Senior Counsel

About Pair Team

Pair Team is a public benefit company reimagining care for the safety net. As an AI-enabled medical group for Medicaid and Medicare, we deliver medical, behavioral, and social care by integrating shelters, pantries and other community-based organizations into our whole-person model. As California’s largest complex care provider, we’ve proven our impact to reduce avoidable emergency care, including a 52% and 26% reduction in ER visits and hospitalizations respectively. Once scaled nationally, our approach would save tax payers $150B per year.

With our years of experience and vast data collected, we are now building an AI platform that embeds social work agents across the safety net to truly unify our fragmented healthcare and welfare system. By scaling our country’s frontline medical and social services workforce, we aim to bring high-touch care to everyone.

At Pair Team , we’re not just delivering care—we’re transforming it. We’re building a future where high-touch, community-driven care is accessible to everyone, especially the most underserved.

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Forbes: For Pair Team , Accessibility Is About Delivering Healthcare To Those Who Need It The Most

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TechCrunch: Building for Medicaid’s regulatory moment with Neil Batlivala from Pair Team

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Journal of General Internal Medicine: A Novel Intervention for Medicaid Beneficiaries with Complex Needs

About the Opportunity

We're hiring a Senior Legal Counsel to help Pair Team grow and scale responsibly. This is an opportunity to be the second lawyer in the legal department and build inside a fast-moving healthcare company operating at the center of Medicaid and Medicare high needs population care management.

This role reports directly to the Head of Legal.
What You’ll Do
Legal & Regulatory Guidance

- Lead advisor on corporate, healthcare regulatory, litigation, commercial, product, employment, and privacy matters.

- Monitor regulatory developments and translate their impact into clear, actionable guidance for product, clinical, and operations teams.

- Collaborate with operational, clinical and marketing leaders to ensure adherence to applicable laws and regulations (e.g. HIPAA, Anti-Kickback, Corporate Practice of Medicine).

- Understand and provide business friendly guidance on use and impact of artificial intelligence and other technologies in healthcare programs.

Commercial Strategy & Contracting

- Work on contract development and negotiation—drafting, redlining, and advising on deal terms for health plans, vendors, and partners.

- Draft templates and playbooks for contracting with partners, including service agreements, BAAs, NDAs, and other agreements..

- Provide legal and regulatory guidance related to Medicaid, Medicare, value-based care, and product development to support commercial strategy.

Risk Identification & Building Out Legal Function

- Act as a trusted advisor to business, product, and clinical teams — flagging legal risks early and helping design compliant solutions rather than blocking progress.

- Help develop legal processes and policies that support risk mitigation, compliance, and business enablement.

- Effectively manage outside counsel work and spend.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner with clinical operations on care delivery compliance, including documentation standards, authorization requirements, and billing compliance.

- Collaborate with the People team on compliance training, onboarding, and workforce policy development.

- Support company litigation needs.

- Represent Pair Team professionally and compliantly in partner, health plan, and regulatory conversations.

- Other duties as needed.

What You’ll Need

- 5+ years of healthcare legal experience with direct exposure to federal programs (Medicare, Medicaid, or both) and the regulatory frameworks governing them (CMS, OIG, HIPAA, FWA).

- 3+ years legal experience at a digital health company, health plan, provider, or managed care org