Full-Time
Director of Legal
Updated on 9/3/2026
Courier Health
51-200 employees
SaaS platform coordinating patient services
Compensation Overview
$190k - $240k/yr
New York, NY, USA
In Person
Four days per week on-site at NYC office.
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- 8–12+ years of legal experience, ideally including meaningful time in-house at a technology or healthcare technology company
- J.D. from an accredited law school; licensed to practice law in New York or another U.S. jurisdiction
- Deep experience reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts: SaaS SOWs, MSAs, BAAs, vendor agreements, and partnership structures
- Working knowledge of HIPAA and healthcare data privacy: fluent enough to spot issues, ask the right questions, and know when to bring in specialized outside counsel
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and making sound risk calls without perfect information or a full playbook
- Ability to make complex legal concepts clear and actionable for non-legal stakeholders at every level of the organization
- A builder's mentality: you like creating systems and processes, not just reviewing individual documents
- Track record of being trusted by cross-functional partner
- Strong executive presence and comfort presenting to and advising senior leadership
- Evaluate, strengthen, and expand the frameworks, templates, and processes that let Courier Health manage its legal affairs without slowing down. From commercial agreements to data processing addenda, you would ensure that the right structures exist and that they're adopted by teams.
- Partnering across the organization to help navigate key decisions. You will be asked to be present, practical and decisive, setting up legal to be an accelerant, not a bottleneck, to decision-making.
- Serve as a sounding board for the CFO and executive team on legal risk across the business. Flag what matters, contextualize what doesn't, and help leadership make confident decisions with the information they need.
- Courier Health handles sensitive patient data on behalf of the world's leading biopharma companies, and we take that responsibility seriously. You will be accountable for ensuring the right legal and compliance frameworks are in place, working closely with specialized outside counsel on HIPAA and data privacy matters, and ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks.
- Design how legal work flows at Courier Health: intake, triage, turnaround expectations, and escalation paths. Build systems that keep legal proactive, and not reactive.
- Experience in life sciences, pharmaceutical, or digital health environments
- Familiarity with state privacy law (CCPA, CPRA) and evolving AI/data governance frameworks
- Experience supporting fundraising rounds, equity management, or board governance
- Prior experience as a company's first or sole in-house counsel
Courier Health provides a SaaS platform in biopharma that acts as an integrated command center to improve patient services. It coordinates patient touchpoints across marketing, patient services, and field reimbursement for large biopharma, specialty biotech, and rare disease organizations. The platform consolidates data into a single system of record, enabling real-time coordination, automated scheduling, and AI-driven analytics to support personalized patient engagement. Its subscription-based model plus implementation and training services aims to streamline workflows and improve patient outcomes.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$70.5M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2020
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Courier Health said 2025 customers and therapies supported grew over 400%.
- Oak HC/FT backed Courier's April 2026 Series B after the 2024 $16.5 million Series A.
- Courier claims 15% to 20% higher patient starts and 10% to 12% better persistency.
What critics are saying
- Veeva Systems and Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud already own pharma CRM buying relationships.
- PeerSpot showed Courier Health at 0.3% CRM mindshare in August 2026.
- If biopharma budgets compress, niche patient-CRM vendors get commoditized by platform incumbents.
What makes Courier Health unique
- April 2026's $50 million Series B funded Courier's biopharma patient-experience command center.
- Courier Health integrates prescriptions, benefits, prior authorization, pharmacies, payers, and providers end-to-end.
- Its 2026 marketing targets patient starts, persistency, and workflow automation for specialty therapies.
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Health Insurance
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Paid Parental Leave
Monthly healthy lifestyle stipend
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↓ -1%/PRNewswire/ -- Courier Health, the leading technology company for managing patient experiences, today announced it has raised a $50 million Series B funding...
Courier Health has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and Work-Bench. The startup, founded in 2022, has developed an AI-powered platform for biopharma companies to manage the patient journey from prescription through therapy adherence. The platform addresses significant industry challenges: more than half of prescriptions for newly launched specialty drugs never reach patients, according to IQVIA data. Courier Health's AI agents automate tasks including intake, benefits checks and prior authorisation whilst integrating fragmented data across providers, payers and pharmacies. In 2025, Courier Health increased its customer base by over 400% and doubled headcount. The company claims clients see a 15% to 20% increase in patient starts and 10% to 12% improvement in six-month persistency.
