B2B - Fractional Healthcare Counsel

About CookUnity: Food has lost its soul to modern convenience. And with it, it has lost the power to nourish, inspire, and connect us. So in 2018, CookUnity was founded as the first-of-its-kind platform that connects the world with the source of truly great food: chefs. Today, CookUnity delivers 50 million meals a year from the industry’s best chefs to homes all over the country. Fresh. Ready-to-eat. And crafted with the passion that nourishes body and soul. Unwilling to stop there, CookUnity is expanding beyond delivery to become an ever-innovating marketplace focused on our singular mission: empower Chefs to nourish the world. If that mission has you hungry in more ways than one, you’ve found the right job posting. About the Team: The B2B team operates like a startup within CookUnity — an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and innovative team that is charting a bold new path by bringing these same exceptional culinary experiences to businesses, organizations, and their employees. We sell smart fridge deployments, employee meal programs, and workplace food solutions to some of the most recognizable companies in the country. We're scaling fast and need a leader who can run with us. The role: We are hiring a [Fractional] Healthcare & Commercial Counsel to support the rapid growth of our B2B line of business. This role is designed for an experienced healthcare attorney who wants meaningful, substantive work [without a full-time commitment]. You will be the embedded legal partner for our B2B commercial team — advising on all matters related to the B2B function, from commercial matters to healthcare regulatory matters — while reporting into and collaborating closely with the General Counsel. This is a non-litigation role focused on advisory, transactional, commercial, and compliance work. What You’ll Do Serve as the day-to-day healthcare advisor to the B2B team on deals, product launches, and operational questions, including those involving healthcare counterparties (payors, providers, MA plans, MCOs, digital health, employer health programs, and similar). Draft, review, and negotiate B2B contracts — master services agreements, statements of work, BAAs, data use agreements, and program-specific addenda — against CookUnity’s playbook. Lead HIPAA compliance for the B2B line: structure Business Associate Agreements, advise on permitted uses and disclosures of PHI, evaluate data flows, and partner with security, product, and engineering on safeguards and minimum-necessary analysis. Advise on Food is Medicine, Medically Tailored Meals, supplemental benefits (including Medicare Advantage SSBCI and SNP frameworks), Medicaid 1115 waivers, and similar healthcare-funded meal programs. Spot-check exposure under fraud and abuse laws (Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark, beneficiary inducement, state analogs) and elevate complex issues to the GC and outside counsel as appropriate. Support state licensure, telehealth-adjacent, and food-as-medicine regulatory questions as they arise. Help build durable infrastructure: templates, playbooks, training, and internal guidance that scale with the B2B team. Partner with the GC on escalations, novel issues, and risk framing for the executive team. What You’ll Bring J.D. and active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction; in good standing. Minimum 5 years of post-J.D. experience with a substantive focus on healthcare regulatory, healthcare transactional and general commercial matters. Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills in a commercial context. Demonstrated expertise in HIPAA / HITECH (Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules) — including drafting and negotiating BAAs, advising on PHI use cases, and counseling on incident response. Working familiarity with one or more of: Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits (SSBCI / SNP), Medicaid managed care, 1115 waivers, Food is Medicine / Medically Tailored Meals frameworks, state insurance and licensure regimes. Comfortable operating as a [fractional, embedded] legal partner — highly responsive, organized, and able to triage independently. Excellent judgment on when to decide, when to escalate, and when to bring in outside specialists. Nice to Have Combination of reputable law firm training (with a preference for healthcare regulatory or healthcare transactions practice) and prior in-house experience (again, with a preference for experience at a healthcare company — payor, provider, digital health, PBM, MA plan, or similarly regulated organization). Experience supporting a B2B sales motion. Familiarity with state privacy laws (CCPA/CPRA, Washington My Health My Data Act, and similar) as they intersect with health data. Prior experience advising a food, nutrition, or consumer health company. Engagement Details [Independent contractor (1099) engagement with CookUnity, Inc.] Approximately 10–20 hours per week, with flexibility to flex up for deal cycles and down during quieter periods, by mutual agreement. Fully remote within the United States; occasional video meetings during U.S. business hours. Compensation: competitive hourly rate, commensurate with experience. Conflicts: candidates must be able to confirm no conflicts with CookUnity’s B2B counterparties and customers. Learn More About CookUnity We believe great leadership starts with alignment on vision, values, and ways of working. To give you deeper insight into who we are and what we’re looking for, we invite you to explore:  CookUnity's Leadership Principles  – The values and behaviors that guide how we operate, collaborate, and scale. We hope this provides valuable insight into our culture and product vision. If this excites you, we’d love to connect! Why CookUnity? CookUnity is the first chef-to-consumer marketplace, and through CookUnity Business , we’re redefining how companies and healthcare organizations nourish their people. From  AI-powered Fraîc