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Director of Legal Affairs

Remote (United States)

We strongly encourage people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. Real is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.


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We Are Real.

Real is a venture-backed mental health care company based in New York City. We’re a team of innovators, clinicians, and technologists on a mission to make caring for our mental health a priority. We're redesigning mental healthcare through a digital platform and in-person experience, integrating empathy, design, and progressive care to build the most elevated end-to-end mental healthcare experience, while also improving the quality of care itself. We’re not simply “normalizing” mental health care, we’re celebrating it.


We’re looking for a Director of Legal Affairs who is passionate about mental wellness

As Director of Legal Affairs, you will partner closely with the senior management team and perform complex legal work across Real. Working closely with the management team and outside counsel, you will manage contract and regulatory compliance, help develop and implement policies and procedures, provide research on and coordination establishing operations in new jurisdictions, ensure compliance with the organization’s governing structures (US and eventually international), advise on employment issues, take the lead in identifying and addressing potential legal issues and risks for current activities, operations, and strategic initiatives and manages litigation. 


The Director of Legal Affairs will report to the Chief Financial Officer with interim reporting to the VP of People and Operations. This role is part of the Finance, Strategy, and Business Ops team and works across all functional departments. Interaction is required with management, staff, and outside parties.


The company is based in NYC, though the role is remote


A day in the life:

  • Primarily supporting Real’s growth efforts across B2B channels, you will provide legal reviews of sales and marketing programs, initiatives and partnership contracts
  • Lead complex legal projects that span legal, business, and functional boundaries (e.g., cross geographies, subject matter areas, jurisdictions, organizations and business models)
  • Develop, assess and negotiate contracts on non-disclosure, consulting, service, terms and conditions and commercial agreements for business units across the company,
  • Manage the work of and relationships with paid outside counsel
  • Provide counsel to staff in all departments on a variety of complex legal issues. With emphasis and special attention given to the marketing, business development, content and therapy departments. 
  • Provide other general legal advice to the business and manage litigation.
  • Set the strategy and goals for the Legal function in alignment with larger organizational goals.

You've Got: 
  • 8 years of experience, including significant professional experience in-house within a startup environment
  • License to practice law in New York, with approximately 4-6 years of progressively more responsible transactional experience in corporate governance
  • Strong project management skills with attention to detail and accuracy
  • Strong teamwork and client service skills; experience exercising influence and managing change while having an open and inclusive tone; solution-oriented
  • Experience in the Healthcare industry.

Bonus points if you: 
  • Have experience with employee related matters


The base salary for this role is between $205,000 - $275,000  depending on skill set and experience level. Our compensation program is geographically-neutral, meaning that we do not adjust our pay ranges based on where you live, so this salary range applies to all candidates.


You are:

Passionate about mental wellness

  • You’re excited to improve mental healthcare and expand the number of people who have access to it.
  • You know the wellness market.
  • You care about the well-being of others.


Excited to build something from the ground up

  • You thrive in a fast-paced, scrappy start-up environment.
  • You’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
  • You’re a self-starter; you don’t need instructions to get work done.


Data-driven

  • You pull insights from data, ensuring new ideas come from member experience and utilization
  • You seek data and know how to collect more of it when needed
  • You are excited to receive feedback and grow


A team player

  • You know it takes a village.


We’re committed to your health and happiness (...which are synonymous, you know).

When deciding what benefits should look like at Real, we started by thinking long and hard about what employees need not only to work well, but to live well. Benefits impact how we act, rest, grieve, set boundaries, and take care of ourselves and others — and that means quality benefits are a fundamental part of not just a mentally well company, but a mentally well society. At Real, we want to offer our employees more than just "permission" to occasionally take a vacation or comp a therapy session. We want to give them the support and autonomy they need to feel well and maintain full lives outside of work.


Payout

  • Competitive salary, plus equity in an early-stage startup. Emphasis on “plus”—we won’t use equity to low-ball you.


Healthcare for Full-Time Employees: 

  • 100% company-funded health, vision, and dental insurance. That means no monthly premiums coming out of your paycheck. 
  • FSA plans
  • Free One Medical membership
  • Free Real membership
  • $1800 annual mental wellness stipend you can put toward therapy, psychiatry, fitness and other wellness services
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance


Retirement for Full-Time Employees

  • 401(k) — we don’t match yet, but you’ll thank us for the compound interest later.


Vacation

  • Unlimited PTO…that we actually encourage you to take, we promise.


Rest

  • Four day work weeks Monday-Thursday
  • Four-week paid sabbatical after five continuous years of work at Real.


Floating Holidays

  • Three floating holidays in addition to company-wide federal holidays so you can celebrate what’s important to you.


Grief Break

  • Real employees receive two weeks of paid time off in the event of losing a loved one. We know grief doesn’t have an end date, and we also know that “unlimited PTO” isn’t enough for most people to actually take ample time away from work. We want to support the process of grieving by naming this, and offering employees the opportunity to grieve without thinking of work.


Parenthood

  • Competitive paid parental leave and flexible return to work policy.


Autonomy

  • Flexible working environment — if you want to exercise at three PM, go for it.
  • Remote-inclusive team — whether you work from Colorado or NYC, you’re 100% part of the team.
  • Autonomous work culture. We don’t have to see a green dot on Slack to trust that you’re doing your job.


Growth at Work

  • We invest in your career. Our company's growing quickly, and we'll give you the opportunity to do the same. You'll have access to a number of professional development opportunities so that you can keep up with the company's evolving needs and grow your career along the way.


The responsibilities and duties of this position described here are representative of those an employee must perform. This is not a comprehensive list and other duties may be assigned.


We are an Equal Employment Opportunity ("EEO") Employer. It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of Real not to discriminate based on race, color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, veteran or military status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, caregiver status, unemployment status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, demotion, compensation, training, working conditions, transfer, job assignments, benefits, layoff, and termination.


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