Managing Product Counsel

Thatch is a technology company building a healthcare system through partnerships, platforms, and products. The Managing Product Counsel will serve as embedded legal counsel to Product, Engineering, and Design, advising on regulated healthcare products, privacy, data use, AI features, intellectual property, disclosures, and commercial commitments. The role will also build scalable legal processes, playbooks, and standards for product development and regulatory review.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as embedded counsel to Product, Engineering, and Design from early scoping through launch, across new features, platform integrations, and partner-facing surfaces
• Advise on the regulatory architecture of the product itself: ICHRA and IRS substantiation rules, ERISA, ACA, and the producer licensing and TPA obligations that flow through our regulated subsidiaries–rules that are constantly evolving
• Partner with our Compliance team on product-facing regulatory review, but you'll own the pre-launch design and disclosure judgment
• Review in-product disclosures, onboarding and enrollment flows, and product marketing
• Work on the legal surfaces customers actually touch: terms of service, user agreements, consents and authorizations, notices, and disclosures
• Counsel on privacy, data use, and AI-powered features, including building the review process rather than answering one-offs
• Identify protectable intellectual property assets and work with IP counsel to protect it
• Build systems that scale: launch checklists, playbooks, self-serve guidance, and training, so teams can move fast without a lawyer in the room for every decision
• Work with others to set the standard for how product legal work gets done at Thatch, and work closely with others on the legal team as the function grows
• Partner with commercial counsel where product decisions create downstream contractual commitments to carriers, partners, or customers
• During your first six months you’ll (a) be an embedded with Product and Engineering, and teams are bringing you in at design rather than at launch review; (b) have written, shared standards for product-facing regulatory reviews (that both teams actually use); and (c) have playbooks to focus work on novel issues

Requirements:

• JD from an accredited law school with 9+ years of legal practice, including meaningful in-house time supporting Product and Engineering teams
• Experience advising on regulated consumer products where the compliance obligation is designed into the product rather than papered around it
• Knowledge of health insurance, employee benefits, financial services, or a comparably regulated environment (you may not have all but should have some)
• Ability to read a product spec, data flow, or design file and identify the legal issue without being walked through it
• Comfort making and documenting risk calls where the regulatory answer is genuinely unsettled, with a clear sense of which risks are worth slowing a launch for
• Track record of building legal processes, frameworks, and operations in startup or high-growth environments
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach with cross-functional teams, especially engineers and PMs
• Ability and willingness to lead, even if you're not managing
• Sense of humor (lawyer jokes are a good place to start)
• Experience in health benefits, payroll, and tax reporting
• Depth in either IP or data protection laws
• Experience with AI governance in a consumer-facing product
• A fearless approach to using new technologies, including AI tooling, in your own work
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance legal risk against commercial objectives