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VP, Legal

6 hours, 33 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Executive
Legal Counsel
Legal
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Dutch

Dutch

Dutch provides high-quality online veterinary care, offering 24/7 access to pet treatments and prescriptions delivered directly to pet owners.

Professional Services
11-50
Founded 2021
$43M raised
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Description

  • Own and lead Dutch’s legal function across corporate, regulatory, commercial, product, privacy, employment, litigation, and compliance matters.
  • Serve as a strategic legal advisor to the CEO, executive team, and board on key business, regulatory, and risk decisions.
  • Partner with clinical, pharmacy, product, operations, marketing, finance, people, and growth teams to enable compliant and scalable execution.
  • Lead legal strategy for veterinary telemedicine, VCPR, pharmacy operations, prescribing, state-by-state requirements, and related healthcare compliance matters.
  • Support regulatory advocacy efforts to expand access to virtual veterinary care across the United States.
  • Build legal frameworks to launch new products, expand into new states, enter new business lines, and support the broader pet health platform.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including vendor, strategic partnership, pharmacy, marketing, and data/privacy contracts.
  • Advise on product and marketing initiatives, including claims review, consumer protection, advertising compliance, subscription practices, and customer disclosures.
  • Oversee corporate governance, board materials, financing support, equity matters, cap table administration, and investor-related legal work.
  • Manage employment legal matters, including policies, employee relations, offer documentation, separations, and compliance with employment laws.
  • Develop and scale internal legal processes, templates, policies, approval workflows, and playbooks.
  • Manage outside counsel across regulatory, corporate, employment, litigation, pharmacy, privacy, and other specialized areas.
  • Identify and mitigate legal and regulatory risk while helping the business move quickly.
  • Help prepare the company for future scale, including strategic transactions, financing events, audits, and potential public-company readiness.

Requirements

  • JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
  • Experience advising a regulated consumer, healthcare, telehealth, pharmacy, marketplace, subscription, fintech, insurance, or similarly complex business.
  • Strong regulatory judgment and the ability to interpret state-by-state requirements in practical, business-oriented ways.
  • Experience partnering with executive teams and advising senior leaders on high-stakes legal, regulatory, and commercial decisions.
  • Excellent commercial contract drafting and negotiation skills.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving startup environment where the legal function must be both rigorous and practical.
  • Strong understanding of privacy, marketing, consumer protection, employment, and corporate governance issues relevant to a consumer healthcare business.
  • Ability to build scalable legal processes from scratch, including templates, playbooks, workflows, and training.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex legal issues clearly to non-lawyers.
  • Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams, outside counsel, and business priorities at once.
  • High integrity, sound judgment, and a bias toward finding legally sound paths to "yes."
  • Low-ego, collaborative leadership style and a willingness to roll up your sleeves.
  • Company experience.
  • Preferred experience with telehealth, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, digital health, consumer healthcare, or healthcare marketplaces.
  • Preferred experience with VCPR, veterinary board regulations, pharmacy boards, prescribing regulations, or state healthcare regulatory frameworks.
  • Preferred experience supporting legislative, regulatory, or policy advocacy efforts.
  • Preferred experience building or scaling a legal function at a venture-backed or growth-stage company.
  • Preferred experience managing compliance programs, privacy programs, or regulated product launches across multiple states.
  • Preferred familiarity with subscription businesses, consumer marketplaces, DTC healthcare, or pet health.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation of $225,000–$275,000, plus equity and benefits.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible PTO.
  • Remote-first culture.
  • Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on pets and the people who love them.
  • Opportunity to help build one of the most important consumer healthcare companies in pet care.

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