Senior Legal Counsel - Stedi

We're building a new healthcare clearinghouse

Stedi is the only headless clearinghouse and RCM engine. Headless means every part of our product is accessible via API. Developers and AI agents build their own interface on top of it. By offering modern, AI-ready APIs alongside traditional real-time and batch EDI processes, we enable both healthcare technology businesses and established players to exchange mission-critical transactions. Our clearinghouse product and customer-first approach have set us apart.

Stedi has $142 million in funding from top investors like Stripe, Addition, USV, Bloomberg Beta, First Round Capital, and more.

What we’re looking for

Stedi is hiring a Senior Legal Counsel to sit at the center of how we grow. Every new customer, payer connection, and partnership runs through a contract, and you’ll own the bulk of that deal flow. Your counterparties will range from fast-moving healthtech startups to established industry players and national payers. Healthtech experience is a plus, but not required – we value strong legal judgment, curiosity, and the ability to learn a new industry quickly.

We ship new products constantly, and the deals that follow bring new structures, new pricing models, and meaningful HIPAA and data-use considerations. You’ll be close to all of it. As the business continues to grow, so will the role, and we expect you to take on new areas as needs arise and as your interests take you.

You’ll join a small, effective Legal team with a broad mandate. We keep up with a fast-growing, highly regulated business by investing in good systems and tools (AI among them), so our time goes to the work that takes a lawyer’s judgment. That means every person on the team has outsized ownership and impact, and you’ll help improve the tools as well as use them.

What you’ll do

• Own customer contracting across the full lifecycle, from first redline through signature, amendments, assignments, and renewals.
• Negotiate the complex commercial terms and structures that come with a fast-growing, highly regulated business.
• Drive payer trading partner agreements and key vendor agreements to close quickly and within our risk profile while maintaining our rigorous compliance standards.
• Use AI and other technology to build and maintain the contracting engine, identifying and automating the repeatable, rules-based parts of contracting and reserving lawyer time for judgment.
• Track patterns across negotiations and turn them into sharper standard positions, better templates, and fewer escalations.
• Be the go-to resource for Sales and Account Management, fielding day-to-day questions and coaching the team on our positions.
• Take on new areas based on interest and business need as Stedi and the Legal team grow.

Who you are

• Bar-admitted, with several years of commercial contracting, transactional, or regulatory counseling experience.
• Handled complex legal matters end to end in BigLaw, at a high-growth company, or both.
• Experienced with using AI tools, CLM platforms, or other technology to make legal work faster and better.
• Able to explain complex issues in plain language, write clearly, and communicate confidently with diverse stakeholders.
• Comfortable with high-volume work, ambiguity, and shifting priorities while maintaining high quality.
• Possess strong business acumen to blend legal rigor with strategic persuasion.
• A generalist at heart who prefers to figure out unfamiliar topics rather than refer them out.
• Move fast, operate with precision, and follow through until the job is done.