What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Counsel - Privacy position at Rugiet Health?
About Us
Rugiet is disrupting healthcare as we know it. With personalized plans, a growing lineup of compound pharmaceuticals, and an easy-to-use online platform, we help patients create custom sexual health and wellness plans that align with their unique goals and lifestyles.
The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced in-house Legal Counsel to join our team on a part-time or full-time basis. Our legal console will be responsible for overseeing privacy, HIPAA compliance, and contract management. This role is critical for ensuring that our company aligns with all legal requirements, safeguards sensitive data, stays HIPAA compliant, follows all privacy laws, and mitigates risk. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in privacy law, healthcare compliance, and contract negotiation, with a proven ability to provide practical legal advice in a fast-paced startup environment.
What You'll Do
- Advise the organization on privacy-related matters, ensuring compliance with relevant data protection regulations, including GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and other global and local privacy laws.
- Lead and manage the company's HIPAA compliance efforts, including developing privacy policies, and overseeing those policies implemented.
- Stay on top of current telemedicine laws and keep the company compliant.
- Review, negotiate, and draft contracts, including our vendor agreements, NDAs, service agreements, licensing agreements, and data protection agreements, ensuring they are legally sound.
- Develop and maintain privacy risk management strategies and frameworks to mitigate data privacy risks and potential breaches.
- Conduct privacy and security audits.
- Ensure all internal departments adhere to legal and regulatory requirements related to privacy and data protection.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., IT, product, security, and HR) to integrate privacy policies and practices into business operations.
- Lead investigations into potential privacy breaches while collaborating with external counsel and regulatory bodies when necessary.
- Educate and train staff on privacy and security issues, including HIPAA training and updates on privacy laws.
- Monitor developments in privacy and healthcare regulations, ensuring timely implementation of changes to maintain compliance.
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