Compliance Officer (Lawyer) - Remote - #35040

An exciting opportunity for a Compliance Officer to lead U.S. healthcare regulatory compliance, ensuring the platform stays aligned with federal and state requirements. This role involves monitoring regulatory changes, managing risk, and translating complex laws into clear processes while working closely with cross-functional teams to drive accuracy and compliance in a fast-paced environment.

Company Profile

Our client is the leading platform connecting Nurse Practitioners (NPs) with collaborating physicians across the United States. Their service streamlines an often-complex process, enabling NPs to quickly, affordably, and confidently find physician collaborators to meet state requirements and launch their practices.

The company is profitable, founder-led, and rapidly growing, currently supporting 1,300+ active providers across the US, offering both strong scale and meaningful impact in the healthcare space.

Overall purpose and responsibilities of the role

As a Compliance Officer, you will be responsible for ensuring the platform’s compliance with U.S. federal and state regulations by monitoring regulatory changes, interpreting legal requirements, and translating them into clear processes, controls, and workflows.

You will manage compliance programs, oversee risk and credentialing requirements, support contract and documentation compliance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain accuracy, mitigate risks, and drive continuous improvement.

Regulatory Monitoring and Change Management

Monitor state-by-state NP scope of practice laws and requirements.

Track updates from Boards and legislative bodies.

Maintain a regulatory change log and alert system

Regulatory Accuracy and Content Ownership

Maintain a centralized repository of state requirements.

Validate against primary sources.

Conduct periodic audits.

Compliance Program and Risk Management

Build scalable compliance framework.

Maintain risk register and mitigation plans.

Provider Compliance and Credentialing Oversight

Conduct license and DEA verification.

Monitor onboarding compliance requirements.

Contracting and Documentation Compliance

Maintain compliant agreement templates.

Ensure state-specific requirements are reflected.

Cross-Functional Enablement

Support Product, Ops, and Growth teams.

Translate regulations into workflows.

Audit, Reporting and Continuous Improvement

Report on compliance KPIs.

Conduct audits and improvements.

Key Deliverables (First 60–120 Days)

Validated state regulatory database.

Regulatory monitoring system.

Compliance SOPs.

License tracking system.

Risk assessment roadmap.

Others

The role is a specialist individual contributor position, with approximately 60% research and 40% operations at the outset, and no direct reports.

Contract management involves approximately 60 contracts that currently need updating.

Collaboration with the Executive, Operations, Sales, and Growth teams, as well as presenting and communicating regulatory changes across the organization.

Requirements

Law degree holder with at least 2 years of experience practicing as a lawyer, preferably within a law firm environment.

Experience in compliance, contract review, legal documentation, or regulatory-related work is highly preferred.

Experience in Healthcare Compliance or U.S. healthcare regulations is highly advantageous, but not required.

Strong understanding of compliance principles and contract handling.

Ability to interpret contracts and ensure regulatory compliance.

Tech savvy, especially in spreadsheets for data management, tracking, and reporting.

Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate ideas.

Required Skills and Traits

• Attention to detail; disciplined documentation habits
• Regulatory interpretation
• Risk management

Communication

Accountability

• Strong research capabilities
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively in team-based environments
• High learning agility with the ability to quickly adapt
• Job type: Permanent
• Emp type: Full-time
• Schedule: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST

Location: Work From Home

Industry: Healthcare

Expertise: Compliance Officer

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