Courier Health raises $50 million Series B to revolutionize the biopharma patient experience. PR Newswire Today at 6:18am PDT NEW YORK, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Courier Health, the leading technology company for managing patient experiences, today announced it has raised a $50 million Series B funding round led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from existing investors including Norwest and Work-Bench. This latest investment will fuel continued product innovation and solidify Courier Health's position as the leading solution to orchestrate and personalize patient journeys across the life sciences industry. Despite immense clinical innovation across life sciences, efforts to engage and support prescribed patients still fall short due to siloed data, disparate systems, and poor coordination. According to the 2026 State of Patient-Centricity report, nearly 60 percent of biopharma companies consider their data fragmented or inactionable, and less than 10 percent have sufficient data maturity to leverage AI in a meaningful way. Courier Health solves these pain points by connecting data and systems related to the patient experience, applying intelligence to surface insights and proactively identify at-risk patients, and orchestrating seamless experiences across the patient journey. "Our vision is to re-write the patient experience in healthcare, starting with simplifying and coordinating complex patient journeys for those who depend on innovative medicines," said Danny Sigurdson, Founder and CEO of Courier Health. "Our partnership with Oak HC/FT provides the strategic support and capital to accelerate our mission, scale our platform and agentic AI capabilities, and continue investing in our world-class team to ensure our customers are successful. When our customers are successful, patients achieve better health outcomes, and that is our north star." Courier Health's system includes deep data integrations, intelligent workflows driven by context-rich AI, intuitive user interfaces designed specifically for market access and patient services teams, and AI agents that can execute key tasks for reliable automation and scale. Courier Health manages the end-to-end patient journey from education to patient enrollment, benefits and prior authorization, through therapy initiation and adherence. This equips biopharma teams with the visibility, control, and intelligence they need to ensure high-quality interactions with providers, pharmacies, and, most importantly, patients and their families. "Healthcare, especially life sciences, has long lacked a dedicated, purpose-built platform to manage patients," said Billy Deitch, Partner, Oak HC/FT. "True patient-centricity is often promised but rarely delivered, and Courier Health changes that narrative. They provide essential infrastructure and an incredibly thoughtful AI strategy that biopharma is excited to adopt at a rapid pace. Oak is proud to partner with Danny and his team as they redefine the standard for the patient experience." In 2025, Courier Health increased the number of customers and therapies supported on its platform by over 400% and more than doubled its headcount to meet market demand. The funding will accelerate investment in its team and product to bring its innovative technology to more customers. About Courier Health Courier Health is a New York City-based technology company on a mission to improve the patient experience for hundreds of millions of people living with a chronic condition or rare disease. The company develops and delivers the fastest-growing patient experience solution for the life sciences industry. Companies that choose Courier Health are achieving double-digit improvements to patient starts, time-to-start and ongoing adherence to life-altering therapies. As host of the invite-only Patient Innovators Summit and publisher of The State of Patient-Centricity in Biopharma report, Courier Health is backed by leading investors, including Oak HC/FT, Norwest and Work-Bench. Follow Courier Health on LinkedIn and learn more at www.courierhealth.com. About Oak HC/FT Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity firm specializing in investments in fintech and healthcare. Using partnership as a foundation, Oak HC/FT guides companies and founders at every stage, from seed to growth, to create businesses that make a measurable and lasting impact. Founded in 2014, Oak HC/FT has invested in 120 portfolio companies and has more than $7 billion in assets under management. Oak HC/FT is headquartered in Stamford, CT, with an office in San Francisco, CA. Follow Oak HC/FT on LinkedIn and X and learn more at www.oakhcft.com. SOURCE Courier Health This is a paid placement. For further inquiries, please contact PR Newswire directly.
Courier Health launches first-ever Patient Innovators Awards PR newswire NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2025.
Courier Health announced a $16.5 million Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investor Work-Bench. The funding will support continued product innovation and hiring. Learn more.