Are you looking for a high energy, strategic, and fast-paced position as a Senior Corporate Counsel - Commercial & Privacy?  Join Relias, the company changing lives throughout the world by helping healthcare organizations improve their clinical and financial outcomes!

For 11,000+ health care and human service organizations, Relias helps clients deliver better clinical and financial outcomes by elevating the performance of teams. We help organizations across the continuum of care get better at maintaining compliance, developing staff and promoting consistent, high-quality care. Our platform employs assessments to reveal specific gaps in skills and addresses them with personalized and engaging learning, choosing from 7,000+ online courses that meet accrediting board, state and federal requirements.  We are passionate about our products and our clients; what we deliver and the impact we have on the world is truly something you can be proud to represent.  Join us and make a difference.

WHAT CAN RELIAS OFFER YOU?

• Fantastic health and wellness benefits package, including an outstanding 401k match, a flexible PTO program, and a generous and inclusive parental leave policy. Additionally, Relias pays for the employee portion of the monthly healthcare premium!
• Flexible work environment with onsite and work from home options – you choose when you want to come into the office!
• Active Employee Resource Groups open to all employees!
• Comprehensive onboarding program – a great introduction to our company, customers and culture!
• Growth and career advancement opportunities!
  • Promotes internal mobility and career growth aligned with evolving business needs
  • Multiple development program options – leadership development, professional development curriculums, and Nanodegree options in both technology and data science
  • Professional development gained from conference attendance and participation in organizations like NC Tech
  • Onsite 321 Coffee Shop providing free coffee and pastries to employees

The Senior Corporate Counsel is a broad‑based commercial legal role responsible for supporting the company across a wide range of legal matters, with a primary emphasis on commercial transactions and business support. This role represents the company in legal and business negotiations with prospects, clients, vendors, independent contractors, and partners, and provides practical legal guidance across the organization. While this position includes responsibility for advising on privacy, data protection, and data governance matters, it is not a dedicated privacy counsel role. The Senior Corporate Counsel is expected to contribute across contractual, operational, and strategic legal issues affecting the business.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Contract Management and Negotiations: Oversee and manage the full lifecycle of contract negotiations, including SaaS agreements, MSAs, vendor contracts, SLAs, NDAs, software licenses, DPAs, SOWs, ordering documents, and government contracts. Ensure agreements align with company policies, legal standards, and regulatory requirements while mitigating legal and business risks. This includes reviewing and negotiating privacy, data protection, and information security terms and advising on related data risk allocation. Draft and negotiate high‑quality documents, interpret contract requirements, and finalize documentation for contract closure, including obtaining necessary stakeholder approvals. 
• Privacy & Data Governance: Provide legal support on privacy, data protection, and data governance matters in connection with commercial transactions, product development, and business operations, while continuing to support the Legal team on a broad range of other corporate, commercial, and operational legal matters. 
• Process Improvements: Develop, implement, and revise legal strategies, standardized legal processes and contract templates to drive efficiencies while supporting the company’s goals and objectives 
• Legal Strategy, Advice: & Business Judgment: Provide legal advice and counsel to internal stakeholders on a wide range of corporate, commercial, and operational matters. Develop a strong understanding of the company’s business, products, and objectives in order to deliver pragmatic, risk‑based legal guidance and recommend appropriate courses of action aligned with business priorities. This includes advising on privacy and data governance matters as part of a broader generalist legal practice , including advising on intellectual property, employment, compliance, and other corporate and commercial legal matters. Conduct legal research and analysis to deliver accurate and timely advice on a wide range of legal issues, including but not limited to privacy matters, consistent with the responsibilities of a senior generalist corporate counsel role. 
• Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Work closely with Sales, IT, Finance, HR, and Product teams on matters including compliance, privacy, data protection, data governance, product development, and employment matters. Provide training and legal awareness for internal stakeholders as directed.
• Legal Representation: Manage outside counsel as directed and represent the company in resolving disputes in a cost-effective and in a timely manner. Draft correspondence to legal counsel, customers, and vendors, as needed. (2%)
• Extended Hours Support: Last day of month extended hours support in rotation with other legal personnel to close time-sensitive sales deals. 
• Other duties as assigned. 

YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES IF YOU HAVE:

• 8+ years of contract or transactional law experience in a corporate environment
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Juris Doctor and active North Carolina bar license
• Experience with software and SaaS commercial transactions
• Experience with government contracting and public-sector procurement processes
• Experience advising on data privacy, data protection, or data governance issues as part of a broader commercial or corporate legal practice (strongly preferred, but not a dedicated privacy role)
• Managing commercial deals and cross-functional projects
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with minimal supervision

Relias is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free workplace. Relias welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities and is happy to make reasonable accommodations in all aspects of the selection process.  If you are an individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please visit our career page for instructions.

IN OFFICE REQUIREMENT:

Relias values collaboration and wants to ensure that our team members have opportunities to work with their teams regularly for professional development opportunities. Our flexible hybrid work environment requires that you live in the state of North Carolina, within a commutable distance to our office (~1-hour commute). You would be expected to work in our Morrisville, NC Headquarters approximately 30/40 days/quarter.

Company: Relias LLC 

Country: United States of America 

State/Region: North Carolina 

City: Morrisville 

Postal Code: 27560 

Job ID: 288795