disclosures.
• Review and help structure agreements with potential partners in compliance with applicable law.

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