Assistant General Counsel - Public Policy

Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients.

Our enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose-built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems.

We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense.

The Role

Abridge is in the process of rolling out its ambient listening solution to healthcare systems throughout the country. We are seeing incredible results and saving hundreds of thousands of hours across our clinician users - and our clinical AI notes tool is just the beginning. As Assistant General Counsel - Public Policy Counsel, you’ll be charged with helping us think through how this breakthrough technology will intersect with the worlds of law, policy, and regulation.

What You'll Do

• Serve as Abridge’s first dedicated public policy counsel, helping to develop and sharpen the company’s positions on the impact of artificial intelligence in healthcare, and the policy surrounding the technology.

• Be an external facing point of contact for Abridge’s engagement with policymakers at the federal, state, and local level; publish policy papers and op-eds articulating the company’s positions.

• Support Abridge executives with talking points, briefing documents, and other materials.

• Provide insight and analysis on legal and policy trends to help inform decisionmaking among executives, product teams, comms, and other key functions within the company.

What You’ll Bring

• Passion for Abridge’s mission and the energy to support a fast-moving team.

• 8+ years experience in the healthcare IT regulatory space - with subject matter expertise in the applicable digital regulatory frameworks

• Track record of successfully and enthusiastically diving into the weeds of a product and learning the ins and outs of the functionality and use cases

• Ability to clearly communicate regulatory requirements to product and engineering teams without legalese, with an eye towards operationality

• Comfort with juggling a high volume of competing issues across multiple stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to work independently; interest in joining a team that prioritizes autonomy and trust

• Creativity in solving and navigating novel situations; experience in crafting new processes and language to meet the needs of a rapidly moving enterprise in a novel industry.

Ideally, You Have - Optional

• Applicable experience in government working directly for a policymaker, regulatory agency, or other body

• Published work focusing on the policy issues surrounding the use of AI in healthcare

• Familiarity and understanding of recent trends in artificial intelligence, with a specific focus on language models.

Why Work at Abridge?

• Be a part of a trailblazing, mission-driven organization that is powering deeper understanding in healthcare through AI!

• Opportunity to work and grow with talented individuals and have ownership and impact at a high-growth startup.

• Flexible/Unlimited PTO — Salaried team members can take off as much approved time off as they need, plus 13 paid holidays

• Equity — For all salaried team members

• Medical insurance — We pay 100% of the premium for you + 75% for dependents. 3 Aetna plans to choose from.

• Dental & Vision insurance — We pay 100% of the premium for you + 75% for dependents. 2 Aetna plans to choose from.

• Flexible Spending (FSA) & Health Savings (HSA) Accounts

• Learning and Development budget — $3,000 per year for coaching, courses, workshops, conferences, etc.

• 401k Plan — Contribute pre-tax dollars toward retirement savings.

• Paid Parental Leave — 16 weeks paid parental leave, for all full-time employees

• Flexible working hours — We care more about what you accomplish than what specific hours you’re working.

• Home Office Budget — We provide up to $1,600 in a one-time reimbursement to set up your home office.

• Sabbatical Leave — 30 days of paid Sabbatical Leave after 5 years of employment.

• ...Plus much more!

Life at Abridge

At Abridge, we’re driven by our mission to bring understanding and follow-through to every medical conversation. Our culture is founded on doing things the “inverse” way in a legacy system—focusing on patients, instead of the system; focusing on outcomes, instead of billing; and focusing on the end-user experience, instead of a hospital administrator's mandate.

Abridgers are engineers, scientists, designers, and health policy experts from a diverse set of backgrounds—an experiment in alchemy that helps us transform an industry dominated by EHRs and enterprise into a consumer-driven experience, one recording at a time. We believe in strong ideas, loosely held, and place a high premium on a growth mindset. We push each other to grow and expose each other to the latest in our respective fields. Whether it’s holding a PhD-level deep dive into understanding fairness and underlying bias in machine learning models, debating the merits of a Scandinavian design philosophy in our UI/UX, or writing responses for Medicare rules to influence U.S. health policy, we prioritize sharing our findings across the team and helping each other be successful.

Diversity & Inclusion

Abridge is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do. We actively welcome applicants from all backgrounds (including but not limited to race, gender, educational background, and sexual orientation).

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