Assistant General Counsel, Commercial Contracts – AI, Data & IP

🕒 October 6

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $225k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Machinify

1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💰 $10M Series A - Machinify on 2018-10

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Machinify is a healthcare-focused AI platform and services company that reshapes healthcare payments and payment integrity. Its AI operating system unifies claims, medical records, contracts, and policies, and uses foundation models and task-specific agents to automate and improve coding, payment accuracy, recoveries, and cost avoidance. Machinify serves health plans (including 18 of the top 20), supports insourced, hybrid, or fully-managed deployments, and emphasizes measurable outcomes — reporting 85+ customers, 270M member lives covered, and $6B+ in annual cost avoidance and recoveries.

📋 Description

• Own AI provisions in customer, partner, and vendor agreements, including training and improvement rights, de-identification and aggregation, model and output ownership, human oversight, performance and accuracy commitments, transparency and explainability obligations, and AI-specific risk allocation • Draft and maintain standard AI contract language and fallback positions • Negotiate data use and data rights terms, including secondary use, derived data, retention and deletion, and downstream restrictions • Advise product and engineering on AI features before launch and identify legal constraints created by design choices • Track AI regulation and health-sector AI guidance and translate it into contract and product guidance • Convert privacy, compliance, and information-security positions into contract language, standard clauses, and fallback positions • Negotiate BAAs, data processing agreements, data protection schedules, and security exhibits • Negotiate HIPAA, state health privacy, consumer privacy, offshore access, and subcontractor restrictions • Escalate non-standard deal positions to the Chief Privacy Officer and Compliance and provide feedback to improve standards • Structure IP ownership, license scope, feedback, and improvement provisions • Handle open-source and third-party model and data licensing questions • Support IP protection strategy, including invention capture, trade secret hygiene, and trademark matters • Draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements including customer MSAs and SOWs, SaaS and data agreements, reseller and channel arrangements, vendor and technology agreements, NDAs, and government subcontracts • Run deals independently from first draft to signature and set negotiation objectives and timelines • Contribute to contract templates and playbooks and reduce routine contracting cycle time • Advise the business on commercial risk and acceptable mitigation • Partner with Sales and Client Success on active deals and renewals, including customer calls and negotiations • Explain AI, data use, privacy, and IP positions to commercial clients and counsel • Build talk tracks, FAQs, and one-pagers for Sales and Client Success • Provide clear guidance on standard, negotiable, and escalated issues

🎯 Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar • 8+ years of commercial contracting experience at a law firm, in-house, or both, including substantial time in-house • Demonstrated ownership of AI and data rights provisions in commercial agreements, including training rights, model and output ownership, and data use limitations • Working command of HIPAA and health data privacy, including BAAs, de-identification standards, and PHI handling in a vendor or business associate posture • Substantive IP experience in a software or data context, including licensing, ownership structuring, and open source • Healthcare industry experience in payer, payment integrity, health tech, provider, or a closely related setting • Track record working directly with Sales or Client Success teams, including client-facing negotiation and explaining legal positions to non-lawyers • Comfort operating inside privacy and compliance guardrails and escalating when a deal exceeds approved standards • Judgment to advise a fast-moving business on unsettled questions without blocking or automatically approving deals • Preferred: experience selling into or buying from health plans and familiarity with payer procurement and security review processes • Preferred: exposure to government healthcare contracting, including CMS, state Medicaid, or federal subcontracts • Preferred: experience building contract templates, playbooks, or a deal desk • Preferred: familiarity with emerging AI governance frameworks in regulated industries

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere in the US • Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings • FSA/HSA • Tuition reimbursement • 401(k) with company match • Additional health and wellness benefits and perks • Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work • Annual Bonus

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