Director of Legal

About us:

Founded in 2017 by Carolyn Witte and Felicity Yost, Tia is the modern medical home for women. We are trailblazing a new paradigm for women’s healthcare that treats women as whole people vs. parts or life stages.  Blending in-person and virtual care services, Tia’s “Whole Woman, Whole Life” care model fuses gynecology, primary care, mental health and evidence-based wellness services to treat women comprehensively. By making women’s health higher quality and lower cost, Tia makes women healthier, providers happier, and the business of care delivery stronger — setting a new standard of care for women everywhere.

Tia has raised more than $132 Million in venture capital funding to date, including a recent $100 Million Series B investment, one of the largest early-stage rounds ever for a healthcare company focused on women. Tia has ambitious plans to scale its “whole-woman, whole-life” model to more than 100,000 women by 2023. We’ll do this by growing virtual and in-person operations in existing and new markets while expanding its service lines to care for women throughout their entire lives -- from puberty to menopause. Since launching in 2017, Tia has grown to serve thousands of women aged 18-80 with blended in-person and virtual care in New York City, Los Angeles, Phoenix and soon San Francisco. 

We’re building a world class team to reimagine women’s healthcare. We’re an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, designers, technologists and operators who have seen firsthand how broken the healthcare system is for women. We’re united by a powerful mission to enable every woman to achieve optimal health, as defined by herself, as well as a shared set of values and principles that define our business, products, and culture. 

Our company values: 

• Health & Wellbeing: We believe that health & wellbeing is a fundamental human need and right. We prioritize the health & wellbeing of our employees and their families.
• Compassion: We believe that compassion is as important as information and care itself. We imbue compassion into our care, leadership, and communication.
• Individual Agency: We believe that every person has a responsibility to enact their agency for the betterment of themselves and others. We encourage all employees to call out problems and advocate for solutions.
• Collaboration: We believe that collaboration engenders creativity and outsized impact more than hyper-specialized or individualistic approaches to solving problems. We believe collaboration fosters different perspectives, experiences, and skillsets.
• Aspirational Thinking: We believe that aspirational thinking leads to higher quality work and transformative outcomes. We encourage all employees to think through problems and reach for solutions that raise the bar.

Role Title: In-House Counsel

Manager: Chief Product & Operating Officer

Role Summary: 

Tia is a rapidly scaling, innovative, venture-backed women’s healthcare company on a mission to transform  the way women access, use and benefit from healthcare. Tia blends data-driven technology with a holistic, “multiple tools in the toolkit” care philosophy all unified under a big, bold sex-positive, authentically female brand. Tia is building a new platform for women’s care that combines brick-and-mortar clinics with virtual care services, content, community, and care coordination. Currently we have operations in NYC, LA, PHX, SF, with sights on opening several new markets in the coming months. 

From early days we’ve recognized that in order to build differentiated products in healthcare, we need to marry technology, operations and programming / businessline thinking together; we also recognized that we need a blend of traditional and non-traditional healthcare backgrounds. 

About the Role:

You will be joining Tia as the first full-time, in-house legal hire -- and at a critical moment in  the company’s growth trajectory. We have just closed our series B financing and have a large mandate to scale broadly across the country and introduce many new servicelines. This role will be instrumental in not only setting us up to scale effectively, but also in building the in-house legal team. 

You will report to Tia’s co-founder and Chief Product & Operating Officer. We are seeking a deeply thoughtful, hardworking, emotionally intelligent, organized, and pragmatic attorney who is excited to bring their experience to support our growing business.   

You are a self-starter who has long wondered what it would be like to get more exposed to the business side. You’ve been craving the opportunity to do more than advise -- you’re looking to have a meaningful, deep and lasting impact on a company’s operations. You’re also at a stage in your career where you enjoy mentorship and working with more junior employees to help them problem solve.  You are a pragmatic, “get it done” type who finds their way through ambiguity and a heavy workload with organization, documentation, and avid proactive transparency. You are very solutions focused, and want to see a team move forward daily. 

You’re motivated by the opportunity to work in an innovative healthcare company that is completely redesigning healthcare for women, wanting to put your weight behind a mission that will have meaningful impact for women. You are dually motivated by intersection of tech and healthcare, and the evolving regulatory landscape around virtual care. You are energized by the ambiguity that this work will bring. 

You thrive in “task switching” environments -- you enjoy hoping between various contexts -- from real estate to employment law to corporate; you can thrive in managing multiple different external legal teams, 

You value your role in educating internal teams about your legal perspective, how to evaluate risk and giving tools to the org more broadly to be their own legal decision makers. 

Requirements for the Role:

• Law Degree (J.D.) from an accredited law school
• Admission to one state bar in good standing, with a preference for California or New York 
• At least 8 years of practicing experience 

How We Define Success:

• Supporting the organization on risk management and compliance with applicable laws, including those impacting healthcare 
• Can direct and manage all external legal counsel, including negotiating pricing and alternative fee structures
• Provide legal support for the Tia executive team
• Creates an internal reporting structure to foster a culture of compliance within the organization, in a way that builds trust and strong working relationships
• Is able to be a thought partner and bring creative solutions across the organization 
• Builds the legal team to ensure that we are able to consistently meet the company’s needs as we scale

Nice to Have, But Not Required:

• Experience in healthcare law, including regulatory and transactional matters
• Experience in an in-house setting
• Experience drafting and reviewing contracts
• Experience with cap table management and other corporate “start up” matters

• Unlimited vacation
• Free Tia membership
• Competitive stock option package
• $300 one-time WFH stipend
• $50/month phone and internet reimbursement 
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401k program (no matching at this time)
• Top of the line 13” Macbook Pro 
• Travel stipend for team off-sites

This position may require attendance at company and team off-sites and is subject the Company’s vaccine requirement, as permitted by law and subject to reasonable accommodation.

Tia is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users and patients. We strongly encourage people of color and members of the LGBTQ community to apply.

If you are committed to collaborative problem solving, creating high-quality and user-centric products, and want to make waves in women's healthcare, join us!