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Managing Product Counsel

Thatch· Legal
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Remote$200k - $230kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Embedded product counsel role advising Product, Engineering, and Design to scope, design, and launch products within Thatch's platformed healthcare system, focusing on regulatory alignment, disclosures, and scalable legal processes.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as embedded counsel to Product, Engineering, and Design from early scoping through launch, across new features, platform integrations, and partner-facing surfaces reporting directly to the CLO
  • Advise on the regulatory architecture of the product itself: ICHRA and IRS substantiation rules, ERISA, ACA, and the producer licensing and TPA obligations that flow through our regulated subsidiaries–rules that are constantly evolving
  • Partner with our Compliance team on product-facing regulatory review, but you'll own the pre-launch design and disclosure judgment
  • Review in-product disclosures, onboarding and enrollment flows, and product marketing
  • Work on the legal surfaces customers actually touch: terms of service, user agreements, consents and authorizations, notices, and disclosures
  • Counsel on privacy, data use, and AI-powered features, including building the review process rather than answering one-offs
  • Identify protectable intellectual property assets and work with IP counsel to protect it
  • Build systems that scale: launch checklists, playbooks, self-serve guidance, and training, so teams can move fast without a lawyer in the room for every decision
  • Work with others to set the standard for how product legal work gets done at Thatch, and work closely with others on the legal team as the function grows
  • Partner with commercial counsel where product decisions create downstream contractual commitments to carriers, partners, or customers
  • During your first six months you’ll (a) be embedded with Product and Engineering, teams bring you in at design rather than at launch review; (b) have written, shared standards for product-facing regulatory reviews; and (c) have playbooks to focus work on novel issues

Qualifications

  • JD from an accredited law school with 9+ years of legal practice, including meaningful in-house time supporting Product and Engineering teams
  • Experience advising on regulated consumer products where the compliance obligation is designed into the product rather than papered around it
  • Knowledge of health insurance, employee benefits, financial services, or a comparably regulated environment
  • Ability to read a product spec, data flow, or design file and identify the legal issue without being walked through it
  • Comfort making and documenting risk calls where the regulatory answer is unsettled, with a clear sense of which risks are worth slowing a launch for
  • Track record of building legal processes, frameworks, and operations in startup or high-growth environments
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach with cross-functional teams, especially engineers and PMs
  • Ability and willingness to lead, even if you’re not managing
  • Sense of humor (lawyer jokes are a good place to start)

Skills

Required:Regulatory compliance (health insurance/employee benefits)Product and privacy governance
Nice to have:IP and data protection
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Thatch

Health benefits from the future

Thatch is an all-in-one platform that makes it easy to offer the most personalized healthcare experience to your employees using an ICHRA.

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