Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Healthcare Shares is a healthcare-focused venture capital fund investing in digital health and medical technology. They are seeking experienced attorneys to provide strategic legal guidance to early-stage healthcare and technology startups, assisting both the fund and portfolio companies in navigating growth and risk.
Responsibilities
- Provide broad legal perspective on company formation, governance, venture financings, founder matters, IP strategy, commercial contracts, partnerships, employment considerations, and scaling challenges
- Offer insight during investment evaluation regarding legal structure, risk factors, defensibility, and scalability of early-stage companies
- Serve as a sounding board to founders on legal and structural decisions that impact long-term enterprise value
- Advise on best practices for corporate governance, risk management, compliance frameworks, and building durable businesses
- Share perspective on trends in startup law, venture financing structures, and emerging legal issues affecting healthcare and technology companies
- Advise companies incubated by our venture studio from formation through early growth stages
Skills
- Attorney with meaningful experience advising startups, venture-backed companies, or growth-stage businesses
- Comfortable thinking beyond pure legal analysis and providing practical, business-oriented advice
- Strong judgment and ability to mentor founders at critical decision points
- Experience with venture financings, M&A, startup structuring, equity compensation, or emerging companies preferred
- Interest in entrepreneurship, innovation, and early-stage investing
- Advise companies incubated by our venture studio from formation through early growth stages
Benefits
- Carried interest in venture capital fund, with optional personal investment opportunity to invest in the fund (IRA/401K can be used)
- Carried Interest Participation: Advisors receive deal-level carried interest in the venture fund for startups they refer to us, aligning incentives with long-term fund performance.
- Optional Investment Opportunity: Advisors may have the opportunity to invest personally in the fund alongside other investors, subject to applicable terms and eligibility.
- Access to Innovation: Gain early visibility into cutting-edge healthcare and technology startups.
- Network Expansion: Engage with founders, operators, investors, and industry leaders across the healthcare ecosystem.
- Flexible Commitment: Meaningful strategic involvement with a limited time commitment of approximately 2–3 hours per month.
Company Overview
Healthcare Shares operates as a crowdfunding portal for the transformative medical innovations of the future. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.healthcareshares.com/.