Legal Project Manager

Legal Project Manager

Virta Health is on a mission to transform type 2 diabetes and weight-loss care. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse diabetes in 100 million people.

The Legal Project Manager position is a valuable role within Virta. Reporting to the General Counsel, your work will be collaborative and cross-functional as you provide support to stakeholders, both internal and external. This is an exciting opportunity to work within the field of Legal and Compliance - to be successful in this role, there is a strong preference for someone with a legal or compliance background who has strong project management and organizational skills and a growth mindset.

Responsibilities

• Acting as first point of contact for all inbound legal and compliance queries, escalating matters as necessary to members of the legal team and tracking completion.

• Commercial contract management within Ironclad CLM, including service agreements, NDAs, BAAs, and independent contractor agreements.

• Working with the commercial team on RFIs/RFPs, vendor data security, and privacy questionnaires.

• Assisting Privacy and InfoSec on incident and breach investigations and reporting.

• Support the preparation and submission of the Company’s public regulatory filings, including state registrations and annual reports, information gathering, reporting, and record-keeping.

• Managing and collaborating on Virta’s risk assessment, hotline investigations and compliance audits.

• Coordinating and responding to internal and external audit and data requests.

• Ensure that all Legal team records are stored in secure, organized file systems to support shared knowledge and compliant record-keeping.

• Support document retention and destruction policy and legal hold process.

• Manage the Legal team internal website: upload new templates, training, forms, and guides and help create new content to support the legal support process and provide opportunities for self-service.

• Maintain corporate records and minute books for Compliance Committee, Patient Events Committee and Board meetings; assist with drafting minutes.

• Assist with maintaining corporate calendar and tracking regulatory deadlines and maintaining legal and compliance policies, including annual reviews/updates.

Requirements

• Paralegal or other legal or compliance experience in healthcare or other highly regulated industry.

• Great team player with strong interpersonal and organizational skills and excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Document management and administrative experience. If you have a basic understanding of Ironclad Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and related tools, this will be highly desirable.

• Ability to multitask; this role manages a varied workload so the ability to balance business-as-usual tasks alongside project work is important.

• Attention to detail; accuracy and precision are essential to be able to deliver quality results to our customers and stakeholders.

• An appreciation for the importance of processes and requirements, regulatory and otherwise.

Must-Haves

• Contract management experience

• Strong organizational skills

• Experience working in regulated industries (ideally healthcare)

• Ability to balance many projects at once and clearly communicate with team

Values-driven culture

Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:

• You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally

• You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same

• You prioritize positive impact over busy work

• You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience

• You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information

• You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma

• You take risks and rapidly iterate

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As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta's security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients' information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.

Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is $87,000 - $115,000. Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers.