About the role
About Abridge Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients. Our enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose-built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems. We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense. We have offices located in the Mission District in San Francisco, the SoHo neighborhood of New York, and East Liberty in Pittsburgh.
The Role As Associate General Counsel - Life Sciences, you will be the first legal counsel dedicated to our newly created life sciences business. You will serve as a trusted advisor to product, engineering, and strategy teams, embedding legal and compliance frameworks into our product lifecycle. You will deliver practical, business-oriented guidance that supports innovation while ensuring compliance with healthcare, privacy, and other regulatory
requirements. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the direction of our life sciences business as a founding member of an innovative new product line. What You’ll Do Serve as product counsel, partnering across the founding members of our life sciences team including product, engineering and strategy to support product design, development, and deployment. Support go to market activities, including drafting and negotiating agreements and advising on contracting strategy Drive zero-to-one development of Abridge's Life Sciences legal strategy and guardrails. Provide actionable legal guidance on regulatory, privacy, and compliance matters, including HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA, and the evolving AI/ML landscape. Advise on healthcare regulatory compliance, including FDA, FTC, fraud and abuse (FCA, AKS), and related state laws. Partner with other cross-functional teams including policy, partner experience, marketing, IT, finance, corporate development, and commercial to ensure alignment and mitigate risk. Support privacy impact assessments, compliance risk assessments, and data governance efforts and frameworks. Coordinate with external counsel to resolve specialist issues and ensure fast delivery of actionable legal guidance and risk analysis. Monitor emerging regulations around AI, data use, and healthcare technology and advise internal stakeholders on their implications. What You’ll Bring 10+ years of legal experience, including 2+ years in a dedicated life sciences role. Passion for Abridge’s mission and the energy and drive to support a fast-moving product and operational teams. Strong understanding of and experience with pharmaceutical / biotech products and solutions. Proven ability to communicate and translate complex regulatory and legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for non-legal counterparts and colleagues. Comfort and confidence with juggling a high volume of projects, tight timelines, and competing priorities. Demonstrated ability to work independently and exercise business judgement; interest in joining a small team that prioritizes autonomy and trust. Proven ability to work cross-functionally, particularly with technical teams, designers, and commercial teams, building relationships and earning their confidence. Creativity in solving and navigating novel legal matters; experience in crafting new processes and language to meet the needs of a rapidly-moving enterprise in a novel industry. Familiarity with recent trends in artificial intelligence, particularly with large language models and responsible AI principles. This is a hybrid role open to candidates in New York or San Francisco. Candidates must be willing to work from our SF or NY office 3x per week (M/W/F).
