Vice President, Legal

About evermore evermore is a technology company that administers Smart Benefits to connect people to products and services they need, when they need them, so they can live healthier lives. We partner with payers and retailers to deliver expansive benefits for things like healthy foods, OTC medications, or transportation. evermore is reinventing benefits administration so that everyone benefits with more value for each and better outcomes for all. evermore is a Series B stage company, backed by leading investors including General Catalyst, Define Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pinegrove Capital Partners, and Qiming Venture Partners. The Job at a Glance As Vice President, Legal, you will lead evermore’s legal and compliance function and serve as a senior strategic partner to the executive team. You will own legal strategy across commercial, regulatory, compliance, corporate, and employment matters, and you will be accountable for how the function supports the business as it scales. You will report to the Chief Operating Officer and work directly with the CEO, co-founders, and Board on matters that shape the company’s trajectory. evermore is executing an aggressive growth plan that includes scaling Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits, launching EBT administration across multiple states, and expanding into adjacent markets. Your function is central to that plan. Legal and compliance sit in the critical path for customer contracting, state-level EBT expansion, card program operations, and the regulatory approvals that unlock new revenue. You will own the legal workstreams behind the company’s largest strategic bets. You will lead a team of four: a Deputy General Counsel, an Associate Counsel supporting commercial transactions, a Senior Director of Compliance, and a Legal Operations Coordinator. You will also manage the company’s relationships with AmLaw 100 outside counsel firms across corporate, commercial, regulatory, and specialty matters. You will set the team’s priorities, develop its people, and build the systems, playbooks, and cross-functional relationships that let a lean legal function operate at scale. This role is for a builder who is also an operator. You are a manager and a systems thinker who creates programs, designs operating models, and builds teams that deliver. You also roll up your sleeves and do the work. You draft, you redline, you negotiate, you turn documents around. You see a function that needs structure as an opportunity, and you have a track record of standing up the playbooks, processes, and team norms that let a legal organization scale without scaling headcount. You are equally comfortable setting strategy with the executive team and sitting down to work through a difficult contract before it goes back to the counterparty. What You Will Do Working within an organization created at the intersection of health care, retail and financial technology, no two days will look the same . Typical responsibilities of the role include: Run the legal and compliance function end to end as the senior lawyer for the company, setting strategy, priorities, and standards for the team across commercial contracting, regulatory, compliance, corporate, employment, IP, privacy, and disputes. Deliver the function on budget and against defined SLAs for contract turnaround and stakeholder responsiveness. Serve as the senior legal voice to the CEO, COO, co-founders, executive team, and Board on consequential decisions, including strategic partnerships, new market entry, financing events, and material risk matters. Supervise and develop a team of four, including a Deputy General Counsel, Associate Counsel, Senior Director of Compliance, and Legal Operations Coordinator. Set clear expectations, manage performance, hire, and build a culture of independent judgment and ownership. Lead corporate governance for the company, including Board and committee support, UWCs, officer designations, equity administration coordinati